Cookie Policy

This is the Cookie Policy for www.civilgeo.com.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files, created by the website visited, that contain data. They are stored on the visitor’s computer to give the user access to various functions. Both session cookies and non-session cookies are used on this website (the “Site”). A session cookie is temporarily stored in the computer memory while the visitor is browsing the website. This cookie is erased when the user closes their web browser or after a certain time has passed (meaning that the session expires). A non-session cookie remains on the visitor’s computer until it is deleted.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies to save your site preferences and to learn more about the way visitors interact with our content and help us to improve the experience when visiting our site.

The Cookies We Set

  • Email newsletters related cookiesThis site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
  • Surveys related cookiesFrom time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
  • Forms related cookiesWhen you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
  • Site preferences cookiesIn order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

  • This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
  • We use adverts to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for further development. The behavioral advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant adverts where possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.
  • We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

Site functionality

The share function is used by visitors to recommend our Site and content on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Cookies store information on how visitors use the share function – although not at an individual level – so that the Site can be improved. If you do not accept cookies, no information is stored.

For some of the functions within our Site we use third party suppliers, for example, when you visit a page with videos embedded from or links to YouTube or Vimeo. These videos or links (and any other content from third party suppliers) may contain third party cookies and you may wish to consult the policies of these third party websites for information regarding their use of cookies.

Cookies we use:

Essential

These cookies are required for the site to function.

GDPR Consent Cookies Cookie Name Domain Duration
wordpress_gdpr_allowed_services .civilgeo.com 6 months
wordpress_gdpr_cookies_declined .civilgeo.com 6 months
wordpress_gdpr_cookies_allowed .civilgeo.com 6 months
Google reCaptcha (Third Party) _GRECAPTCHA www.google.com 6 months
NID .google.com 6 months
Website Cookies wp_lang .civilgeo.com Session
wordpress_test_cookie .civilgeo.com Session
YouTube (Third Party) NID .google.com 6 months
INVISITOR_INFO1_LIVE .youtube.com 6 months
YSC .youtube.com Session
Vimeo (Third Party) vuid .vimeo.com 35 days
player .vimeo.com 1 month
__cf_bm .vimeo.com 1 month

Analytics

This Site uses Google Analytics which use cookies. At the aggregate level, cookies store information on how visitors use the Site, including the number of pages displayed, where the visitor comes from, and the number of visits, to improve the website and ensure a good user experience. If you do not accept cookies, no information is stored.

Google Analytics (Third Party) Cookie Name Domain Duration
_gat_gtag_UA_XXXXX_1 .civilgeo.com 1 minute
_gid .civilgeo.com 24 hours
_ga .civilgeo.com 13 months
NID .google.com 6 months
1P_JAR .google.com 30 days
AEC .google.com 6 months
DV www.google.com 1 day
NID .google.com 6 months
OTZ www.google.com 30 days

Marketing

The Site uses Facebook Pixel, LinkedIn Pixel and ZoomInfo to serve you relevant advertisements. If you do not accept cookies, no information is stored.

Facebook (Third Party) Cookie Name Domain Duration
_fbp .civilgeo.com 3 months
LinkedIn (Third Party) Cookie Name Domain Duration
lang .adsymptotic.com Session
U .adsymptotic.com 90 days
lidc .linkedin.com 1 month
AnalyticsSyncHistory .linkedin.com 30 days
UserMatchHistory .linkedin.com 30 days
bcookie .www.linkedin.com 1 year
li_sugr .linkedin.com 90 days
JSESSIONID .www.linkedin.com Session
lang .linkedin.com Session
ZoomInfo (Third Party) Cookie Name Domain Duration
ab .agkn.com 1 year
u .agkn.com 1 year
demdex .doubleclick.net 6 months
dpm .doubleclick.net .dpm.demdex.net
i .openx.net 1 year
_cc_id .crwdcntrl.net
_cc_dc .crwdcntrl.net
IDE .doubleclick.net 1 year 1 month
rla3 .rlcdn.com 1 year
pxrc .rlcdn.com 60 days
ssi .sitescout.com 1 year
visitorId .ws.zoominfo.com 1 year
CookieConsent .zoominfo.com 1 year
__cf_bm .zoominfo.com 1 minute

Preferences

This Site uses FreshChat to provide chat support, which use cookies. The cookies are stored to save your session details so the chat data can be reloaded as you visit other pages.

FreshChat (Third Party) Cookie Name Domain Duration
_fw_crm_v .www.civilgeo.com 1 year
zarget_visitor_info .freshchat.com 1 year
zarget_user_id .freshchat.com 1 year
_gid .freshchat.com 1 day
_gcl_au .freshchat.com 90 days
_ga .freshchat.com 30 days
{xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxxxxx} .freshchat.com 1 year

How to reject cookies?

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about a visitor.

However you can choose to reject or block the cookies set by the website by changing your browser settings – see the “Help function” within your browser for further details. Please note that most browsers automatically accept cookies so if you do not wish cookies to be used, you may need to actively delete or block the cookies.

For information on the use of cookies in mobile phone browsers and for details on how to reject or delete such cookies, please refer to your mobile phone manual.

More Information

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