Cookie Policy
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of Country) and to prevent spam in forms.
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This information is used to make websites and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests and also to share information with third parties for this purpose. We do not use any targeting cookies on our website.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Website | Cookie | Cookie Name and Type | Default Expiration Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| www.vesuvius.com | Consent Cookie | CookieControl — Strictly necessary cookies | 90 days from set/update | This cookie is used to remember that consent has been given to set cookies. No personally identifiable information is held by this cookie. |
www.foseco.com www.supplier.vesuvius.com | Login cookie | PHPSESSID Strictly necessary cookies | Keeps PHP session; needed for handling of user login and keeping session | |
| www.foseco.com | Service cookies for website functions | fe_typo_user Strictly necessary cookies | Session-related parameters which are necessary for registered website user accounts. | |
www.vesuvius.com www.foseco.com www.supplier.vesuvius.com | Google Analytic s (GA) Cookies | _utma Analytical/performance cookies | 2 years from set/update | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing_utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated evey time data is sent to Google Analytics. Data held:
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www.vesuvius.com www.foseco.com www.supplier.vesuvius.com | Google Analytic s (GA) Cookies | _utmb Analytical/performance cookies | 30 mins from set/update | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing_utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Data held:
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www.vesuvius.com www.foseco.com www.supplier.vesuvius.com | Google Analytic s (GA) Cookies | _utmc Analytical/performance cookies | end of browser session | Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the _utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. Data held:
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www.vesuvius.com www.foseco.com www.supplier.vesuvius.com | Google Analytic s (GA) Cookies | _utmz Analytical/performance cookies | 6 months from set/update | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes ans is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Data held:
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www.foseco.com www.supplier.vesuvius.com | Google Analytic s (GA) Cookies | _ga | 2 years | Used to destinguish users. |
www.foseco.com www.supplier.vesuvius.com | Google Analytic s (GA) Cookies | _gat_vesuvius, _gat_foseco | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate. |
www.foseco.com www.supplier.vesuvius.com | Google Analytic s (GA) Cookies | opt_out | 1 year | Blocks the Google Analytics code from being embedded on the page. |
www.foseco.com | Google Analytic s (GA) Cookies | Analytical/performance cookies | External jquery.com and fonts.com services are required for the websites. These two services do set own GA cookies too. | |
www.foseco.com www.supplier.vesuvius.com | Service cookies | spamshield Functionality cookies | For preventing spam in forms (e.g. contact form, job application form) | |
| www.foseco.com | Local layer cookie | tx_itlocalelayer_country Functionality cookies | for 1 day | Storing country selection choice (when a user visits Foseco website he will be required to select his country). |
| www.foseco.com | Apache Server | NA | NA | Collecting IP addresses of visitors. |
| www.supplier.vesuvius.com | Service cookies for website functions | suppliertoken SessionID Strictly necessary cookies
| Session | Session-related parameters which are necessary for registered website user accounts. |
| report2018.vesuvius.com | Consent Cookie | cookie__consentStrictly necessary cookies | 14 days | The cookie is used to remember that consent has been given to set cookies. No data is held by this cookie. |
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies or choosing the ‘Opt Out’ Method provided. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire as noted in the table above under Default Expiration Time.