Background
HTTP cookies (also called web cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user’s computer or other device by the user’s web browser. When set, cookies are placed on the device used to access a website, and more than one cookie may be placed on a user’s device during a session.
Cookies serve useful and sometimes essential functions on the web. They enable web servers to store stateful information (such as items added in the shopping cart in an online store) on the user’s device or to track the user’s browsing activity (including clicking particular buttons, logging in, or recording which pages were visited in the past. They can also be used to save for subsequent use information that the user previously entered into form fields, such as names, addresses, passwords, and payment card numbers.
Tracking cookies, and especially third-party tracking cookies, are commonly used as ways to compile long-term records of individuals’ browsing histories — a potential privacy concern that prompted European and U.S. lawmakers to take action in 2011. European law requires that all websites targeting European Union member states gain “informed consent” from users before storing non-essential cookies on their device.
Approach
Cornwall Insight has a privacy-sensitive strategy towards personal data and the use of technologies that support the use of our sites, products and services, including cookies. At all times we strive to leverage in-house systems and software rather than third-party services, and locate these within the UK wherever possible.
This and other websites owned and operated by Cornwall Insight use cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish users. By using cookies, we are able to provide users with a better experience and to improve our sites by better understanding how they are used.
What cookies do our sites use?
The following first-party cookies may be placed on a user’s computer or device:
| Name of Cookie | Purpose and type | Strictly necessary | Expire | |
| _atuvc | Storage | no | 364 days | |
| _atuvs | Storage | no | 1 day | |
| Region | Administration | no | Session | |
| Salesforce Portal log in no session | Password | no | 364 days | |
| PHPSESSID | Log in | yes | Session | |
| Visitor_id | Tracking | no | 10 years | |
| Visitor_id-hash | Security | no | 10 years |
The following third-party cookies may be placed on a user’s computer or device:
| Name of Cookie | Purpose and type | Provider | Strictly necessary | Expire |
| _atuvc | Storage | AddThis | no | 1 year 1 month |
| _atssc | no | 1 year 1 month | ||
| _ga | Analytics | no | 2 years | |
| _gid | Analytics | no | 24 hours | |
| Social sharing | Share this | no | 3 months | |
| Email tracking | Pardot | no | 3 months |
Consent and Control
Before cookies are placed on a user’s computer or device, they are shown a pop-up requesting their consent to set those cookies. Users may, if they wish, deny consent to the placing of cookies unless those cookies are strictly necessary, however certain features of our sites may not function fully or as intended. Users are given the opportunity to allow and/or deny different categories of cookie that we use.
Please note that the third parties listed above may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services.
Users can block cookies by activating the setting on their browser that allows them to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if they use their browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) they may not be able to access all or parts of our website.