Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
In common with many other websites Doctorlink uses cookies, these are text files that are placed on your computer to collect information that is used to enhance the Doctorlink experience.
Cookies come in a variety of flavours depending on their purpose:
- Session cookies: allow users to be recognised within a website so any page changes or item or data selection you do is remembered from page to page. The most common example of this functionality is the shopping cart. These cookies expire when the browser is closed.
- Permanent or persistent cookies: help websites remember your information and settings when you visit them in the future. These remain in operation, even when you have closed the browser. They remember your login details and password so you don’t have to type them in every time you use the site.
- Third-party cookies: these are installed by third parties with the aim of collecting certain information to carry out research into browsing behaviour.
What does Doctorlink use cookies for?
We use cookies as described below:
Name:
_ga
Type:
Third Party (Google Analytics)
Purpose:
Used to distinguish users.
Name:
_gid
Type:
Third Party
Purpose:
Used to distinguish users.
Name:
_gat
Type:
Third Party (Googly Analytics)
Purpose:
Used to throttle request rate.
Name:
_fbp
Type:
Third Party (Facebook)
Purpose:
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
Name:
_hjFirstSeen
Type:
Third Party (Hotjar)
Purpose:
Set to identify a new user’s first session.
Name:
_hjid
Type:
Third Party (Hotjar)
Purpose:
Set when a user first lands on the website. It ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the site will be attributed to the same user ID.
Name:
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
Type:
Third Party (Hotjar)
Purpose:
To let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by the website’s daily session limit.
Name:
_hjIncludedInPagviewSample
Type:
Third Party (Hotjar)
Purpose:
Set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by the website’s pageview limit.
Name:
_hjIncludedInSessionSample
Type:
Third Party (Hotjar)
Purpose:
Set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by the website’s daily session limit.
Third Party Cookies
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit to help us improve future visits to our site.
The main cookie used by Google Analytics is the _ga cookie.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page and Analytics cookies and privacy information: Google Analytics Home – Analytics Help
Social media buttons and/or plugins are used on this site to allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work social media sites including; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, will set cookies through the site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Disabling Cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies (see your browser help function for how to do this). You can also delete cookies, instructions on how to do this can be found here: https://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to- delete-cookies/
Please note some of our website features may not work if you disable cookies, it is therefore recommended that you do not disable cookies.
More Information
If you need any further information on how we manage cookies please contact us at [email protected]
