By continuing to use our Sites, you are agreeing to our use of cookies in the manner described in this policy.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree to our use of cookies, the file is added and the cookie helps us analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
Cookies are an extremely common technology for remembering certain information about a visitor to a website. The vast majority of websites currently make use of cookies and they are commonly used for a wide range of tasks.
The use of cookies help us to provide you with a better website experience by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and, similarly, which pages you do not find useful. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
How do I control/disable cookies?
You can opt-out of each cookie category (except strictly necessary cookies) by clicking on the button below:
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies for the following purposes:
Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Sites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site, or make use of our e-commerce service.
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Cookie Name |
Description |
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equivo.com |
_dc_gtm_UA-xxxxxxxx |
This cookie is associated with sites using Google Tag Manager to load other scripts and code into a page. Where it is used it may be regarded as Strictly Necessary as without it, other scripts may not function correctly. The end of the name is a unique number which is also an identifier for an associated Google Analytics account. |
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www.equivo.com |
XSRF-TOKEN |
This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. |
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www.equivo.com |
__RequestVerificationToken |
This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. |
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www.equivo.com |
ARRAffinity |
This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. |
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www.equivo.com |
ASP.NET_SessionId |
General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. |
Analytical cookies
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Sites work, for example, by ensuring that users find the particular service or member of staff they are looking for easily.
Host |
Cookie Name |
Description |
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www.equivo.com |
_gid |
Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users/visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analysed. Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics. |
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www.equivo.com |
_ga |
Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users/visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analysed. Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics. |
Functionality cookies
These are used to recognise you when you return to our Sites and to embed functionality from third party services. This enables us to tailor our content specifically for you and remember your preferences.
Host |
Cookie Name |
Description |
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livechatinc.com |
__livechat |
This domain is owned by LiveChat Inc. a USA based company that provides online chat software to website owners, enabling them to engage in live text based conversations with their visitors. |
Advertising cookies
These cookies record your visit to our Sites, the pages you have visited on our Sites and others and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the advertising displayed to you more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Host |
Cookie Name |
Description |
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www.facebook.com |
__livechat |
This domain is owned by Facebook, which is the world's largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies. |
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facebook.com |
fr |
Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising. |