How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file that is placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once added the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse information about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the information is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie does not in any way give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the information you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may in some cases prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

The cookies we use whilst using our site

First party cookies

• Cookie prefixed with pureCookieNotify - Used to store your choice of accepting cookies whilst using our site. Will store the value "read". (Expiry 12 months)
• CONCRETE5_LOGIN - Used when successfully authenticated into our site with a valid username and password. Stores the value 1. (Expiry 24 hours)
• CONCRETE5 - Used to store a session ID such as 62125ef5ac964ad046afc727ff5a5b11 whilst authenticated into our site. (Expiry 24 hours)

Third-party cookies

• Cookies with names prefixed by _ga - Stores information used by Google Analytics to track user activity on the site. Will store a random value such as "GA1.3.1445072514.1444339844". (Expiry 2 years)
• Cookies with names prefixed by __atuvc and/or __atuvs - This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count. Will store a random value such as "3%7C51" and/or "5675f12c42355e62002" respectively. (Expiry Immediately)

In order to better serve our customers and visitors to our website, we use Google Analytics. For this service, Google sends cookies (small text files) to your computer which can be used to evaluate the use of the website and produce activity-based reports. No personal data is retained or accessed for any other use. Google stores the collected information on servers in the USA which may be transferred to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You can though protect your privacy even further by opting out of Google Analytics.