Cookies Policy

Cookies Policy

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Why we use cookies

We use getcheckedearly.org cookie tracking data to make informed decisions on whether the site is meeting your needs, which leads to us making improvements. For example, we monitor how much traffic each part of the site gets and work to improve areas which are not being found when they should be.

Google Analytics

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Measuring site usage

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use getcheckedearly.org. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting your needs and to help us make improvements.

We store information about:

We do not:

All information we get through cookies and analytics will be treated in confidence.

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Name Purpose Expiry

_ga

This is used to understand and differentiate between different users.

38 Months

_gid

_gid has a different ID for each page set on, and a timestamp. This assists with plotting user journeys.

24 Hours

_gat

We use Google Tag Manager to tailor our tracking in case we have different elements that are being tested. For example, setting a tag to track how far a user is having to scroll down a long page. The _gat tag pushes the request rate through quicker.

1 Minute

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress

This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.

Session

_hjid

This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar 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.

12 months

_hjIncludedInSessionSample

This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.

30 minutes

__hjRecordingLastActivity

This should be found in Session storage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records).

Session

_fbp

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisemen t produ cts su ch as real time biddin g from th ird party advertisers.

3 Months

_gcl_au

Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.

3 Months

fr

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

3 Months

IDE

Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.

1 Year

test_cookie

Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies

1 Day

tr

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.

Session

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

179 Days

YSC

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

179 Days

yt.innertube::nextId

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

Persistent

yt.innertube::requests

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

Persistent

yt-remote-cast-installed

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Session

yt-remote-connected-devices

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Persistent

yt-remote-device-id

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Persistent

yt-remote-fast-check-period

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Session

yt-remote-session-app

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Session

yt-remote-session-name

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Session

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