Which cookies does this website use?

Our website uses both first and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are set by Ecology and third-party cookies are set by another site.

We use cookies to allow the website to work properly and these are considered strictly necessary so are always on (active). We also use cookies for performance and analysis, advertising and sometimes to interact with social networking sites. You can control your use of these cookies, but they are always turned off by default.

The tables below list the cookies we use on our website and explain why we use them. We believe in only gathering information that is necessary.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are considered strictly necessary for the sites to function, are set by the Ecology website, and so are always on (active). They allow users to log in to their online account with Ecology and help us to identify we are dealing with the same user when they move from one page to the next while logged in. The user key within the cookie is encrypted for security and is destroyed when you close your browser.

Cookie	Placed By	Functionality	Purpose	Expiration
CookieControl	Ecology	This cookie is used to remember your Cookie choices from your first visit to the website.	Essential	1 Year
ProVisionCustomerSession	Ecology	To remember your login to Ecology Online.	Essential	Session
_RequestVerificationToken	Ecology	To identify and secure the user logged into Ecology Online.	Essential	Session
X-Mapping-*	Ecology	To provide load balancing functionality	Essential	Session

 

Performance and Analysis Cookies

These cookies enable us to understand how users use our website, to understand where a user has come from and to help improve the way our site works. They are set by our analytics partners, Google and Hotjar. All information is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not keep these cookies on, we will not be able to monitor the performance of our website.

Cookie	Placed By	Functionality	Purpose	Expiration
SRCHD	Bing (Microsoft Advertising)	This cookie is an analytics service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website.	Performance and Analysis	2 Years
SRCHHPGUSER	Bing (Microsoft Advertising)	This cookie is an analytics service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website.	Performance and Analysis	2 years
SRCHUSR	Bing (Microsoft Advertising)	This cookie is an analytics service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website.	Performance and Analysis	2 Years
SRCHUID	Bing (Microsoft Advertising)	This cookie is an analytics service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website.	Performance and Analysis	2 Years
_uetsid	Bing (Microsoft Advertising)	This cookie is an analytics service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website.	Performance and Analysis	2 Years
_uetvid	Bing (Microsoft Advertising)	This cookie is an analytics service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website.	Performance and Analysis	2 Years
_ga	Google Analytics	Used to distinguish website users.	Performance and Analysis	2 Years
_gat_gtag	Google Analytics	Used to analyse visitor browsing habits, flow, source and other information. Expires immediately.	Performance and Analysis	Immediately
_gid	Google Analytics	Used to distinguish website users.	Performance and Analysis	24 Hours
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	Hotjar	Used to detect the first pageview session of a user.	Performance and Analysis	30 Minutes
_hjFirstSeen	Hotjar	Identifies a new user's first session.	Performance and Analysis	Session
_hjSessionUser_	Hotjar	Set when a user first lands on a page, and ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID.	Performance and Analysis	365 Days
_hjSession_	Hotjar	Holds current session data, and ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session.	Performance and Analysis	30 Minutes
_hjTLDTest	Hotjar	Enables Hotjar to try to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of page hostname. It means that cookies can be shared across subdomains.	Performance and Analysis	Session
_hjIncludedInSessionSample	Hotjar	Set to determine if a user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.	Performance and Analysis	30 Minutes
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	Hotjar	Used to detect the first pageview session of a user.	Performance and Analysis	30 Minutes

 

Advertising cookies

These cookies help make the advertisements you see on websites and platforms as relevant to the user as possible. This is based on users previous browsing activity and is called 'retargeting' or sometimes 'remarketing'.

Cookie	Placed By	Functionality	Purpose	Expiration
MUID	Microsoft Clarify	To store and track visits across websites.	Advertising and tracking	1 Year
IDE	Google Doubleclick	Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.	Advertising and tracking	390 Days
_fbp	Facebook	To store and track visits across websites	Advertising and tracking	3 months

Email cookies

We use Force24’s marketing automation platform.  Force24 cookies are first party cookies. They start working at the point of when you accept the cookie on this website. They let us understand our audience and how they view the site. This helps us to improve and optimise our marketing activity.

Cookie	Placed By	Functionality	Purpose	Expiration
f24_autold	Force24	A temporary identifier on a local machine or phone browser that helps track anonymous information. Links with f24_personId.	Tracking	6 months (if left anonymous) Non-essential, first party, 10 years, persistent.
f24_personId	Force24	This is an ID generated per individual contact in the Force24 system. Allows to track behaviour and form submissions into the Force24 system from outside sources per user. This is used for personalisation and to segment decisions for further communications.	Tracking	Non-essential, first party, 10 years, persistent.

The information stored by Force24 cookies remains private until:

• Our website is visited via clicking from an email or SMS message, sent via the Force24 platform and cookies are accepted on the website.
• A user of the website completes a form containing email address from either our website or our Force24 landing pages.

The Force24 cookies will stay on a device for 10 years unless they are deleted.

Other tracking

We also use technologies such as tracking pixels and link tracking to see how you use the site.

 Device & browser type and open statistics

All emails have a tracking pixel (a tiny invisible image) with a query string in the URL. Within the URL we have user details to identify who opened an email for statistical purposes.

Link Tracking

All links within emails and SMS messages sent from the Force24 platform contain a unique tracking reference, this reference help us identify who clicked an email for statistical purposes.

 

Social networking cookies

These cookies are set by the social media provider (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) when you share or like a page on our website. The Ecology website does not currently use any social networking cookies. We will update this page if this situation changes.