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Why we use cookies
We use organdonation.scot cookie tracking data to make informed decisions on whether the site is meeting your needs, which leads to us making improvements. For example, we monitor how much traffic each part of the site gets and work to improve areas which are not being found when they should be.
Google Analytics
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Measuring site usage
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use organdonation.scot. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting your needs and to help us make improvements.
We store information about:
- The pages you visit and how long you spend on each page
- How you got to organdonation.scot
- What you click on while you're visiting organdonation.scot
We do not:
- Collect information that can be used to identify you; for example, we never receive your name or address
- Make any attempt to find out the identities of people visiting organdonation.scot
- Allow the tools that we use to find out the identities of people visiting organdonation.scot
- Sell, trade or give your details to third parties, unless we are required to do it by law
- All information we get through cookies and analytics will be treated in confidence.
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| Name | Purpose | Expiry |
| _fbp | These cookies are used by Facebook to deliver, measure and improve the relevancy of ads shown either on Facebook or other digital platforms powered by Facebook. | 3 months |
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_ga |
This is used to understand and differentiate between different users. | 38 months |
| _gat | We use Google Tag Manager to tailor our tracking in case we have different elements that are being tested. For example, setting a tag to track how far a user is having to scroll down a long page. The _gat tag pushes the request rate through quicker. |
1 minute
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| _gcl_au | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
3 months
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| _gid | _gid has a different ID for each page set on, and a timestamp. This assists with plotting user journeys. | 24 hours |
| _hjid | This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
12 months
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_hjAbsolute |
This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
Session |
| _hjIncludedIn PageviewSample |
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily PageView limit. | 30 minutes |
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YSC |
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
Session |
| spin | Facebook - These help to deliver our advertising when you visit Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook Advertising. | 5 days |
| datr | Facebook - The purpose of the datr cookie is to identify the web browser being used to connect to Facebook independent of the logged in user. This cookie plays a key role in Facebook’s security and site integrity features. | 6 months |
| dpr | Facebook - the "dpr" and "wd" cookies, each with a lifespan of seven days, for purposes including to deliver an optimal experience for your device's screen. | 5 days |
| fr | Facebook - the "fr" cookie is used to deliver, measure and improve the relevancy of ads, with a lifespan of 90 days. | 3 months |
| presence | Facebook - The presence cookie is used to contain the user’s chat state. For example, which chat tabs are open. This cookie is a session cookie. | session |
| xs | Facebook - Helps Facebook remember your browser so you don't have to keep logging in to Facebook and so you can more easily log in to Facebook via third-party apps and websites. | 1 year |
| c_user | Facebook - The c_user cookie contains the user ID of the currently logged in user. | 3 months |
| sb | Facebook - Allows Facebook to recover your account in the event that you forget your password, or to require additional authentication if you tell us that your account has been hacked."sb" and "dbln" cookies enable Facebook to identify your browser securely. | 6 months |
| CM360 Analytics | Cookies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how users interact with a particular service. These insights allow services both to improve content and to build better features that improve the user’s experience. | 6 months |
| CM360 Analytics | Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. | 6 months |