Cover-More Blue Insurance Services Limited Cookie Policy
Cover-More Blue Insurance Services Limited and its associated companies ('we' or 'us' or 'our') are committed to protecting your privacy and personal information at all times. This cookie policy applies to all domains within Cover-More Blue Insurance Services Limited.
What are cookies and why do we use them?
A cookie is a small text file sent from a website and stored on your computer or mobile device. Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site, and also allows us to improve our site.
Types of Cookies
While the cookie used may vary depending on the website you visit within Cover-More Blue Insurance Services Limited, they are split into four different categories:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. They are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. These cookies are deleted when you close your browser. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site. - Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies are vital to our business and allow us to monitor website functionality & health. They help us track website use & identify potential errors, providing crucial insight. Examples of analytics cookies are _ga, _gid which are Google Analytics cookies. All Analytics cookies are first-party only in nature, fully aggregated and anonymous. These are defaulted as 'on' as they help our website and business function. - Performance Cookies
Performance cookies allow us to collect information around how our website is used so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help show us how users move around both individual pages and the website as a whole. All information that these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous. - Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow us to recognise you and remember choices you make (such as choice of language or mobile device preferences) when you return to our website. - Advertising / Targeting Cookies
To measure the effectiveness of our online advertising campaigns we use cookies set by third parties. For example, for measuring how many unique browsers have seen a particular advertisement and how many of those subsequently visit our website. The data these third parties collect using cookies does not identify individual users. Each have their own privacy policy which will tell you how they use cookies and data tags.
The following are a list of the cookies applicable to all our websites. The specific cookies used on each of our websites vary depending on the one you visit.
1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
| Cookie Name | Cookie Type | First or Third Party | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASPSESSIONIDXXXXXXXX | Strictly Necessary | First Party | This cookie name is generally associated with use as a general-purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft ASP based technologies. The structure of the cookie name is a common root - ASPSESSIONID, followed by a Session series of unique letters. It is usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Session |
| ASPSESSIONID | Strictly Necessary | First Party | This cookie name is generally associated with use as a general-purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft ASP based technologies. The structure of the cookie name is a common root - ASPSESSIONID, followed by a series of unique letters. It is usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Strictly Necessary | First Party | This cookie name is generally associated with use as a general-purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft ASP based technologies. The structure of the cookie name is a common root - ASPSESSIONID, followed by a series of unique letters. It is usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Session |
| .ASPXAUTH | Strictly Necessary | First Party | This cookie is used by sites using the .NET technology platform from Microsoft. It is commonly used to identify a logged-in user to enable access to secure areas of a site. | Session |
| OptanonConsent | Strictly Necessary | First Party | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | Persistent |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | Strictly Necessary | First Party | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | Persistent |
| 3f61d8700ee83bda7464ed6fd5bb5ee7 | Strictly Necessary | First Party | Used by our site's software (Joomla!) to identify your current session and allow logging in to our site, remember which country you selected to view prices for etc. | Session |
| __stripe_sid | Strictly Necessary | First Party | Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. Set for fraud prevention purposes. | Session |
| __stripe_mid | Strictly Necessary | First Party | Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. Set for fraud prevention purposes. | Persistent |
| m | Strictly Necessary | First Party | Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. Set for fraud prevention purposes. | Persistent |
| Blue Insurance Managed Optimizations | Strictly Necessary | First Party | Firefox cached content | Session |
| Blue Insurance Managed Optimizations | Strictly Necessary | Third Party | Firefox cached content | Session |
2. Analytics Cookies
| Cookie Name | Cookie Type | First or Third Party | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| __utma | Analytics | First Party | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It is used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners. lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It it used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners. | Persistent |
| __utmb | Analytics | First Party | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Any activity by a user within the 30-minute life span will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit, but a returning visitor. | Session |
| __utmc | Analytics | First Party | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is not used in most sites but is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin. In this older version this was used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. Where it is seen as a Persistent cookie it is therefore likely to be a different technology setting the cookie. | Session |
| __utmt | Analytics | First Party | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. According to their documentation it is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. | Session |
| __utmz | Analytics | First Party | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | Persistent |
| _ga | Analytics | First Party | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | Persistent |
| _gat | Analytics | First Party | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. | Session |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | Analytics | First Party | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | Session |
| _gid | Analytics | First Party | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | Persistent |
