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This Notice explains how The Association of Professional Social Compliance Auditors (“APSCA” “us”, “we”), uses cookies and other tracking technologies through our website (www.theapsca.org). This is to be read alongside our Privacy Notice which explains how we process personal information. You can choose to reject our cookies. If you have accepted but then decide to reject our use of cookies, please disable them following the guidance below.
1. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, if you agree. They contain details of your browsing history on the website and distinguish you from other users. Cookies send data back to the originating website on each subsequent visit or allow another website to recognize the cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device and, for instance, remember your preferences and generally improve your online user experience.
Although this notice refers to the general term ‘cookie’, it also applies to similar tracking technologies that we use (such as ‘web beacons’, ‘clear GIFs’ and ‘pixel tags’).
You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.
2. Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies to:
• let you navigate and do things on our website. In other words, some cookies are necessary for our website to function.
• collect statistics – the information collected by cookies enables us to improve the website through usage figures and patterns. For example, to see which pages of the website are the most popular and how users are interacting with them.
• analyze how individuals interact with us so we can improve our services.
• suggest content for you based on the pages of our website you have previously visited.
3. Which cookies do we use?
We use the following cookies:
• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region), if applicable.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Name of cookie | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
SAPISID | YouTube (Google) | The “SAPISID” cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | Persistent Expires after 2 years |
APISID | Youtube (Google) | The “APISID” cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | Persistent Expires anytime between 6 months to 10 years. |
SID | Youtube (Google) | The “SID” cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | Persistent Expires anytime between 6 months to 10 years. |
SSID | Youtube (Google) | The “SSID” cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | Persistent Expires anytime between 6 months to 10 years. |
HSID | Double Click (Google) | The “HSID” 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. | Persistent Expires after 1 year |
_gcl_au | Google Adsense | To store and track conversions | Persistent Expires after 3 months. |
mkjs_group_id | Could Not Locate | Could Not Locate | Could Not Locate |
NID | Youtube | The “NID” cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website.
| Persistent Expires anytime between 6 months to 10 years.
|
1p_JAR | Google Ads | Marketing/ Tracking | 1 Month |
ajs_user_id | Atlassian | Unknown | At least one session |
ajs_anonymous_id | Atlassian | Statistics To store last visit | 1 Year |
_gid | Google Analytics | The “_gid” cookie is part of Google Universal Analytics and is primarily used to track visits to any site which uses Google Analytics.
| Persistent Expires after 2 years
|
OTZ | Google Analytics | The “OTZ” cookie is used by Google analytics to track website traffic information
| Persistent Expires after 1 month |
wordpress_test_cookie | WordPress | Functional
| Session |
_ga | Google Analytics | The “_ga” cookie is used to determine unique visitors to the site and it is updated with each page view. Additionally, this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both the validity and accessibility of the cookie as an extra security measure.
| Persistent 2 years from set/ update |
PHPSESSID | PHP | Functional
To provide functions across pages | Session |
cookieconsent_status | Unknown | Functional
to store cookie consent preferences.
| At least one session |
_uetvid | Bing Ads | Marketing/ Tracking
to store and track visits across websites.
| 16 Days |
__Secure-1PSIDCC | Cookie required to use website options and services | 1 year | |
__Secure-3PSID | These cookies are used to deliver ads that are more relevant to you and your interests | 2 years | |
__Secure-1PSID | Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | 2 years | |
__Secure-1PAPISID | Targeting cookie. Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. | 2 years | |
__Secure-3PAPISID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting. | 2 years | |
__Secure-3PSIDCC | Relative to Google Recaptcha – These Google security cookies help to authenticate the user, prevent fraudulent use of login information and protect user data from access by unauthorised persons. | 6 months | |
AEC | Used to prevent spam, fraud and abuse. Ensures that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites | 6 months | |
_gat_UA-113705788-1 | Google Analytics | 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. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | Functional 1minute |
wp-settings-time- | Wordpress | This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year |
nsc_bar_cs_done | Own Cookie | Cookie to save cookie consent preferences | 1year |
mkjs_user_id |
| Used to identify unique users and performance indicators associated with those users, | 1 year |
wp-settings-6 | WordPress | WordPress uses this cookie to customize your view of the admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year |
Please note
that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers
of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no
control. These cookies are likely to be
analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on
your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
However, if you use your browser settings to block
all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to
access all or parts of our site.
1.
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If you do not accept our use of cookies as
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3.
Updates to this notice
We may update this notice and so we recommend
that you check this notice regularly. We aim to notify you of any significant
changes by way of a notice on our website or by contacting you directly when
reasonably possible.
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