SMOKE FREE COOKIE POLICY
Last updated: 01.08.2024.
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
- Our website (smokefreeapp.com) and the Smoke Free app (collectively the “Platform”) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the Platform. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you visit the Platform and allows us to improve the Platform. By continuing to use or visit the Platform, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
2. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
3.1. Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Platform. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Platform, use a shopping cart or use the services provided on the Platform.
3.2. Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of users and to see how users move around the Platform when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the Platform works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
3.3. Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to the Platform. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences or settings (for example, your choice of language or region).
3.4. Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Platform, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the Platform and any advertising that may be displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
4. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the tables below:
Essential Cookies
These cookies will be automatically deployed onto your device when you use the Platform
| Cookie Name | Purpose of Cookie and Information Collected | Cookie Duration |
|---|---|---|
| lastExternalReferrer | This item is used to determine the origin of your visit. | Persistent |
| hjActiveViewportIds | This item stores non-personal information on what subpages the visitor access for the purpose of optimising the visitor’s experience. | Persistent |
| hjViewportId | Saves the user’s screen size in order to adjust the size of images on the website. | Session |
| gt_autoswitch | Determines the preferred language of the visitor. Allows the website to set the preferred language upon the visitor’s re-entry. | Session |
| _grecaptcha | Necessary for the captcha to work. Stores a code to prevent user impersonation. | 6 months |
| lastExternalReferrerTime | This item is used for visitor evaluation. | Persistent |
Non-Essential Cookies
These cookies will be offered to you when you use the Platform – you may accept or decline them depending on whether you are happy for them to be deployed onto your device or not.
| Cookie Name | Purpose of Cookie and Information Collected | Cookie Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 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 sites analytics reports. | 1 year 1 month |
| _gid | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. | 1 day |
| _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 54 seconds |
| _ga_ZXWDR3BR9N | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. | 1 year 1 month |
| IDE | This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | 1 year |
| test_cookie | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor’s browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes |
5. Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
6. You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Alternatively, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org which provides general information about cookies and how you can manage cookies on your device. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the Platform.