Cookies

Like many other web sites we use Cookies on our site. Cookies can help a website to personalise your visit. A Cookie is text-only information that a website transfers to the Cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can, among other things, remember who you are. A Cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the Cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the Cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Two types of electronic access, storage and/or tracing devices are used on this website:

Session Cookies

Which are temporary Cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. This information is not stored after you have left the site.

Persistent cookies

Which remain in the Cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie but this may be indefinitely or until deleted).

Controlling and deleting cookies

Brand Vista will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by the Brand Vista website, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings.

You may wish to visit About Cookies which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. Please be aware that restricting cookies may cause a website to work incorrectly.

If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

List of the Brand Vista website cookies

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Used to store the number of times you have visited our website. This cookie expires after a year. The cookie holds absolutely no sensitive or personal information about you or your computer.

aspsessionid
Generated by the web server. ASP sends a different ASPSessionID cookie for each and every .asp file that is requested until Session state is triggered. Session state is triggered once something is stored in a Session variable (a scalar variable or an object instance), or the Session_OnStart event is fired in the application's Global.asa file, the SessionID is fixed for that user until the Session times out or is abandoned. The cookie holds absolutely no sensitive or personal information about you or your computer.

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Used by Google Analytics. See below for information about third party cookies.

Third party cookies

Google Analytics
The Brand Vista website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of the Brand Vista.

This analytical tool uses cookies to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors' use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Brand Vista.

Brand Vista will not (and will not allow any third party) to use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither Brand Vista nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.

By using the Brand Vista, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

For more information on the cookie set by Google Analytics please go see Google's privacy policy. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites please go to Google's opt out page.

Changes to this cookies notice

We keep our cookies notice under regular review and we will place any updates on this webpage.