Use of cookies by The Glass and Glazing Federation
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
Cookie | Name | Purpose |
Bing Advertising | D | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
Bing Advertising | MUID | This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded Microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking. |
Bing Advertising | MUIDB | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
Facebook Advertising | _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
Facebook Advertising | fr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
Google Advertising | 1P_JAR | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
Google Advertising | ANID | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
Google Advertising | APISID | This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. |
Google Advertising | DSID | This cookie is set to note your specific user identity. It contains a hashed/encrypted unique ID. |
Google Advertising | HSID | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. |
Google Advertising | IDE | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
Google Advertising | NID | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to help build a profile of your interests and show you relevant ads on other sites. |
Google Advertising | SAPISID | This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. |
Google Advertising | SID | This is used for session state management. |
Google Advertising | SIDCC | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
Google Advertising | SSID | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
Google Advertising | UULE | “This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.” |
Twitter Advertising | personalization_id | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
Universal Google Analytics | _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
Universal Google Analytics | _gali | Google Analytics – Used to distinguish users. |
Universal Google Analytics | _gat | This cookie name is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. |
Universal Google Analytics | _gat_UA-66894212-1 | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. A variation of the _gat cookie used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
Universal Google Analytics | _gid | This cookie is used to store and update a unique value for each page visited. |
Visual Website Optimiser UI Experience Tool | _vwo_uuid_v2 | This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages is used to track behaviour to measure the performance of different page versions. |
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