Use of Cookies
Updated on 5th August 2021
We (WaterWipes UC, trading as “WaterWipes”) mentioned in our Privacy Policy that we use cookies and related technologies (collectively referred to as “cookies”) to provide you with the services accessible through our website (“Website”) and other services (together the “Services”).
This policy explains the types of cookies we use and why, and how you can change your cookie preferences (the “Cookie Policy”).
You should read this Cookie Policy alongside our Privacy Policy.
A cookie is a small file consisting of a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit websites, that uniquely identifies your browser or device. Such recognition notably helps the efficient operation of our Website and Services. Cookies are also commonly used to provide information about your use of the Website and Services and display content and advertising that is relevant to you. Other similar technologies like pixels and local storage can also be used by WaterWipes to achieve these outcomes.
Cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, advertising you have clicked on, the type of browser you’re using, your IP address or a unique identification number so that the website can ‘remember’ you on your return visit.
Like most websites, we use cookies for a variety of purposes as further detailed in Section 4 of this Cookie Policy.
These technologies help us understand how our Services are being used, help you navigate our Services, help remember your preferences, and generally improve your experience in using our Services. Cookies can also help ensure marketing you might see online is more relevant to you and your interests. This website uses cookies to track usage and help improve features and services of the Website. Statistical and analytical information from cookies provides us with general and not individually specific information about the number of people who visit this Website; the number of people who return to this Website; the pages that they visit; where they were before they came to this Website and the page in the Website at which they exited. This information helps us monitor traffic on our website so that we can manage the Website’s capacity and efficiency. It also helps us to understand which parts of this Website are most popular, and generally to assess user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site.
There are two types of cookie you may encounter when using the Website;
First-party cookies are cookies that are placed on your device by WaterWipes; these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used for the purposes described below.
Third party cookies: we also use third party cookies. These cookies are set by third party domains and are set to enhance our site, for example Facebook or Twitter, have their own cookies, which are controlled by them.
Some of these third parties use their own anonymous cookies to track how many people have seen a particular ad, or to track how many people have seen it more than once.
These third party advertising cookies may be used by those third parties to anonymously target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to the Website.
The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies that the user should consult before giving its consent to cookie repository.
A listing of the first-party and third party cookies used on our Website together with a description of their respective purposes is set forth in Section 4 below.
Cookies can be classified as follows:
According to their storage duration:
Some cookies will stay on your device only for as long as you are accessing our Website during a single browsing session and so are temporary. These are known as session cookies.
Other cookies are stored on your device for longer periods to enable our Website to “remember” you and your preferences. These are known as persistent cookies.
According to their main purpose:
Some of the cookies we use are strictly necessary for our Website to operate effectively and are not subject to your prior consent. Note that certain types of performance cookies may also be strictly necessary for the proper operation of our Website and as such, also exempted from prior consent.
Others are not necessary but are used for a variety of purposes which are outlined in the tables below; these cookies are subject to your prior consent.
You can accept or refuse cookies and manage your preferences at any time as specified in Section 5 below.
These are cookies which are essential for our Web Site to operate and your navigation. For example, cookies that are used to remember the goods you put in your shopping cart or to help a webpage load quickly, or to remember your preferred language when such personalisation is an intrinsic and expected element of the Service.
Here are the strictly necessary cookies we use and why:
Purpose:
Website to function
Help page loading speed
Remember your cookie preference
Detect issues on the website
Cookie Names:
XSRF-TOKEN
wwipes_session
__cflb
__cfbm
_cfobinfo
_cfuseob
__cfwaitingroom
iubcs-94245899
usprivacy
iubcs-252372
locale
country
rememberusertoken
euconsent
euconsent-v2
loginserviceloginnewreliccom_tokens
vid
Supplier Details:
WaterWipes: First party cookie, Session cookie
Cloud Flare: Third party cookie, Session cookie
Iubenda: Third party cookie, Persistent cookie
New Relic: Third party cookie, Session cookie
These cookies are used on the basis of WaterWipes’ legitimate interests. Since they are strictly necessary, your prior consent to the use of those cookies is not required.