| _gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Analytics | First Party | Google Analytics - Used to analyse visitor browsing habits, flow, source and other information. | Session |
| _gat_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Analytics | First Party | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. | Session |
| _gat_UA-117896501-1 / _gat_UA-117896501-3 | Analytics | First Party | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | Session |
| _gclxxxx | Analytics | First Party | Google conversion tracking cookie. | Persistent |
| _utmv######### | Analytics | First Party | This is an optional additional cookie set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. | Session |
3. Performance Cookies
| Cookie Name | Cookie Type | First or Third Party | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _uetvid | Performance | First Party | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | Persistent |
| _vis_opt_s | Performance | First Party | This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. This cookie distinguishes between new and returning visitors. | Persistent |
| _vis_opt_test_cookie | Performance | First Party | This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. This cookie tests if the browser is set to allow cookies. | Session |
| _vwo_referrer | Performance | First Party | This is a pattern type cookie set by VWO to stores referral info allowing VWO to identify the original traffic source in case of split campaign. | Persistent |
| _vwo_sn | Performance | First Party | This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. | Persistent |
| Local Storage_vwoSn | Performance | First Party | This cookie is set to make split-tests on the website, which optimizes the website's relevance towards the visitor – the cookie can also be set to improve the visitor's experience on a website. | Persistent |
| _vwo_uuid_v2 | Performance | First Party | This cookie name is associated with the product Visual Website Optimiser, by USA based Wingify. The tool helps site owners measure the performance of different versions of web pages. This cookie ensures a visitor always sees the same version of a page and is used to track behaviour to measure the performance of different page versions. | Persistent |
4. Functional Cookies
| Cookie Name | Cookie Type | First or Third Party | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| liveagent_oref | Functional | First Party | This cookie name is associated with technology from LiveAgent, which provides online chat and customer support functionality. | Persistent |
| liveagent_oref | Functional | Third Party | This cookie name is associated with technology from LiveAgent, which provides online chat and customer support functionality. | Persistent |
| liveagent_ptid | Functional | First Party | This cookie name is associated with technology from LiveAgent, which provides online chat and customer support functionality. | Persistent |
| liveagent_ptid | Functional | ThirdParty | This cookie name is associated with technology from LiveAgent, which provides online chat and customer support functionality. | Persistent |
| liveagent_sid | Functional | First Party | This cookie name is associated with technology from LiveAgent, which provides online chat and customer support functionality. | Session |
| liveagent_sid | Functional | Third Party | This cookie name is associated with technology from LiveAgent, which provides online chat and customer support functionality. | Session |
| liveagent_vc | Functional | First Party | This cookie name is associated with technology from LiveAgent, which provides online chat and customer support functionality. | Persistent |
| Geolocation Cookie | Functional | First Party | Our geotarget system uses the GeoIP2 Web Service from Maxmind to determine the user’s access point country. This way, the website can display relevant content to them. | Persistent |
5. Target/Advertising Cookies
| Cookie Name | Cookie Type | First or Third Party | Purpose | Lifespan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Target/Advertising | First Party | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | Persistent |
| _uetsid | Target/Advertising | First Party | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | Persistent |
| Local Storage_uetsid | Target/Advertising | First Party | Used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | Persistent |
| Local Storage_uetsid_exp | Target/Advertising | First Party | Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. | Persistent |
| Local Storage_uetvid | Target/Advertising | First Party | This is a cookie used by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to relate to a user who has previously visited our website. | Persistent |
| Local Storage_uetvid_exp | Target/Advertising | First Party | Contains the expiry-date for the cookie with corresponding name. | Persistent |
| fr | Target/Advertising | Third Party | Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising. | Persistent |
| GPS | Target/Advertising | Third Party | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Session |
| IDE | Target/Advertising | Third Party | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real-time bidding advertising exchange. | Persistent |
| lang | Target/Advertising | Third Party | This domain is owned by Twitter. The main business activity is: Social Networking Services. Where twitter acts as a third-party host, it collects data through a range of plugins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting. Twitter does not currently provide information on the use of specific cookies. | Session |
| Local Storage_widgetsettings | Target/Advertising | Third Party | Twitter – Collects data on user behaviour and interaction in order to optimize the website and make advertisement on the website more relevant. | Persistent |
| Local_Storage_support_test | Target/Advertising | Third Party | Twitter – This function allows the website to load faster by pre-loading certain procedures. | Persistent |
| MUID | Target/Advertising | Third Party | This domain is owned by Mircosoft – it is the site for the search engine Bing. | Persistent |
| NID | Target/Advertising | Third Party | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. | Persistent |
| test_cookie | Target/Advertising | Third Party | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange. | Session |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Target/Advertising | Third Party | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos. | Session |
| YSC | Target/Advertising | Third Party | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Session |
| No Name | Target/Advertising | Third Party | This domain is owned by Facebook, which is the world's largest social networking service. As a third-party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies. | Session |
Enabling/Disabling Cookies
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