Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website and only that site will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what's in your shopping basket.
How do we use them?
When someone visits eigpropertyauctions.co.uk we collect standard visitor details to determine the number of visitors to different sections of the site. We do not make any attempt to find out the identity of visitors or associate the information gathered with any personal information from any source, unless the user is logged in then some cookies are associated with their user account. Some cookies are strictly necessary in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
We use the cookies in the following ways: -
Required - eigpropertyauctions.co.uk has a set of cookies which are critical to the functionality of the site. They are used to keep a user logged in to the site and to link page interactions together.
Functional - eigpropertyauctions.co.uk uses a set of cookies, provided by the Google Analytics service to help us track the users on the site and helps us understand how customers are using our site. These cookies are only used to help improve our site experience.
Please find below the details of the main cookies that are used on eigpropertyauctions.co.uk and their purpose.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Client Services | WWW_Auth | This is set when you are logged in and is used to determine if a user is authenticated. |
| Client Services | CookieID | This is set when you are logged in and is used to remember required information about the user. |
| Site Platform | s | This is set when you visit the site and is used to help retain transient information. |
| Site Platform | f | This is set when you visit the site and is used to help security. |
| Site Platform | t | This is set when you visit the site and is used to help retain transient information. |
| Hosting Platform | ARRAffinity | Used to enable sticky sessions with the Application and Request Routing feature (ARR) behind our hosts load balancers. |
| Google Analytics | _ga | Used to distinguish users. |
| Google Analytics | _gid | Used to distinguish users. |
| Google Analytics | _gat | Used to throttle request rate. |
| Microsoft Application Insights | ai_user | Used by Microsoft Application Insights to collect statistical usage and telemetry information. |
| Microsoft Application Insights | ai_session | Used by Microsoft Application Insights to collect statistical usage and telemetry information. |
Third Party Cookies and Content Sharing
When you decide to share eigpropertyauctions.co.uk content using social media sharing tools on our site, you may be presented with cookies from third party sites such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. eigpropertyauctions.co.uk does not control how these sites use cookies so you should refer to the relevant sites own privacy and cookie policy to understand how they use cookies.
Further information
If you require any further information on cookies, or wish to learn how to control and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org - please note this is an external website and eigpropertyauctions.co.uk is not responsible for the accuracy of the information on this site.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.