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We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, how they reached our site, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This information will be used by us and third parties to make our site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose but only if you consent to such sharing.
- Social Website Cookies. So you can easily “Like” or share our content, certain social media sites such Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site. These cookies are set by the third party social media sites to which they relate, including:
- Google Plus
The privacy implications vary from social media site to social media site and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these sites, please refer to the social media site’s privacy and cookies policy for more information.
Apps2Data uses the following specific cookies -
Session cookie to remember you as a user when you return to the site. The duration of this cookie is 1 year.
We also use Google Analytics cookies to track our Web site performance and help enhance our services. We include the following information regarding cookies from Google:
_ga are cookies with 2 year duration to remember your log-in & password information when returning to the site for your convenience.
_gid are cookies with 24 hour duration to remember your log-in & password information when returning to the site for your convenience.
_gat are cookies with a 1 minute duration and are used to accelerate request rate.