Cookie policy
We use cookies on our website. You’ll find a notice about this on our homepage as well, which also links back to this policy.
If you use this website after we’ve displayed the notice to you, we will treat this as your consent to our use of cookies for the purposes that we’ve explained below in our policy.
We last updated our policy on May 7, 2019.
1. Information about cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website.
There are 4 different types of cookies:
Strictly-necessary cookies (required for the website to run). These allow you to do things like log in securely.
Performance cookies (which measure how many visitors use our site, which pages they visit and how they interact with the site). These help us to improve our website.
Functionality cookies (which remember specific visitor’s preferences for the way they use our site, e.g. language settings or font size).
Targeting/advertising cookies (these collect information about individual visitors that enable us, or third parties, to provide relevant advertisements to those who have visited our site)
Our website may use each type of cookie in order to:
Make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable
Improve our services
Recognise you whenever you visit this website and distinguish you from other users of our site
Obtain information about your preferences and use of our site
Provide you with advertising that is tailored to your interests. In this instance however, there are no cookies categorised as marketing and promotional cookies on flinkworks.co
Carry out research and data analysis to help us to improve our content and services and to better understand our customer preferences and interests
Your web browser places cookies on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about you. For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
We have set out specific details of the cookies we use on our site in section 4 below.
2. Third-party cookies
Like many other websites, third parties may also set cookies on our website. These third parties are responsible for the cookies they set on our site and we have no control over them. For further information on how their cookies policies work, please visit their websites.
3. Managing cookies
You can manage cookies yourself. We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
You can set your web browser to refuse cookies, delete cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.
You will need to visit the web browser’s site to manage, but for ease we have provided links to popular browsers below:
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Microsoft Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/ph31411?locale=en_US
For further information about cookies and how to manage or disable them please go to: www.aboutcookies.org.
Please also note that if you change/block cookies then:
some parts of our website may not function properly or as well as they otherwise might;
changes will apply across all websites that you visit (unless you choose to block cookies only from particular websites); and
the settlings that you change will only apply on the device on which you change the settings and will not apply across all other devices that you use.
4. Specific details on the cookies we set
Account related cookies, categorised as Strictly necessary and Functional cookies.
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out. There are two types:
i) Session (Transient) cookies are cookies erased when you close your browse and do not collect information from your computer. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.
ii) Persistent (Permanent or Stored) cookies are cookies stored on your hard drive until they expire (i.e. the are based on a set expiration date) or until you delete them. In this case there are two persistent cookies: smSession (with a life span of two weeks) and svSession (with a life span of 2 years). These cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behaviour or user preferences for a specific site.
We collect the following categories of data:
(1) Information about the browser type and version used
(2) The operating system of the user
(3) The IP address of the user
(4) Date and time of access
Email newsletters related cookies
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
We use MailChimp for email campaigns; single pixel gifs are automatically placed, also known as web beacons, in every email we send. These are tiny graphic files that contain unique identifiers that enable us and Mailchimp to recognise when subscribers have opened an email or clicked certain links. These technologies record each subscribers email address,
Mailchimp collects IP address, date, and time associated with each open and click for a campaign. Mailchimp uses this data to create reports about how an email campaign performed and what actions subscribers took.
Forms related cookies
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including Facebook and Instagram, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
We have set out in the table below details of each of the cookies on our site, a description of what they do and, where relevant, external links that provide more information about them:
Flink cookies
1. XSRF-TOKEN
This is a random value generated by the website to prevent CSRF attacks.
No data collected as such. This is a security token. The cookie contains a random value generated by the server which has nothing to do with the user's account or profile data.
The browser sends this cookie with each request to the server. The server looks at the cookie and rejects any requests that have the wrong value in the cookie (i.e. could be a forged 3rd party malicious request).
No data is kept, as such. The website will keep regenerating a new random value and storing it in the cookie each time the user visits a new page on the site.
Expires after 2 hours, but is replaced by a new value with each server request.
2. flink_session
This is a standard PHP session identifier.
No data collected as such. The cookie contains a random value generated by the server which has nothing to do with the user's account or profile data.
The browser sends this cookie with each request to the server. The server uses the value contained in the cookie to identify the correct session in the application's memory, so that it can continue to serve the correct content to the user as they proceed along their journey on the site.
No data is kept. The server stops keeping track of (deletes) session IDs when an ID has been inactive for 2 hours. As a result, a user who's ID has expired will find that they have automatically been logged out of their account.
Expires after 2 hours, but is replaced by a new value with each server request.
3rd party cookies
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information.
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Type of data collected:
- Determine which domain to measure
- Distinguish unique users
- Throttle the request rate
- Remember the number and time of previous visits
- Remember traffic source information
- Determine the start and end of a session
- Remember the value of visitor-level custom variables
Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. Expires after two years.
_gid
Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. Expires after 1 day.
_gat_gtag_UA_131491193_1
Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users. Expires after 1 day.
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Generator of GDPR Cookies Policy and the GDPR Privacy Policy.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
Email: info@flinkworks.co
