What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages.
Why are we giving you this information?
This information is provided to comply with recent legislation by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO)
This site does not use third party advertisers, and as such, no advertising cookies are placed on this site, so you will never see remarketing adverts on this site.
Different types of cookies
First party cookies
First party cookies are those set by the website you’re visiting. These are often used to understand how people are using the website you’re visiting to help improve and enhance it for future visitors.
Third party cookies
Third party cookies are those cookies set by someone other than the website owner. This could be content shared via the website you’re visiting from external sources, such as YouTube, Flickr, Instagram or other social media channels. These external channels may set their own cookies.
We have no control over third party cookies.
Advertising cookies
We do not set any third-party advertising cookies on our websites.
Session cookies
These are stored while you’re browsing. They get deleted from your device when you close your browser e.g. Internet Explorer or Safari.
Persistent cookies
Persistent cookies are used to remember your browsing preferences for when you next visit the website.
Adobe Flash cookies
Adobe flash is often used for video content being displayed on any given website.
Adobe use their own cookies to remember your preferences and track your browsing. You can manage these Adobe Flash cookies on the Adobe website.
Sharing Recycle for Greater Manchester on social networks
If you take the opportunity to ‘share’ our content with friends through social networks – such as Facebook and Twitter – you may be sent cookies from these websites. We don’t control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
Further information about cookies
If you’d like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit aboutcookies.org (opens in a new window – please note that we can’t be responsible for the content of external websites).
Our cookies don’t store sensitive information such as your name, address or payment details: they simply hold the ‘key’ that, once you’re signed in, is associated with this information. However, if you’d prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies from our website or any other website, you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different, so check the ‘help’ menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone’s handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
Below details the cookies that are being used on our website and what they do.
Cookie Name | What does this do? | Who sees this information? |
PREF, __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmv, __utmz,_ga,_gat,_gid | These cookies provide us with information about the numbers of visitors and how they reached us, they also recognise location when used with Google maps and allow the pages to be liked using Google+ | The data stored by these cookies can only be seen by our organisation and Google and neither organisation shares any confidential information. |
MCPopupClosed | This cookie is part of our Newsletter popup feature. | The data stored by these cookies can only be seen by our organisation |
loc, bt, dt, di, uid, uvc, psc, ssc, ssh, sshs, uit, __unam | To enable sharing of our content through other smaller social networking sites we utilise a service called AddThis Social Share from Add This LLC. These cookies are deployed by add this to enable the sharing of information through users social network accounts. | The data stored by these cookies can only be seen by our company and AddThis LLC and neither organisation shares any confidential information. |
_hjClosedSurveyInvites, _hjDonePolls, _hjMinimizedPolls, _hjDoneTestersWidgets, _hjMinimizedTestersWidgets, _hjIncludedInSample | These cookies allow us to understand how users interact with our website, identifying popular areas of the website, as well as areas that could be improved. | The data stored by these cookies can only be seen by our company and HotJar and neither organisation shares any confidential information. |
tcampaign_id | This is used to store and register pop ups that a user has already seen to improve user experience. | The data stored can only be seen by our company. |
user_searched_postcode | This is used to show relevant campaigns or similar based on the user’s last searched postcode. | The data stored can only be seen by our company. |
_hjDonePolls, _hjIncludedInSample, _hjMinimizedPolls | This is used to monitor and manage user feedback on the website using HotJar. | The data stored can only be seen by our company. |
user-id | To be able to unique identify a user for retargeting, conversion, or look-a-like purposes | Anonymous randomly generated user ID which can be seen by Buy Me Media |
user-id-v2 | To be able to unique identify a user for retargeting, conversion, or look-a-like purposes | Anonymous randomly generated user ID (version 2) which can be seen by Buy Me Media |
sa-camp-* | Tracks a campaign ID that a user has viewed or clicked | Campaign and Creative ID which can be seen by Buy Me Media |
sa_aid_pv | Stores auction ID of a recent ad click (if engagement tracking is enabled on the universal pixel) | Auction ID which can be seen by Buy Me Media |
