Our Use of Cookies
Our sites may place and access certain first-party Cookies on your computer or device. First party Cookies are those placed directly by Us and are used only by Us. We use Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of Our Sites and to provide and improve Our products and services. We have carefully chosen these Cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.
All Cookies used by and on our sites are used in accordance with current Cookie Law.
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Our sites use analytics services. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling us to better understand how our sites are used. This, in turn, enables us to improve our sites and the products and services offered through them. You do not have to allow Us to use these Cookies, however, whilst Our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of our sites, it does enable us to continually improve our sites, making it a better and more useful experience for you.
The analytics service(s) used by our sites use(s) Cookies to gather the required information.
Our Sites use the following Cookies:
| Cookie Name | Type | Provider | Purpose | Expiry |
| Statistics | ||||
| _ga | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2-years |
| _gat | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | Session |
| _gid | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Session |
| @@History/@@scroll|# | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Unclassified | Persistent |
| _pinterest_cm | HTTP | pinterest.com | Used by Pinterest to track the usage of services. | 1 year |
| p.gif | Pixel | typekit.net | Unclassified | Session |
| Marketing | ||||
| __atuvc | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Updates the counter of a website’s social sharing features. | 1 year |
| __atuvs | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Ensures that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, Add This. | Session |
| __stid | HTTP | sharethis.com | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user’s device for return visits. | 1 year |
| ANON_ID | HTTP | tribalfusion.com | Collects data on user visits to the website, such as what pages have been accessed. The registered data is used to categorise the user’s interest and demographic profiles in terms of resales for targeted marketing. | 3 months |
| at-lojson-cache-# | HTML | signatureliving.co.uk | Used by the social sharing platform, Add This. | Persistent |
| bkdc | HTTP | bluekai.com | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. | 179 days |
| bku | HTTP | addthis.com | Unclassified | 1 year |
| bku | HTTP | bluekai.com | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. | 1 year |
| bt2 | HTTP | addthis.com | Used by the social sharing platform Add This to keep a record of parts of the site that has been visited in order to recommend other parts of the site. | 179 days |
| CM | HTTP | tripadvisor.com | Used for viewing embedded content from Trip Advisor, including payment of referral commission fees and user tracking across websites. | 10 years |
| demdex | HTTP | demdex.net | Via a unique ID that is used for semantic content analysis, the user’s navigation on the website is registered and linked to offline data from surveys and similar registrations to display targeted ads. | 179 days |
| di2 | HTTP | addthis.com | Unclassified | 1 year |
| dpm | HTTP | demdex.net | Unclassified | 179 days |
| fr | HTTP | facebook.com | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months |
| GPS | HTTP | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location . | Session |
| IDE | HTTP | doubleclick.net | 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 top resent targeted ads to the user. | 2 years |
| jvxbksync | HTTP | jivox.com | Unclassified | 13 days |
| jvxsync | HTTP | jivox.com | Unclassified | 1 year |
| loc | HTTP | addthis.com | Geolocation which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level). | 1 year |
| mus | HTTP | addthis.com | Unclassified | 1 year |
| NID | HTTP | google.com | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | 6 months |
| ouid | HTTP | addthis.com | Unclassified | 1 year |
| PMC | HTTP | tripadvisor.com | Unclassified | 2 years |
| PREF | HTTP | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. | 8 months |
| ServerPool | HTTP | tripadvisor.com | Used for reviewing embedded content from Trip Advisor, including payment of referral commission fees and user tracking across websites. | Session |
| SEUNCY | HTTP | semasio.net | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user’s device for return visits. | 179 days |
| SRT | HTTP | tripadvisor.com | Unclassified | Session |
| TACds | HTTP | tripadvisor.com | Used for reviewing embedded content from Trip Advisor, including payment of referral commission fees and user tracking across websites. | 2 months |
| TapAd_DID | HTTP | tapad.com | Used to determine what type of devices (smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs etc.) is used by a user. | 2 months |
| TapAd_TS | HTTP | tripadvisor.com | Used for reviewing embedded content from Trip Advisor, including payment of referral commission fees and user tracking across websites. | Session |
| TART | HTTP | tripadvisor.com | Unclassified | 4 days |
| TASession | HTTP | tripadvisor.com | Used for viewing embedded content from Trip Advisor, including payment of referral commission fees and user tracking across websites. | Session |
| TASSK | HTTP | tripadvisor.com | Unclassified | 179 days |
| TATravelInfo | HTTP | tripadvisor.com | Used for viewing embedded content from Trip Advisor, including payment of referral commission fees and user tracking across websites. | 13 days |
| TAUD | HTTP | tripadvisor.com | Unclassified | 13 days |
| TAUnique | HTTP | tripadvisor.com | Used for viewing embedded content from Trip Advisor, including payment of referral commission fees and user tracking across websites. | 2 years |
| test_cookie | HTTP | doubleclick.net | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | Session |
| uid | HTTP | addthis.com | Creates a unique, machine-generated user ID. Add This, which is owned by Clearspring Technologies, users the user ID to make it possible for the user to share content across social networks and provide detailed statistics to various providers. | 1 year |
| tr | Pixel | facebook.com | Unclassified | Session |
| uvc | HTTP | addthis.com | Detects how often the social sharing service, Add This, encounters the same user. | 1 year |
| vc | HTTP | addthis.com | Used by the social sharing platform Add This | 1 year |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | HTTP | youtube.com | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 179 days |
| xtc | HTTP | addthis.com | Registers the user’s sharing of content via social media. | 1 year |
| YSC | HTTP | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session |
| Unclassified | ||||
| __sharethis_cookie_test__ | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Unclassified | Session |
| _ok | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Unclassified | Session |
| _okbk | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Unclassified | Session |
| _okck | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Unclassified | Session |
| _okdetect | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Unclassified | Session |
| _oklv | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Unclassified | Session |
| _okgid | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Unclassified | Session |
| DYNSRV | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Unclassified | Session |
| hblid | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Unclassified | 2 years |
| jslog/log.png | Pixel | og.olark.com | Unclassified | Session |
| olfsk | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Unclassified | 2 years |
| wcsid | HTTP | signatureliving.co.uk | Unclassified | Session |
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