These Cookies help us to improve the way our website works. For example, they gather information that allows us to understand status of a video played, display / hide onsite poll, as well as working in back-end to improve your onsite experience.
Here are the Experience Enhancement Cookies we use and why:
Purpose:
Play videos on the Website. Videos don’t play if disabled.
Display e-book
Technical cookies for website to work as per your preferences
Display on-site poll and quiz modules
Cookie Name
vuid
isloggedin
hasloggedin
featurenoticevrvom
player
featurenoticevrrmm
VISITORINFO1LIVE
PREF
YSC
pm_sess
PHPSESSID
_ga
gist_id_zhb7xwmu
gist_identified_zhb7xwmu
sparrow_id
__zlcmid
_biz_flagsA
_ga_PGV1K2BN4M
_biz_pendingA
_biz_uid
_gaexp
gates_cohorts
closesharecompletion_body
sgb_n
sgb_v
Vimeo: Third party cookie, Session cookie
You Tube: Third party cookie, Session cookie
Simplebooklet: Third party cookie, Session cookie
Iubenda: Third party cookie, Session cookie
Alchemer: Third party cookie, Session cookie
These cookies allow the Website to remember choices you have made such as your user name or the region you are in. They therefore provide a more enhanced and personalised experience.
Here are the functionality cookies we use and why:
Purpose:
Enable to share web pages
Technical cookies for website to work as per your preferences
Cookie Name:
sharethiscookietest
stshares#
sorting_order
sorting_type
Supplier Details:
ShareThis Third party cookie, Session cookie
Iubenda: Third party cookie, Session cookie
These cookies record information about your visit to our Website to help target advertising and to build a profile of you. For example, the pages you have visited, the links you have followed, the number of times you have seen an ad, the ads you have clicked on and your browsing habits / interests.
Our advertising partners use this information to make the ads you see both on and off our Website more personalised and relevant to your interests. They may combine it with other information they have about you, for example information about your browsing habits on other websites or information they have obtained from third party data brokers. This will then be used to create a profile of you so that relevant advertising is shown to you. You might also see our advertisements on other websites that you visit.
Targeting / advertising cookies may also be used for other purposes such as ad click fraud detection, market research, product improvement and debugging.
They also include social media plug-ins which enable you to share our Website content via your social media account(s) or easily share information with others. We have a presence on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube. If you click on any of the Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube icons on our website, you will be taken to our pages or profiles on those platforms. The platforms may then start tracking your behaviour using Cookies for their own purposes; for example, to better understand your interests so that they can present relevant content or advertising to you. Data about you may also be transmitted to the social media channel even if you don’t click on the plug-in. The social media platforms will provide us with statistical information, which we use to help understand how you and our other users interact with our social medial presence. All these platforms provide you with some control over their use of non-essential tracking technology and you can find details of how to exercise this control by reviewing their privacy and cookie notices. We have contractual arrangements in place with the social media channels we use. Please contact us for more information (see contact details in Section 7 of this Cookie Policy).
Here are the targeting and advertising cookies we use and why:
Purpose:
Social media advertising – to share relevant content on social channel
Used as Technical cookies in order for Social / Advertising cookies to work as per your preferences
Digital banners, videos search advertising
Cookie Name:
__fbp
_fbc
c_user
datr
fr
sb
xs
pinunauth
pinterestct_rt
pinterestct_ua
pinterestcm
pinterestsess
derivedepik
v3
hp2_id.557524931
AMP-CONSENT
pkid.1.04aa
pkref.1.04aa
_uetvid iubenda
_adrollconsent_params on AU website
TDCPM
TDID
_adrollfpc
_arv4
test_cookie
IDE
RUL
pagead/landing
p2
si
gclaw
ANID
CONSENT
NID
__Secure-3PAPISID
__Secure-3PSID
1P_JAR
__Secure-3PSIDCC
Supplier Details:
Facebook: Third party cookie, Persistent cookie
Pinterest: Third party cookie, Persistent cookie
Iubenda: Third party cookie, Session cookie
Google Adsense: Third party cookie, Persistent cookie
adsrvr.org: Third party cookie, Persistent cookie (Australia only)
Google: Third party cookie, Persistent cookie
DoubleClick: Third party cookie, Persistent cookie
owneriq.net: Third party cookie, Persistent cookie
Adroll: Third party cookie, Persistent cookie
To learn more about how Google uses information from the data collected on our site, please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. For opt-out information, check here https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
These cookies are used to collect data for analytics and measurement to understand how our website is used. For example, we analyse data about your visits to our sites to do things like optimise design or information we provide on our Website. We use a variety of tools to do this, including Google Analytics.
