This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, Mobile Testing Solutions Ltd (MTS), use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our websites, www.mobiletesting.uk.com and www.mts-school.com (our websites).
'Essential' cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. 'Non-essential' cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies. For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and related technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.
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About Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files sent by a website's server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user's website experience, and storing that user's preferences and login information.
Essential and Non-essential Cookies
Cookies can be classified as either 'essential' or 'non-essential'.
- Essential Cookies: Used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.
- Non-essential Cookies: Any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website ('analytical' cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you ('marketing' cookies).
Session vs Persistent
Session cookies: last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies: expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
First vs Third Party
First party cookies: cookies placed on your device by our website domain.
Third party cookies: cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.
If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
List of Cookies Used
The following cookies are used on or in relation to MTS websites:
| Name | Class | Type & Party | Expiry | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAKEPHP | Essential | Functional First Party · Session | End of browser session | Used to track sessions for the sales basket. |
| csrfToken | Essential | Functional First Party · Session | End of browser session | Prevents form tampering; general site security. |
| _utma | Non-essential | Analytical Third Party (Google) · Persistent | 2 years from set/update | Used to distinguish users and sessions. Updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| _utmb | Non-essential | Analytical Third Party (Google) · Persistent | 30 minutes from set/update | Used to determine new sessions/visits. Updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| _utmc | Non-essential | Analytical Third Party (Google) · Session | End of browser session | Set for interoperability with urchin.js (legacy Google Analytics). |
| _utmz | Non-essential | Analytical Third Party (Google) · Persistent | 6 months from set/update | Stores the traffic source or campaign explaining how the user reached the site. |
| _ga | Non-essential | Analytical Third Party (Google) · Persistent | 2 years | Used to distinguish users. |
| _gid | Non-essential | Analytical Third Party (Google) · Persistent | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. |
| _fbp | Non-essential | Marketing Third Party (Facebook) · Persistent | End of session or after 2 hours of inactivity | Pixel cookie storing traffic source or campaign showing how the user reached our site. |
Essential Cookies
These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested. We use the following essential cookies on our website:
- A first party session cookie to remember your input when you fill in an online form over several pages on our website. This cookie is: csrfToken
- A first party session cookie for remembering the items you have placed in your shopping cart. This cookie is: CAKEPHP
Legal processing details:
Legal basis for processing: We process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: Ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.
How to opt out of essential cookies
Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, including essential cookies. Please note, however, that if you block all cookies, parts of our website and its functionality may not work or display properly. You can delete existing cookies from your browser by clearing your browsing data and ensuring that the option to delete cookies is selected.
Non-essential Cookies
We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website: Functional Cookies, Analytical (or performance) Cookies, and Marketing Cookies.
1. Functional Cookies
These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website's functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose.
Legal basis for processing: We process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR). We will only process such personal information if you have consented to us placing cookies on your computer or device.
2. Analytical/Performance Cookies
Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. These cookies are not essential for our websites or their functionality to work. We use Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how you engage and interact with our website. The information we collect using analytical cookies is collected on an anonymised basis.
To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics' privacy policy. For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
3. Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies record information about your visit to and use of our website, for marketing or advertising purposes. We only use third party marketing cookies on our websites. Third party marketing cookies from Google and Facebook (_fbp) are placed to show the traffic source or campaign explaining how the user reached our site.
Facebook Pixel Cookie
We use Facebook Pixel on our websites. Facebook Pixel is a tracking code which allows us to track and monitor the success of advertisements we use on Facebook and to improve the effectiveness of those advertisements by recording information such as the device you used to access our websites and the actions you took on our websites using cookies. We also use Facebook Pixel to create retargeting advertisements and custom audiences for our advertisements on Facebook.
Facebook aggregates data gathered from our use of Facebook Pixel on our websites with data it gathers from other sources. You can find out more about how Facebook handles information they collect about you and other individuals by accessing their Facebook Privacy Policy.
How to Accept or Reject
There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and similar technologies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below:
1. Cookie control tool
You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool, provided by CIVIC. Look for the "C" logo in the bottom left of our websites, which you can click for further options.
2. Browser Settings
You can also accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. Links for popular browsers:
3. Google Analytics & Personalization Opt-out
You can manage and opt out of personalization of advertisements by Google by visiting Google Ad Settings. You can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Copyright, credit and logo
This Cookies Policy is based on a template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information, please visit gdprprivacypolicy.org.
The copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved.