Categories of cookies in use
The categories of cookies in use are described as follows:
| Category | Description of Category |
| Advertisement | Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features. |
| Functional | Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features. |
| Necessary | Necessary cookies are essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basis functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. |
| Analytics | Analytics cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provided information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source etc. |
Cookies in use
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 | Domain | Category | Description | Expiry |
| _scid | .the-compensation-experts.co.uk | Advertisement | Used to help identify a visitor. | 1 year 1 month |
| sc_at | .snapchat.com | Advertisement | Used to identify a visitor across multiple domains. | 1 year |
| X-AB | sc-static.net | Necessary | This cookie is used by the website’s operator in context with multi-variate testing. This is a tool used to combine or change content on the website. This allows the website to find the best variation/edition of the site. | 1 day |
| _fbp | .the-compensation-experts.co.uk | Advertisement | Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months |
| _gid | .the-compensation-experts.co.uk | Analytics | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day |
| _ga | .the-compensation-experts.co.uk | Analytics | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| _gat | .the-compensation-experts.co.uk | Analytics | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 1 minute |
| Uid | .criteo.com | Analytics | This cookie is one of the cookies used to track usage of the Addthis.com service. It allows a user to share a webpage with many social sites. | 1 Year |
| sc_at | .snapchat.com | Analytics | Used to identify a visitor across multiple domains. | 1 Year |
| PugT | .pubmatic.com | Analytics | Used to determine the number of times the cookies have been updated in the visitor’s browser. Used to optimize the website’s server efficiency. | 1 Month |
| tuuid | .bidswitch.net | Advertisement | This cookie is mainly set by bidswitch.net to make advertising messages more relevant to the website visitor. | 1 Year |
| tuuid | .360yield.com | Advertisement | This cookie is mainly set by bidswitch.net to make advertising messages more relevant to the website visitor. | 3 Months |
| tuuid_lu | .bidswitch.net | Advertisement | Contains a unique visitor ID, which allows Bidswitch.com to track the visitor across multiple websites. This allows Bidswitch to optimize advertisement relevance and ensure that the visitor does not see the same ads multiple times. | 1 Year |
| Tuuid_lu | .360yield.com | Advertisement | Contains a unique visitor ID, which allows Bidswitch.com to track the visitor across multiple websites. This allows Bidswitch to optimize advertisement relevance and ensure that the visitor does not see the same ads multiple times. | 3 Months |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | Advertisement | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies are used to store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads and according to the user profile. | 1 Year |
| anj | .adnxs.com | Advertisement | The anj cookie contains data denoting whether a cookie ID is synced with our partners. | 3 months |
| uuid2 | .adnxs.com | Advertisement | This cookie contains a unique randomly-generated value that enables the Platform to distinguish browsers and devices | 3 months |
| CMID | .casalemedia.com | Advertisement | Casale Media advertising cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products where users look. | 1 Year |
| CMPS | .casalemedia.com | Advertisement | Casale Media advertising cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products where users look. | 3 months |
| CMPRO | .casalemedia.com | Advertisement | Casale Media advertising cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products where users look. | 3 months |
| demdex | .demdex.net | Advertisement | Adobe Marketing Cloud and Adobe Audience Manger include analytics cookies to anonymously define new visitors, help analyze clickstream data, and track historical activity on the website, such as response to particular campaigns or the length of the sales cycle. | 6 months |
| dpm | .dpm.demdex.net | Advertisement | Adobe Marketing Cloud and Adobe Audience Manger include analytics cookies to anonymously define new visitors, help analyze clickstream data, and track historical activity on the website, such as response to particular campaigns or the length of the sales cycle. | 6 months |
| umeh | .360yield.com | Advertisement | This cookie is used by 360 Yield to rediscover wlw users on other websites by means of retargeting and to adapt the display of ads accordingly. | 3 months |
| _kuid_ | .krxd.net | Advertisement | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | 6 months |
| criteo | exchange.mediavine.com | Advertisement | Gathers data about user visits to the site, such as which pages have been loaded. The registered data will be used for targeted advertising. | 14 days |
| cf | .id5-sync.com | Advertisement | Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates real-time bidding for advertisers. | 5 Minutes |
| cip | .id5-sync.com | Advertisement | Used to present the visitor with relevant content and advertisement – The service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. | 5 Minutes |
| cnac | .id5-sync.com | Advertisement | Used to present the visitor with relevant content and advertisement – The service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. | 5 Minutes |
| car | .id5-sync.com | Advertisement | Used to present the visitor with relevant content and advertisement – The service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. | 5 Minutes |
| callback | .id5-sync.com | Advertisement | Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement – This also allows the website to limit the number of times that the visitor is shown the same advertisement. | 5 Minutes |
| um | .360yield.com | Advertisement | To enable the bidding process. | 3 Months |
| AWSALBCORS | match.sharethrough.com | Analytics | This cookie enables us to allocate server traffic to make the user experience as smooth as possible. A so-called load balancer is used to determine which server currently has the best availability. The information generated cannot identify you as an individual. | 7 Days |
| _ga_YDC1RHTMWV | .the-compensation-experts.co.uk | Analytics | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. | 1 year 1 month |
| _gat_UA-77342259-4 | .the-compensation-experts.co.uk | 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 is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | 1 minute |
| _gcl_au | .the-compensation-experts.co.uk | Advertisement | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services | 3 Months |
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