Cookie policy
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. visibleingredients.com puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.
Cookies are used to:
- measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
- remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again
Cookies on visibleingredients.com aren’t used to identify you personally.
Find out more about how to manage cookies.
How cookies are used on visibleingredients.com
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use visibleingredients.com. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit
- how long you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Universal Analytics
Name: _ga
Purpose: This helps us count how many people visit visibleingredients.com by tracking if you’ve visited before
Expires: 2 years
Name: _gid
Purpose: This helps us count how many people visit visibleingredients.com by tracking if you’ve visited before
Expires: 24 hours (3 days for the ‘register’ service)
Name: _gat
Purpose: Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made. This cookie does not store any user information,
Expires: The expiry settings are set by Google
Name: acceptAllCookies
Purpose: Used to remember whether or not you clicked accept or don’t accept for optional cookies
Expires: 25 days
Name: connect.sid
Purpose: Used to persist registration data through the ‘register’ service
Expires: 24 hours
Google Analytics
Name: _utma
Purpose: Like _ga, this lets us know if you’ve visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to visibleingredients.com or to a certain page
Expires: 2 years
Name: _utmb
Purpose: This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on visibleingredients.com
Expires: 30 minutes
Name: _utmc
Purpose: This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser
Expires: when you close your browser
Name: _utmz
Purpose: This tells us how you reached visibleingredients.com (for example from another website or a search engine)
Expires: 6 months
SiteImprove
Name: nmstat
Purpose: statistics about site usage such as when you last visited the site
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 1000 days after last visit
Name: siteimproveses
Purpose: Used to track the sequence of pages you look at during a visit to the site.
Expires: when user exits browser
Name: szcookiechoice
Purpose: Used to determine if you have accepted or declined cookies.
Expires: when user exits browser
Cloudflare
Name: __cfduid
Purpose: Set by the CloudFlare to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.
Expires: 5 years
Surveymonkey
Sometimes we conduct online surveys to help us better meet our customers’ needs. We use SurveyMonkey to collect responses to the survey. If you take part, SurveyMonkey will save extra cookies to your computer to track your progress through it.
Name: mbox, SSOE, TS5159a2 and TSd0b041, ep201, ep202, utma, utmc and utmz
Purpose: Online surveys on visibleingredients.com.
Logging in to our services
Once you have logged on with username and password, so you don’t have to do it for every webpage you request from our service.
Name: AUTH_TOKEN
Expires: when user exits browser
Third party cookies
YouTube cookies
We use YouTube to provide videos on some pages of the site. YouTube sets cookies when you visit one of these pages.
Name: use_hitbox
Purpose: randomly generated number that identifies your browser
Expires: when you close your browser
Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Purpose: Lets Youtube count the views of embedded Youtube videos
Expires: 9 months
Facebook cookies
Name: datr
Expires: 2 years
Name: lsd
Expires: when user exits browser
Name: reg_ext_ref
Expires: when user exits browser
Name: reg_fb_gate
Expires: when user exits browser
Name: reg_fb_ref
Expires: when user exits browser
Name: wd
Expires: when user exits browser
Name: x-referer
Expires: when user exits browser
Twitter cookies
Twitter may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to improve their service including understanding user interaction, monitor aggregate usage and web traffic routing.
Name: k
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 1 week
Name: guest_id
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 1 month
Name: original_referer
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser
Name: external_referer
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 24 hrs
Name: _twitter_sess
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser
Name: js
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 1 month