What are Cookies?
Cookies are small files that websites place on your hard drive or browser to enable additional features of the website to work. Use of cookies is common practice, many websites use them and most internet browsers automatically accept cookies.
We will ask for your consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website.
Use of Cookies by Altecnic Ltd
We use cookies on the Altecnic website to collect information about how visitors use the website and to collect standard analytics to gather data to enhance the performance of our website.
However, our cookies do not gather any personally identifying information such as a person’s name or e-mail address and any information gathered by the use of cookies is compiled on an aggregate and anonymous basis.
The table below provides further details about the cookies which are currently in use on our website and a description of the purpose of each of these cookies.
| Cookie | Purpose of the Cookie | Intrusiveness to Customer | Expiry | Will areas of the website fail if I disable the Cookies? |
| __utma * | Google Analytics: Used to distinguish users and sessions. | Low | 2 years | No |
| __utmb * | Google Analytics: Used to determine new sessions/visits | Low | 30 minutes | No |
| __utmc * | Google Analytics: Used to determine whether user was in a new session/visit | Low | End of Browser Session. | No |
| __utmt * | Google Analytics: Used to throttle request rate | Low | 10 minutes | No |
| __utmz * | Google Analytics: Stores the traffic source for each user. | Low | 6 months | No |
| ga | Used to distinguish users. | Low | 2 years | No |
| URL#lang | Stores language for the website | Low | At end of session | No |
| cookieconsent_dismissed | Monitors when the popup cookie warning has been dismissed | Low | 365 days | No |
| ASPSESSIONIDXXXXXXXX | Tags a site user to their session on the site. | Low | At end of session | Yes |
* Information on Google Cookies obtained from developers.google.com
Visitors to our website
If you want to, you can disable cookies from your browser and delete all cookies that are stored on your computer. You can do this as often you want to.
To find out how to do this for your particular browser you can go to "help" on your browser's menu or you can visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html.
You need to be aware that if you choose to disable cookies from your browser, it may prevent you from taking full advantage of the Altecnic website, as some or all of the areas of the website may fail to work for you.
You will see from the table above that certain cookies which we use on our website are considered to be strictly necessary for the operation of certain aspects of the website. Therefore, please be aware that if these cookies are disabled, we may be unable to provide certain services.