Privacy and Cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
- First-party cookies (cookies set by us)
- Third-party cookies (cookies set by other sites through our pages)
- How to control and delete cookies
- Personal data
What are cookies?
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
- analysing anonymous data to help us understand how people interact with our services so we can make them better
First-party cookies (cookies set by us)
These are cookies set by Bureaucloud or Be Specific Consulting’s web domains known as 'first-party' cookies. Some are necessary to the functionality of the site, others provide information to us that we analyse to monitor and improve the site. These first-party cookies do not store or collect any personal information or anything that make you personally identifiable to us. Typically, the cookies generate a random, unique number to store information about a user.
Cookies for managing your current visit
civicAllowCookies
- Purpose: to allow the visitor to turn off the cookie information. A cookie is set that will remember the chosen cookie opt-out preference for the user's subsequent visits
- Data stored by cookie: a flag set for 'true'
- Duration of cookie: 3 months
- Where it is used: every page of the site
- Impact on user’s experience of the site: if the preference is not changed, the visitor will use cookies throughout the site. The “Civic” triangle will be visible. When the preference is set to opt-out, this function uses one cookie to prevent other cookie from being used.
Ecommerce cookies for http://www.bureaucloud.com:
The following cookies are used to deliver the shopping cart functionality. They are required in order for the ecommerce software to place any orders.
Whoson
- Purpose: Live Chat System
- Content: Unique ID
- Duration of cookie: 2020
- Purpose: Ascertains your country to deliver correct currency
- Content: Your country and currency
- Duration of cookie: On Exit
- Purpose: Tracks your visit to our website
- Content: Unique ID
- Duration of cookie: On Exit
- Purpose: Temporary cookie generated to test if cookies are enabled on the visitors browser.
- Content: TestCookies=ACTIVE&RS=FALSE&logged_in=USERNAME&ServerID=***
- Duration of cookie: 72 hours
- Purpose: Stores a unique reference to visitors cart contents. Stores authentication details for customer logged in section
- Content: Unique ID
- Duration of cookie: On Exit
- Purpose: Stores a reference to the visitors order number after an order has been generated.
- Content: Unique ID
- Duration of cookie: On Exit
Cookies for measuring website usage
Google Analytics cookies: _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmv, _utmd,_utmz
- Purpose: to record how many people are using the website and how they move around the site once they've arrived. Google's privacy policy
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Data stored by cookies:
- _utma stores each user’s number of visits, time of the first visit, the previous visit and the current visit
- _utmb and _utmc checks how long a visitor stays on the site: when a visit starts and ends
- _utmz tracks where a visitor came from (search engine, search keyword, link)
- _utmv and _utmd track visitor journeys through the site and classifies them into groups
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Duration of cookies:
- _utma expires two years after your last visit to this site
- _utmb expires 30 minutes after your visit, or after 30 minutes of inactivity
- _utmc expires at the end of a session (when you close your browser)
- _utmz expires six months after it was last set
- _utmv (not set) expires immediately
- _utmd (not set) expires immediately
- Where it is used: all pages of Be Specific Consulting website and Be Specific Consulting blogs
- Impact on user’s experience of the site: none
Third-party cookies (cookies set by other websites through our pages)
Social media cookies
Some cookies are served by an external service when you use a page on our site, known as 'third-party' cookies. For example, on a number of pages we use 'plug ins' or embedded media such as YouTube videos. These cookies are specific to the third-party site domain - the data stored in them can be seen and managed by the third party, not by us. Although we can control whether we use the third-party services within our websites we do not have control over the cookies themselves. It is not always possible to identify precisely the information that the cookies store.
Follow us, Share (Add this) Facebook cookies: reg_ext_ref, reg_fb_gate, reg_fb_ref
- Purpose: to allow you to subscribe to Be Specific Consulting social media channels or share Be Specific Consulting content via Facebook. These cookies track registration effectiveness by recording how the user came to Facebook and are set when the browser is either not a Facebook user or is not logged in to Facebook. Add this Privacy Policy
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Data stored by cookies:
- reg_ext_ref: Follow us...Facebook cookie stores the external referrer, i.e. the Be Specific Consulting web page address from which Facebook was accessed
- reg_fb_gate: Share this...Facebook cookie stores the Be Specific Consulting web page address as the first page identifier as well as logged-out or non-facebook visitor information
- reg_fb_ref: Share this...Facebook cookie stores Be Specific Consulting web page address as the last page identifier as well as logged-out or non-facebook visitor information
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Duration of cookies:
- reg_ext_ref: expires at the end of the session (when a user closes their browser)
- reg_fb_gate: expires at the end of the session (when a user closes their browser)
- reg_fb_ref: expires at the end of the session (when a user closes their browser)
- Where it is used: news stories and blog posts on the Be Specific Consulting website
- Impact on user's experience of the site: none
Purpose: to track visitor views of Vimeo videos embedded in Be Specific Consulting web pages and usage of its services. Vimeo uses Google analytics tracking cookies and these functions and duration are described in the Google Analytics section above.
Google Maps: NID
- Purpose: to enable traffic analysis to Google Maps
- Data stored by the cookie: a unique identifier to allow visitor analysis; data is only used in aggregate
- Duration of cookie: expires after six months
- Where it is used: on web pages with embedded Google maps
- Impact on user’s experience of the site: none
- Purpose: to set preferences for various services on Google
- Data stored by the cookie: a unique identifier that allows visitor analysis
- Duration of cookie: expires after two years
- Where it is used: on web pages with embedded Google services such as maps.
- Impact on user's experience of the site: none
- Purpose: to track visitor views of YouTube videos embedded in Be Specific Consulting web pages and usage of its services
- Data stored by cookies: unique identifier that allows visitor analysis, data is only used in aggregate.
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Duration of cookie:
- GEO expires after seven months
- VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE expires after seven months
- use_hitbox expires at the end of a session (when a user closes your browser).
- PREF expires after 10 years
- recently_watched_video_id_list expires after 7 months
- Where it is used: on web pages with embedded you tube videos, for example Be Specific Consulting website index pages
- Impact on user's experience of the site: none
How to control and delete cookies
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit the About Cookies website, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may have an impact upon the functionality of our website.
If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual. To opt-out of third-parties collecting any data regarding your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information.
Personal data
Personal Data (i.e. information which could identify you) submitted to us, for example in response to a consultation, will only be used to respond to your feedback. We will not pass it on to any third party (including other Government departments or agencies) without your consent.
This privacy statement covers http://bureaucloud.com, http://www.bespecific.co.uk and other sites owned and managed by Be Specific Consulting. This statement does not cover links within this site to other websites.
