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What do cookies do?
Cookies have lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website doesn’t use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site, for example, even after you “log in,” if you move to another page it won’t recognise you and it won’t be able to keep you logged in.
How does XCD use cookies?
XCD uses different types of cookies to enhance and improve your experience. XCD uses cookies for:
Security
We use cookies to enable and support our security features, for example: to authenticate Members, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect Member data from unauthorised parties.
Preferences
When you are signed in to your account, cookies help us display the correct information and personalise your experience, by providing you with features, insights, and customised content. They can also help you fill out forms more easily.
Loss of the information stored in a preference cookie may make the Site experience less functional, but should not prevent it from working.
Session State
We collect information about how our Users and Members use and interact with the Site. This may include the pages Members visit most often and when and where Members get error messages. We use these “session state cookies” to help us improve our Site and Services.
Blocking or deleting these cookies will not prevent the Site from working.
Analytics
These cookies help us learn how our Site performs in different locations. We use cookies to understand and improve our Services and features.
What third-party cookies does XCD use?
Trusted partners like Pardot, Hotjar, and analytics companies like Google Analytics may also place cookies on your device. Please read our partners’ privacy policies (linked below) to ensure that you’re comfortable with how they use cookies. We’ve also provided links to opt out of their services, if you’d like.
Hotjar
Google Analytics
Google Analytics Opt-Out
What should you do if you don’t want cookies to be set?
Some people find the idea of a website storing information on their computer or mobile device to be intrusive, particularly when this information is stored and used by a third party without them knowing. Although cookies are generally quite harmless, you may not, for example, want to see advertising that has been targeted to your interests using your browser history. If you prefer, you may choose to block some or all cookies, or even to delete cookies that have already been set; but you should be aware that you might lose some functions of the website.
If you want to restrict or block the cookies that are set by our Site, or any other site, you can do so through your browser setting. The ‘Help’ function in your browser should explain how. Alternatively, you can visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will find general information about cookies and details on how to delete cookies from your machine. To opt-out of third-parties collecting any data regarding your interaction on our Site, please refer to their websites for further information.
