Online Links and Cookie Statement
Cookie Policy
The following statement explains the Advance policy regarding the personal information we collect about you when you are online. This statement should be read in conjunction with the Advance Privacy Notice.
- Statement of intent From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address etc.) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include job applications, joining mailing lists and requests for information about our services. By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Advance to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with Advance’s Privacy Notice. Our services are designed to give you the information that you want to receive. Advance will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
- Information on visitors During the course of any visit to the Advance website, the pages you see, along with something called a cookie, are downloaded to your computer. Most, if not all, websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Cookies
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file which is placed on your computer's hard drive when you visit a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the site owners, such as which pages you find useful or not. A web browser normally deletes session cookies when it quits. A cookie does not give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. Cookies are used on this site to maintain functionality as you move between pages.
How we use cookies
Our website uses first party cookies, which allow us to distinguish you from other users of the website. They maintain functionality as you move between pages and help us to improve our site. We also use some widely-used third-party social media plugins as marketing tools, and to provide convenience tools for our visitors, which create cookies.
|
Cookie
|
Name
|
Purpose
|
More Information
|
|
Browser Session
|
ASP.NET_SessionId
|
This cookie is automatically set when you land on the website. It enables functionality between pages and is essential for parts of the site to operate (for example, the Login or Shopping Cart function cannot work without it).
It is held temporarily and is deleted when you close your web browser. It does not contain personally identifiable information and is anonymous.
|
Visit the Microsoft website.
|
|
Google Analytics
|
- __utma – it ascertains the number of times a visitor has been to the web site. It expires after 2 years.
- _utmb - it detects when a unique user session has started. It expires after 30 minutes.
- _utmc – it determines when to create a new session for a website visitor. It’s a session cookie and expires when you exit the browser.
- _utmz – it tracks how you found us and calculates traffic & navigation within the website. It expires after 6 months.
|
These cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us to count the number of visitors, which pages they visited and where they have come from, so we can improve the way our website works.
The cookies collect information in an anonymous form. We report on this activity in aggregate, and use this information solely for the purposes of monitoring and improving our website.
|
More details on the cookies set by Google Analytics: Google Code
An overview of Google’s Privacy Policy
To opt out of Google Analytics, use their Opt Out Tool
|
How to manage your cookies
Cookies are sent to your browser by a website and then stored in the cookies directory of your device. To check and update your cookies settings, you will need to know what browser you are using and what version of it you have. You can usually find this out by opening the browser (just as if you were going to use the internet) and then clicking on 'Help' and then 'About'.
To find out how to allow, block, delete and manage the cookies on all standard web browsers, go to www.allaboutcookies.org and select the browser and version you are using. You'll also find information about how to delete cookies from your computer.
If you choose to have your browsers refuse cookies, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of this website.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
www.advanceuk.org is a service provided by Advance Housing & Support Ltd.