1.0 Purpose
The purpose of this policy is to explain to users of this website https://www.serverchoice.com how cookies are used on the site, the options for controlling the use of cookies and what cookies are used and for what purpose.
2.0 Scope
When we provide services via our website this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on the device that you are using to be able to fully access our website. This policy applies to the cookies used on this website https://www.serverchoice.com and to enable a service to recognise your device to prevent you from having to provide the same information during one task, or when you revisit our website.
3.0 Definitions
The following terms are used throughout this policy and are defined as follows:
"Cookie” - Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer by the websites that you visit. They are used in order to make websites work, to provide features, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owner of the site such as pages visited, number of visitors etc. Some cookies also enable the display of relevant advertising when you move from site to site.
“We/us/our” - refers to ServerChoice Ltd the owner of this website registered at Unit H, Gateway 1000, Whittle Way, Stevenage, Herts, SG1 2FP. UK with company registration number 13658798.
“Personal data" - is any information which can directly or indirectly identify a living person as defined under Article 4 (1) of the UK General Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR)
“First Party Cookie” - this is a cookie that is controlled by us.
“Third Party Cookie” - this is a cookie provided by a third party e.g., Google Analytics for which we have no control over.
“Session” - If a cookie does not contain an expiration date, it is considered a session cookie. Session cookies are stored in memory and never written to disk. When the browser closes, the cookie is permanently lost from this point on.
“Persistent” - these cookies stay in one of your browser's subfolders until you delete them manually or your browser deletes them based on the duration period contained within the persistent cookie's file.
4.0 Cookie Types
We use the following types of cookies on our website:
Necessary Cookies - These cookies are necessary for the operation of our site. They don't access or store any personal data. Our website cannot function without these cookies so they are, by default switched on to ensure you can experience the full functionality of our website.
Analytics Cookies - These cookies allow us to analyse website use such as which pages are most popular and how visitors move around the site. The information collected does not directly identify any individuals.
Functionality Cookies - These cookies allow us to recognize you when you return to our website. They enable us to personalise content for you and remember preferences you may have set on your last visit.
Performance/statistics Cookies - These cookies collect information about how you use our website (e.g., which Internet browser you use, how often you visit our website, which pages you open, or how long you stay on our website). These cookies do not store any information that enables visitors to be personally identified. The information collected with the help of these cookies is aggregated, and thus anonymous.
Marketing Cookies - these cookies allow us to provide personalised and relevant services or advertising to our visitors, and to assess the effectiveness of our digital marketing activities. We also use these cookies to enable third party 'plug-ins' like social media sharing and like buttons. They also enable us to play video content.
4.1 Necessary Cookies
| Cookie Name | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
__cfduid |
PERSISTENT | 30 days | 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. |
_bulletproof_session |
SESSION | Expire once you close your browser | Session cookies allow ServerChoice to remember users when they move between web pages. These cookies tell the server what pages to show the user, so the user doesn’t have to remember where they left off or start navigating the site all over again. Therefore, without session cookies, websites have no memory. |
_ga |
PERSISTENT | 365 days | 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 visit session and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports. |
OptanonAlertBoxClosed |
PERSISTENT | The cookie has a one-year lifespan and contains no personal information. | 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. |
OptanonConsent |
PERSISTENT | 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. | 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 user’s browser when consent is not given. |
wc_client |
PERSISTENT | 180 days | This cookie is associated with What Converts, a service that allows measurement of call centre interaction and identification of the source of phone calls to understand the effectiveness of marketing efforts. It stores ServerChoice numbers swapped out for call diagnostics purposes. |
wc_client_current |
SESSION | Expire once you close your browser | This cookie is associated with What Converts, a service that allows measurement of call centre interaction and identification of the source of phone calls to understand the effectiveness of marketing efforts. It stores ServerChoice numbers being swapped out for call diagnostics purposes. |
wc_swap |
PERSISTENT | Expire once you close your browser | This cookie is associated with What Converts, a service that allows measurement of call centre interaction and identification of the source of phone calls to understand the effectiveness of marketing efforts. It stores ServerChoice numbers being swapped out for call diagnostics purposes. |
wc_visitor |
PERSISTENT | 730 days | This cookie is associated to What Converts which is a service that allows us to measure call centre interaction and identify the source of phone calls so we can understand the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. This cookie specifically stores ServerChoice numbers that are being swapped out for call diagnostics purposes. |
4.2 Functional Cookies
| Cookie Name | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
_gd############# |
SESSION | Expire once you close your browser | This cookie contains no identifying information and is used for diagnostic purposes by Impact Radius, a service we use to track signup commissions for our affiliate program. We have categorized it under Functionality because it is necessary for the operation of our affiliate program. |
bcookie |
PERSISTENT | 365 days | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third-party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason, it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
PERSISTENT | 180 days | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos. |
intercom-id-dy577dhn |
PERSISTENT | 365 days | Anonymous visitor identifier cookie. As people visit your site, they get this cookie. |
intercom-session-dy577dhn |
PERSISTENT | 365 days | Identifier for each unique browser session. The user can access their conversations and have data communicated on logged out pages for 1 week, as long as the session isn’t intentionally terminated with `Intercom(’shutdown’); `, which usually happens on logout. |
_clck |
PERSISTENT | 365 days | Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site, on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
AWSALB |
PERSISTENT | 7 days | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. |
AWSALBCORS |
PERSISTENT | 7 days | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSALB. |
4.3 Analytics Cookies
| Cookie Name | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga |
PERSISTENT | 365 days | 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 site’s analytics reports. |
_gat_UA- |
PERSISTENT | Expire once you close your browser. | 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. |
_gclxxxx |
PERSISTENT | 90 days | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, and it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
_gid |
PERSISTENT | 1 day | This cookie is used for Google Analytics to store and update a unique value for each page visited. |
4.4 Marketing Cookies
Note: This includes sales and marketing emails.
| Cookie Name | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
_fbp |
PERSISTENT | 90 days | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
_gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
PERSISTENT | Expire once you close your browser. | Google Analytics |
_rdt_uuid |
PERSISTENT | 90 days | This cookie is set by Reddit and is used for remarketing on reddit.com |
_uetsid |
PERSISTENT | 1 day | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. |
AnalyticsSyncHistory |
PERSISTENT | 30 days | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third-party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason, it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
bscookie |
PERSISTENT | 365 days | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third-party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason, it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
CONSENT |
PERSISTENT | 365 days | 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. |
fr |
PERSISTENT | 90 days | cookie is used to deliver, measure, and improve the relevancy of ads |
GPS |
PERSISTENT | Expire once you close your browser | Detecting a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographic GPS location. |
IDE |
PERSISTENT | 390 days | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised advertising |
lang |
SESSION | Expire once you close your browser | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third-party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason, it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
li_gc |
PERSISTENT | 6 months | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third-party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason, it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
lidc |
PERSISTENT | 1 day | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third-party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason, it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
lissc |
PERSISTENT | 365 days | Used for routing from LinkedIn Share buttons & advertising services. |
MUID |
PERSISTENT | 365 days | This domain is owned by Mircosoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing. |
reddaid |
PERSISTENT | 730 days | Saves the information about log-on Reddit user for the purpose of the advertisement recommendation and updating the content, the content of the cookie is confirmed within the conditions of the Reddit use. |
SRM_B |
PERSISTENT | 389 days | This domain is owned by Mircosoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing. |
test_cookie |
PERSISTENT | Expire once you close your browser | Used by Google to check if your browser supports cookies. |
UserMatchHistory |
PERSISTENT | 30 days | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third-party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason, it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. |
YSC |
SESSION | Expire once you close your browser | 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. |
ANONCHK |
PERSISTENT | Expire once you close your browser | This cookie is used by Microsoft for storing the session ID for a user. This cookie ensures that clicks from advertisement on the Bing search engine are verified and it is used for reporting purposes and for personalization. |
4.5 Consent Mode
| Cookie Name | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
Ad_storage |
Retained only by Google | Controls advertising cookies usage. | |
Analytics_storage |
Retained only by Google | Controls analytics cookies usage | |
Ad_user_data |
Retained only by Google | Is used to determine whether the user gives consent for Google advertisement purposes | |
Ad_personalization |
Retained only by Google | Controls whether data can be used for ads personalization |
Further details can be found on Google link: https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/10718549?hl=en
5.0 Cookie Management
5.1 Website Control
When you access our website, you will receive a notification informing you that our website uses cookies along with an option of whether to browse using cookies along with a link to our Privacy Notice - ServerChoice.com
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. By default, all cookies, except necessary cookies, are disabled. By accepting the cookies, you consent to the processing of data about them by Bulletproof for the purposes set out above.
You can choose not to use cookies by not accepting the option and still access our website without enabling the cookies. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
5.2 Browser Control
You also have the ability to accept or decline cookies through their internet browser software and can modify these settings to accept, decline and remove cookies if you prefer. Your choices will include the ability to switch off cookies completely and removing cookies by deleting them when you leave our site. If you do switch cookies off, you may find problems with the operation of our website. To delete cookies, select |Tools button, Safety, delete browser history and instructions on how to do so, for some of the most common browsers, are detailed below.
5.3 Anonymous Tracking
You can opt out of anonymous tracking from third party analytics cookies by clicking on the links of our service providers here:
Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
6.0 Further Information
6.1 Contact Us
If you would like any further information about the use of cookies on this website, please contact us at [email protected]
6.2 Additional Notices
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other, more specific, privacy notices we may provide when we are collecting or processing personal data about you, so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your personal data.
Our website Privacy Notice is available at Privacy Notice - ServerChoice.com
6.3 Changes to Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this policy from time to time and the latest version of the policy will always be displayed on our website. You should check this policy from time to time to see any updates.
This policy was last updated on 24/04/2024.
