Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer and record specific interactions between you and this website, and in some cases, other websites. This information is sometimes shared with the third parties. Below is more detail about the cookies we use, what they record and who the information is shared with. You are of course free to disable cookies.
Functionality lost by disabling cookies or not giving consent
If you disable cookies some functionality will not be available, namely:
- you will not be able to log in
- your custom settings for use with this and third-party plugins will be unavailable
- you may experience degraded website performance
- you won't be able to view Slideshare presentations.
Cookies set by us
When you visit our website, we may set the following cookies:
Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
has_js | has_js cookie stores information on whether your browser has javascript enabled. | When you close your browser |
Drupal.tableDrag.showWeight, | Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/), which is our content management system, uses Drupal.tableDrag.showWeight and Drupal.toolbar.collapsed cookies to store user interface preferences. | Drupal.tableDrag.showWeight: 1 year |
Session cookie, name composed of 37 characters (letters and digits) | This is an essential cookie, used to manage interactions with logged-in users. | When you close your browser |
gaia-cookie-agreed | This cookie is used to remember your choice about cookies on www.gaia.ac.uk. | 100 days |
Google Analytics
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data
Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
_ga | Used to distinguish users. This cookie helps us count how many people visit Gaia website by tracking if you’ve visited before. | 2 years |
_gid | Used to distinguish users. This cookie helps us count how many people visit Gaia website by tracking if you’ve visited before. | 24 hours |
_gat | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made. | 10 minutes |
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by visiting this page on Google.
YouTube
On some pages of this site, we use YouTube to display videos. We embed YouTube videos using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
YouTube sets some or all of these cookies when you visit one of these pages.
Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
use_hitbox | This is a randomly generated number that identifies your browser. | When you close your browser |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Set when viewing a page with Youtube videos on it. It is set by Youtube so they can count the views of embedded Youtube videos on them. | 9 months |
PREF | 20 years |
Vimeo
On some pages of this website, we embed videos hosted on Vimeo. Vimeo may set cookies on your computer once you click on the Vimeo video player. Read more at Vimeo's Privacy Policy and Vimeo's Cookie Policy pages.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
vuid | Video analytics. | When you close your browser |
| player | Video analytics. | 1 year |
Slideshare
On some pages of this website, we embed presentations from Slideshare. Read Slideshare's Privacy Policy and Slideshare's Cookie Policy.
Slideshare may set the following cookies:
Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
language |
| When you close your browser |
SERVERID |
| When you close your browser |
bcookie | LinkedIn button. | 2 years |
_uv_id | Associated with Slideshare presentation. | 2 years |
__utma | Google Analytics, used to track if you’ve visited before, so slideshare.net can count new visitors. | 2years |
__utmb | Google Analytics cookie 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. | 30 minutes |
__utmc | Google Analytics cookie. Works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser. | When you close your browser |
__utmt | Google Analytics. Used to throttle request rate. | 10 minutes |
__utmz | Google Analytics. Tells slideshare.net how you reached the presentation. | 6 months |
RT |
| When you close your browser |
We embed a stream of our latest tweets into some pages on our website. If you have a Twitter account, this may set cookies on your computer. Read more at Twitter’s privacy help page, Twitter's Our use of cookies and similar technologies page, Twitter Privacy Policy and Twitter Terms of Service.
Twitter may set some of the following cookies.
Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
_twitter_sess | When you close your browser | |
personalization_id | 2 years | |
guest_id | This cookie is used to identify the visitor to Twitter. If the visitor does not have a Twitter account or has never accessed the twitter.com website directly then Twitter will assign you a unique code to track your visit to the Twitter feed. | 2years |
external_referer |
| 7 days |
ct0 |
| 6 hours |
_ga | Google Analytics cookie. | 2 years |
_gid | Google Analytics cookie. | 24 hours |
_gat | Google Analytics cookie. | 10 minutes |
How to disable cookies
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
Last updated: 17 May 2018.