Here are the measurement cookies we use and why:
Purpose:
Gather visitor’s behaviour data on our website in order to improve user experience on the Website.
Improve experience by enabling personalization (eg: remembering language and region), as well as enabling certain features eg: tracking progress on our videos
Web pages can be shared using this tool.
Cookie Name:
JSESSIONID
intercom-session-cyym0u3i
intercom-id-cyym0u3i
bizpendingA
ajsanonymousid
mktotrk
bizuid
biznA
dcgtm_UA-#
_ga
_gat
_gid
gatUA-#
OTZ
_CEFT
_ce.s
cecookiecheck
cegettopleveldomain
ce_clock
ceneedsecure_cookie
cean
dripclient_9574608
cean_asoc
_ce.cch
_ce.gtld
fpestid
pxcelBcnLcy
pxcelPagedefaultc010_B
Google Tag Manager: Third party cookie, Session cookie
Google Analytics: Third party cookie, Session cookie
Crazy Egg: Third party cookie, Session cookie
NewRelic: Third party cookie, Session cookie
ShareThis Third party cookie, Session cookie
When you first visit our Website, you have the possibility to accept or refuse all cookies or to manage your cookie preferences per purpose through our Consent Management interface before any cookie is stored on your device or read. Your choices will be stored for a period of 6 months. You can also manage your cookie preferences through your browser as further described below.
You are free to accept or refuse cookies, except for those cookies which are strictly necessary for our Website to operate. Note however that refusing cookies may restrict your use of the website and/or affect the way in which the Website or our Services operate. In particular, if you do this you may not be able to use all Services on our Website and and/or have access to every features that may make your browsing of our Website and use of our Services smoother. You will, however, still be able to view editorial content. Find out more about the use of cookies on http://www.cookiecentral.com.
Most browsers allow you to manage your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ie/.
If you use a smartphone, you can usually prevent cross-site tracking and block Cookies in the settings section on your device. You may also be able to visit websites without leaving a history by turning private browsing on. You should visit the support section of the website of your device for more information on how to do this.
If you want to disable specific third-party cookies, please consult the third party’s website or privacy and cookie policies as well as the cookie settings on your browser.
The following are links to the main third party advertising, analytics, survey and commenting platforms we use, each of which provides instructions on how to do this:
Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/
Ceazy Egg: http://www.crazyegg.com/
Google AdSense: http://www.google.com/intl/en/ads
Google AdWords: http://adwords.google.com/
Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/index.html
Google Tag Manager: https://tagmanager.google.com/
Google Map Widget: https://myaccount.google.com/yourdata/maps
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com
New Relic: http://www.newrelic.com/
TalentLMS: https://www.talentlms.com/privacy
YouTube Video Widget: https://www.youtube.com/
You can also visit the trade body representing these advertising bodies for more information on how to opt out of these cookies:
http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.
Our business changes constantly and our Cookie Policy will also change, so please review it frequently. We will inform you of any changes by posting the updated Cookie Policy on this page with its effective date. If the change is material, we will take reasonable steps to notify you.
If you have any questions or comments or if you would like to exercise any statutory rights, please contact us via email dataprotection@waterwipes.com.