Cookies
This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, DARA Delegated Authority Reviewers Association, use cookies and similar technologies on our website, https://www.delauth.com (our website).
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time in order to keep you fully informed about our latest practices involving cookies and similar information-gathering technologies on our website.
This Cookies Policy is effective from 9th January 2020.
'Essential' cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website.
'Non-essential' cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so.
For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.
Contents
- About cookies
- Types of cookies used
- Essential cookies
- Non-essential cookies
- How to accept or reject cookies
- Copyright
About Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.
Essential and non-essential cookies
Cookies can be classified as either 'essential' or 'non-essential'.
Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:
- used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
- strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.
Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).
Session and persistent cookies
Cookies can be classified as either 'session' or 'persistent', depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.
Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
First and third party cookies
Cookies can be classified as 'first party' or 'third party'.
First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.
Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.
If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
Types of cookies used
First Party Cookies
| Name | Essential/Non-essential | Session/Persistent | Expiry | Purpose |
| PHPSESSID | Essential | Session | End of the session | A first party, session cookie which is created by PHP when a session is created. Data is not stored in the cookie; the value is a key which is used to obtain the data which is stored on the server in a database table. The session data is used to allow a user to remain logged in or to remember the contents of a shopping cart for example. |
| CookieNotice | Essential | Persistent | 30 days | A first party, persistent cookie to recognise whether you have accepted the use of cookies on our website. |
| _csrf | Essential | Session | End of the session | A first party, session cookie designed to prevent cross site request forgeries. This ensures that a request made to the site originates from the site rather than a third party source. Read more about csrf attacks. |
| _gat | Non-essential | Session | End of the session | Google Analytics. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. |
| _ga | Non-essential | Persistent | 2 years | Google Analytics. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. |
| _gid | Non-essential | Persistent | 24 hours | Google Analytics. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. |
Essential cookies
These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested. We use the following essential cookies on our website:
PHPSESSID: A first party, session cookie which is created by PHP when a session is created. Data is not stored in the cookie; the value is a key which is used to obtain the data which is stored on the server in a database table. The session data is used to allow a user to remain logged in or to remember the contents of a shopping cart for example. The expiry is end of the session.
CookieNotice: A first party, persistent cookie to recognise whether you have accepted the use of cookies on our website. The expiry is 30 days.
_csrf: A first party, session cookie designed to prevent cross site request forgeries. This ensures that a request made to the site originates from the site rather than a third party source. Read more about csrf attacks. The expiry is end of the session.
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.
Non-essential cookies
We use the following types of non-essential first party cookies on our website.
- Analytical (or performance) cookies
Analytical (or performance) cookies
Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. We use the following analytical cookies on our website:
We use Google Analytics cookies on our website. Google Analytics cookies help us understand how you engage and interact with our website, including how you came to our website, which pages you visited, for how long and what you clicked on, and your location (based on your IP address)
The information we collect using analytical cookies is collected on an anonymised basis.
More information
Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics' privacy policy, which is available here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
How to opt in or out from analytical cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business.
How to accept or reject cookies
There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below:
You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.
You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org
Accepting or rejecting cookies
Browser settings
You can delete cookies that are currently placed on your browser by selecting the option to clear your browsing history and ensuring that the option to delete all cookies is selected. Clicking clear your browsing history will then remove all cookies stored on your device. Some browsers also allow you to delete cookies individually if you prefer to do so.
For further information on accepting and rejecting cookies for particular browsers, please see the links below:
Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in 'incognito' mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.
Existing cookies
To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.
Copyright
The copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved.