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IV Development Cookie Policy

What are ‘cookies’?

‘Cookies’ are small text files that are stored by the browser (for example, Internet Explorer or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store things like user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a ‘memory’ for the website, so that it can recognise you when you come back and respond appropriately.

How do I turn cookies off?

It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer

Cookie settings in Firefox

Cookie settings in Chrome

Cookie settings in Safari web

and

iOS

Types of cookies

Cookies fall into one of two categories – session or persistent – and the type of cookie is determined by how long each cookie is used:

Session cookies only last for your online session and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies stay on your computer or device after the browser has been closed and last for the period of time specified in the cookie. These persistent cookies are activated each time you visit the site where the cookie was generated.

Cookies that we use

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Name	Provider	Description	Type	Expiry
PHPSESSID	ivre.co.uk	Preserves user session state across page requests.	HTTP	Session
fonts-loaded	ivre.co.uk	This tells the site that the fonts have been successfully loaded, so prevents them from trying to be loaded every time a user accesses a new page as they move around the site.	HTTP	28 days

Preference cookies

Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Name	Provider	Description	Type	Expiry
lang	ads.linkedin.com	Remembers the user's selected language version of a website.	HTTP	Session

Statistic cookies

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Cookie	Description	Duration	Type
_gid	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.	1 day	Analytics
_hjid	This cookie is set by Hotjar. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.	11 months	Other
_hjIncludedInSample	This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate Heatmaps, Funnels, Recordings, etc.		Analytics
_gat	This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites.	1 minute	Performance
_ga	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.	2 months	Analytics
PHPSESSID	This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookies and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed.		Necessary

Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Name	Provider	Description	Type	Expiry
bcookie	linkedin.com	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.	HTTP	2 years
bscookie	linkedin.com	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.	HTTP	2 years
lidc	linkedin.com	Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.	HTTP	Session
BizoID	ads.linkedin.com	Stores a unique LinkedIn user ID. Note: The LinkedIn user ID does not contain personally identifiable information.	HTTP	179 days
UserMatchHistory	ads.linkedin.com	Stores the last time cookie IDs were synced with a given authorised network partner and is part of LinkedIn's server-to-server data integration solution.	HTTP	179 days
GPS	youtube.com	Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.	HTTP	Session
PREF	youtube.com	Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites.	HTTP	8 months
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	youtube.com	Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.	HTTP	179 days
YSC	youtube.com	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.	HTTP	Session