What are Cookies?

 

Cookies are small files that get put on your computer by websites as you surf them. These cookies can store lots of information which can have privacy implications. We like to think all the cookies used on this site are fairly innocuous but that's for you to judge. Below we have listed each of the cookies that our site sets, grouped together by what they do and with detail as to why we use them. For those that want a little more information, we've added information which details the exact purpose of every single cookie we create. Lastly, we've included information about the time the cookie is kept on your system (is it kept after you leave the site, to be used when you return - persistent - or deleted once your visit is completed and only used for that visit - session)

What cookies do we use?

According to the the International Chamber of Commerce guide for cookies, website cookies can be seperated into four categories

 

The following tables are provided to supply you with information on what cookies CSIMedia.net will set and what category these cookies fall into

Strictly Necessary

Cookie Purpose Persistent or Session
ASP/ASP NET Required to identify the device or user and report to and to communicate with the server correctly. These can vary in naming conventions, but are normally prefixed with ASP NET or ASPSESSIONID Session
csi Sets some simple configuration variables to alter the display of the website Persistent - 12 Months
cookie_level Set your defined level of cookie acceptance, this is a persistent cookie that stays on your system for 12 months, it can however be changed when changing your desired cookie acceptance level. Persistent - 12 Months

 

Performance

Cookie Purpose Persistent or Session
None

 

Functionality

Cookie Purpose Persistent or Session
guest_id
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Cookies set by the Twitter API Service to allow display of tweets on the CSI Media Homepage, Twitters privacy policy can be view by clicking the following link http://twitter.com/privacy Persistent - 6 Months

 

Targeting/Advertising

Cookie Purpose Persistent or Session
__utma
__utmb
__utmc
__utmz
This group of cookies, often called 'analytics cookies' are used to gather this information. These cookies don't collect information that identifies you. The information collected is anonymous and is grouped with the information from everyone else's cookies. We can then see the overall patterns of usage rather than any one person's activity. Analytics cookies only record activity on the site you are on and they are only used to improve how a website works.
Further information on Analytics Cookies can be found by visitng the following link http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/policies/privacy/
Aditionally, a browser addon for most popular browsers is available from Google to block all analytics cookies on all websites that you may visit, you can download the addon by visiting the following link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Persistent - 12 months
__atuvc Used by the AddThis service to keep count of the number of times a page has been shared between the actual share time and their own server cache update time
Further information about the AddThis cookies can be found by viewing their privacy policy at the following address http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy
Persistent - 12 months
xtc
uid
uvc
psc
loc
Cookies of varying data type, used by the AddThis Service for the purpose of sharing pages with multiple social networks
Further information about the AddThis cookies can be found by viewing their privacy policy at the following address http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy
Persistent - 12 months

 

 

Please select your desired cookie acceptance level.