Chesnara plc (“we” or “our”) uses technology to collect information about the use of our website (www.chesnara.co.uk) and to distinguish you from other users of our website, in order to improve your experience when you browse our site.
In order to collect the information our site uses cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is sent to your browser and stored on the hard drive of your computer (or internet enabled device) when you visit a website.
We use the following cookies on our website:
Strictly necessary cookies – These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies the services you have asked for cannot be provided. They are deleted when you close the browser. These cookies do not collect personal information about you.
Analytical/Performance cookies – These cookies collect information in an anonymous form about how visitors use our site. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it.
Functionality cookies – These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you. Functionality cookies are only activated on our website when you make a particular selection or carry out a particular action.
We have described the main cookies we use and what we use these for below:
Name | Description | Category | Expiry |
ASP.NET_SessionId |
General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
AWSALB |
AWS ELB application load balancer |
Strictly necessary |
7 days |
AWSALBCORS |
This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. |
Strictly necessary |
7 days |
AWSELB |
This cookie name is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server. |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
AWSALBTG |
AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to encode information about the selected target group. |
Strictly necessary |
7 days |
AWSELBCORS |
AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSELB. |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
__cfduid |
Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information. |
Strictly necessary |
30 days |
AWSALBTGCORS |
This domain is owned by Investis, a UK based business. It is used for embedding investor information into a client website. |
Strictly necessary |
7 days |
__CookieConsentV300 |
A JavaScript plugin that alerts users of the use of cookies on this website. |
Strictly necessary |
180 days |
_gat |
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.Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics.
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Performance cookies |
1 minute |
_ga |
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.Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics.
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Performance cookies |
730 days |
_gid |
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.Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics.
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Performance cookies |
1 day |
_gat_INVDSitecore |
Google Analytics Cookies |
Performance cookies |
a few seconds |
_gat_UA-69932819-1 |
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. |
Performance cookies |
a few seconds |
Our site may link through to third party websites, which may also use cookies over which we have no control. We recommend that you check the relevant third parties’ privacy notices for information about any cookies they may use.
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This policy is under regular review. This policy was last amended on 31 May 2013.