Auquan uses small files (known as cookies) to see how you use our site and products. We put them on your computer when you visit our site, and use them to recognise you and store information in between visits.
With cookies we can give you a better browsing experience, improve the quality of our products, and keep our marketing costs down. They let us make it easier to log in, and they show us where you might be having trouble with our products. Without them, we’d have no way to remember anything about you, such as whether you’re logged in.
In this policy, we’ve explained how and why we use cookies, and what each of them do. We’ve broken them down into four groups:
Strictly necessary cookies We need these cookies to run our website — they let us save your cookie preferences, and keep the site secure. They’re always on.
Cookies that give you a better browsing experience These let us tailor the site to your needs, like displaying it in the same language as your web browser. We’ll sometimes refer to them as functionality cookies.
Cookies that help us improve our productsThese let us use tools that show us how you interact with our products. They help us find and fix problems for our customers, and they’re also known as analytical or performance cookies.
Cookies that keep our marketing costs downThese improve our marketing — helping us to spend less on sites like Google and Facebook, and more on charging as little as we can. When our costs go down, so do our prices. We share this information in aggregate form with third parties, for the purpose of advertising.
You can see each cookie we use and our reasons for using them below.
__cfduid
Security / Essential
We also use the __cfruid cookie for our rate-limiting policies. Cloudflare provides web optimisation and security services that we use to improve and protect our websites, including a reverse proxy, pass-through security service, and a content distribution network. We also use the __cfruid cookie for our rate-limiting policies. Cloudflare provides web optimisation and security services that we use to improve and protect our websites, including a reverse proxy, pass-through security service, and a content distribution network.
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To understand more about this cookie go here: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170156-Understanding-the-Cloudflare-Cookies. To see their privacy policy go here: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
_uc_user_token
Security / Essential
We use this cookie after you have logged into the platform. It is an authentication token and, therefore, a security requirement to log into our services. If you decline this cookie you will not be able to log into the website.
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_uc_user_username
Essential
We use this cookie after you have logged into the platform. It stores frequently used data to speed up the website and is needed to identify logged in users. It is not used for any form of tracking or analytics
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_uc_user_verified
Essential
We use this cookie after you have logged into the platform. It stores frequently used data to speed up the website, specifically which competitions a user is registered for. It is not used for any form of tracking or analytics
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__consent_given
Essential
The primarily used for check user cookie consent permission for Essential or Necessary Cookies, platform will track mentioned cookies(see other mentioned cookies) and if Decline user will not be tracked
365
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_uc_user_id
Product Improvement
We use this cookie after you have logged into the platform. It stores frequently used data to speed up the website and is needed to identify logged in users. It is not used for any form of tracking or analytics
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__preferences_consent
Essential
The primarily used for check user cookie consent permission for Preferences Cookies, platform will track mentioned cookies(see other mentioned cookies) and if Decline user will not be tracked
365
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__statistics_consent
Essential
The primarily used for check user cookie consent permission for Statistics Cookies, platform will track mentioned cookies(see other mentioned cookies) and if Decline user will not be tracked
365
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__marketing_consent
Essential
The primarily used for check user cookie consent permission for Marketing Cookies, platform will track mentioned cookies(see other mentioned cookies) and if Decline user will not be tracked
365
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_uc_user_firstname
Fundamental
We use this cookie after you have logged into the platform. It stores frequently used data to speed up the website. It is not used for any form of tracking or analytics
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_uc_user_lastname
Fundamental
We use this cookie after you have logged into the platform. It stores frequently used data to speed up the website. It is not used for any form of tracking or analytics
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_uc_analytics_id
Product Improvement
We use this anonymousId to collect and aggregate data about how users interact with our website. This helps us understand what features are working well and what needs improving
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_uc_user_ip
Product Improvement
This is primarily used to understand where users are located. It may also be used for cheating prevention in competitions, or in some automatic decision making processes (e.g. to deliver geographic specific competitions only to relevant users)
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_uc_utm_source
Product Improvement
This cookie records the source from which a user first lands on the website (if it was through a UTM tagged URL). It helps us understand where our users come from so we can better communicate through these channels
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visit
Future Marketing
This cookie is used by LinkedIn as part of their embedded services on the Websites. More information can be found in their cookie policy.
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
_fbp
Future Marketing
The fr, _fbp, _tr, AA003 and ATN cookies are used by Facebook to obtain encrypted data about visitors and users of our website for the purposes of measuring advertising effectiveness, showing relevant advertising to certain groups of users and excluding other groups of users from seeing irrelevant advertising. For example this will help us to not advertise signing up to auquan for people who is signed up to auquan clients
Facebook
https://en-gb.facebook.com/policy.php
How to block cookies
You can choose to block cookies by activating the settings on your browser that allow you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access parts of the website. Your browser settings also allow you to delete all cookies stored on your device whenever you wish.
How to control cookies
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has provided the following guidance on controlling cookies:
- A number of websites provide detailed information on cookies, including AboutCookies.org and AllAboutCookies.org.
- The European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance website Your Online Choices allows you to install opt-out cookies across different advertising networks. Google has developed a browser add-on to allow users to opt-out of Google Analytics across all websites which use it. This is also available in the Chrome web store.
- Some browsers include a feature known as ‘Do Not Track’ or DNT. This allows you to indicate a preference that websites should not track you. However, whilst DNT is available in many browsers, websites are not required to recognise its request, so it may not always work. You can get help on how to use DNT in Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera.
- For more information on how private browsing works as well as its limitations, visit the support pages for your browser: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari (IOS mobile and desktop) and Opera.
If you are concerned about online tracking then we can recommend you:
- Install a privacy-friendly browser on your device, such as Mozilla Firefox, Firefox Focus or Brave;
- Install anti-tracking and ad-blocking plug-ins on that browser, such as uBlock, Ghostery or PrivacyBadger; and
- Use privacy-friendly web search engines, such as DuckDuckGo or Qwant
- If you have any questions about the cookies or similar technologies in use on our website, please send an email to [email protected]