Website Cookie Policy

August 2022 

1.Definition 

This is our cookies policy. If you use our website, your acceptance of this policy will be given by your continued use. If you do not agree with this policy please stop using our website immediately. 

Use of our website is also subject to our website terms of use: https://www.giantdigital.co.uk/terms-conditions and privacy policy: https://www.giantdigital.co.uk/privacy-policy

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit our website and are used to make the users experience more efficient. We are able to store cookies on your computer where they are necessary for the operation of the site however, for non-essential cookies we need your permission. 

2.Who We Are 

https://www.giantdigital.co.uk is operated by Giant Digital, a UK Limited company registered in England under company number 07603734. 

Some important details about us: 

Our registered office and trading office is at: Crown House, High Street, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire RG27 8NW 

Our email address is: info@giantdigital.co.uk 

Our phone number is: 0208 152 4572 

3.How we use Cookies 

We use cookies to recognise you and your preferences, improve our site’s performance and collect analytical information for ourselves and our business partners. We track users on our site to identify which parts of our website have been visited and to allow us to make our site more relevant to our users. Without the knowledge gained we would not be able to provide certain functionality on our website.   

4."Session" and "Persistent" Cookies 

"Session cookies" allow us to track your actions during a single browsing session, but they do not remain on your device afterwards. 

"Persistent cookies" remain on your device between sessions. We use them to authenticate you and to remember your preferences. We can also use them to balance the load on our servers and improve your experience on our website. 

Session and persistent cookies can be either first or third party cookies. A first-party cookie is set by the website being visited; a third-party cookie is set by a different website. Both types of cookie may be used by us or our business partners. 

Cookies used on the site are categorised and below you can read about each category and understand more about which can be disabled.  

When categories that have been previously allowed are disabled, all cookies assigned to that category will be removed from your browser. Additionally, you can see a list of cookies assigned to each category and detailed information in the cookie declaration. 

Learn more 

5. Cookie Categories  

All our cookies are categorised by the role they fulfil on our website: 

a. Strictly Necessary: these are essential to enable you to move around our website and use features such as secure services. The website won't function properly without these cookies and they are enabled by default and cannot be disabled. 

b. Functionality: allow the website to remember your choices and to personalise certain features. These cookies may be anonymised and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. 

c. Analytical: collect information as to how users use the website. These analytics cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. The information collected is aggregated and used to improve our website. 

d. Marketing: used to track visitors across websites to allow publishers to display relevant and engaging advertisements. 

6. Cookie Declaration 

Necessary cookies

Name

Hostname

Path

Expiry

django_language

/

365 days

csrftoken

/

364 days

Used by many systems for Cross Site Forgery protection.

sessionId

/

14 days

cookiehub

.giantdigital.co.uk

/

365 days

Used by CookieHub to store information about whether visitors have given or declined the use of cookie categories used on the site.

.nr-data.net

.nr-data.net

/

Session (3rd party)

General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites with JavaServer Pages (JSP). The cookie is usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server.


Functionality & Preferences

Name

Hostname

Path

Expiry

lang

.ads.linkedin.com

/

Session (3rd party)

Session-based cookie that remembers the user's selected language version of a website.

lidc

.linkedin.com

/

1 day (3rd party)

Used by LinkedIn for routing.

lang

.linkedin.com

/

Session (3rd Party)

Session-based cookie that remembers the user's selected language version of a website.

li_gc

.linkedin.com

/

180 days (3rd party)

Used by LinkedIn to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes


Analytical cookies

Name

Hostname

Path

Expiry

_gid

.giantdigital.co.uk

/

1 day

Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.

_gat_*

.giantdigital.co.uk

/

1 hour

Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate (limit the collection of data on high traffic sites)

_ga_*

.giantdigital.co.uk

/

730 days

Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics 4 to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.

bcookie

.linkedin.com

/

365 days (3rd party)

This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media.


Marketing cookies

Name

Hostname

Path

Expiry

_gcl_au

.giantdigital.co.uk

/

90 days

Used by Google AdSense to understand user interaction with the website by generating analytical data.

UserMatchHistory

.linkedin.com

/

30 days (3rd party)

Contains a unique identifier used by LinkedIn to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.

AnalyticsSyncHistory

.linkedin.com

/

30 days (3rd party)

Used by LinkedIn to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries

bscookie

/

365 days (3rd party)

Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.

7.Disclaimer 

If at any time you wish to disable our cookies, you may do so through the settings on your browser or by using our onsite cookie manager, CookieHub. However, if you choose to disable or delete our cookies, that will prevent certain important areas and features of our service from functioning properly. You can find additional information at aboutcookies.org

Notwithstanding, the audit undertaken regarding our cookies, it is possible we may have missed one from our list above. If you happen to find one that is being set on our site, please let us know. 

8. Applicable Law  

We will use our best efforts to negotiate in good faith and settle any dispute that may arise out of or relating to this Agreement or any breach of it.  

If any such dispute cannot be settled amicably through ordinary negotiations between the Parties, or either or both is or are unwilling to engage in this process, either Party may propose to the other in writing that structured negotiations be entered into with the assistance of a fully accredited mediator before resorting to litigation.  

If the Parties are unable to agree upon a mediator, or if the mediator agreed upon is unable or unwilling to act and an alternative mediator cannot be agreed, any party may within 14 days of the date of knowledge of either event apply to Giant Digital’s legal representative to appoint a mediator.  

Within 14 days of the appointment of the mediator (either by mutual agreement of the Parties or following Giant Digital’s legal representative’s own procedure), the Parties will meet with the mediator to agree the procedure to be adopted for the mediation, unless otherwise agreed between the parties and the mediator.  

All negotiations connected with the relevant dispute(s) will be conducted in confidence and without prejudice to the rights of the Parties in any further proceedings.  

If the Parties agree on a resolution of the dispute at mediation, the agreement shall be reduced to writing and, once signed by the duly authorised representatives of both Parties, shall be final and binding on them.  

If the Parties fail to resolve the dispute(s) within 60 days (or such longer term as may be agreed between the Parties) of the mediator being appointed, or if either Party withdraws from the mediation procedure, then either Party may exercise any right to seek a remedy through arbitration by an arbitrator to be appointed by Giant Digital’s legal representative.  

Any dispute shall not affect the Parties' ongoing obligations under the Agreement.  

The English courts have the only right to hear claims related to our site, and all disputes are governed by English law.