Cookies
Version 1: June 2018
sifocc.org puts cookies onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.
A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website that you visit. It helps the website to remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. That can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you. Cookies play an important role. Without them, using the web would be a much more frustrating experience.
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
sifocc.org cookies aren’t used to identify you personally.
Find out more about how to manage cookies here.
How cookies are used on sifocc.org
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use sifocc.org
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 on sifocc.org
- how long you spend on each sifocc.org page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
Google Analytics sets the following cookies
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
| _utma | Determines the number of unique visitors to the site | 2 years |
| _utmb | This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on our site | 30 minutes |
| _utmc | This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser | when you close your browser |
| _utmz | This provides information about how you reached the site (eg from another website or a search engine) | 6 months |
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies.
We don’t collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are. We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Analysing website design (Crazy Egg)
We use Crazy Egg, a web analytics service provided by Crazy Egg, Inc. It uses cookies that enable us to analyse your use of our website designs. The process collects and saves data that we use to improve the design and layout of our website. It is a user need focused form of research which includes the collation of heat maps as a way of viewing what works well on the page and what doesn’t work so well. It retrieves the data by tracking mouse clicks on the page.
The data generated by cookies about your use of our website (including your IP address) is transferred to a Crazy Egg server in the USA and stored there. The Judicial Office has an account with Crazy Egg in which they can log in and view information. Whilst Crazy Egg collects the IP address we do not collect any personal data about the user.
Crazy Egg may store data outside the EEA. It adheres to several self-regulatory frameworks and is certified under the EU-US Shield Framework.
Cookies placed by Crazy Egg do not include personally identifiable information such as name, phone number, e-mail address or mailing address, nor does Crazy Egg link cookies to such personally identifiable information in our servers or databases.
Crazy Egg sets the following cookies:
| Cookie Name(s) | Source | Duration | Purpose |
| Cookies set directly by app.crazyegg.com and www.crazyegg.com | |||
| _crazyegg_session | Crazy Egg | Session (auto-deletes you quit your browser) | Remembers information related to marketing page features. |
| ce_login | Crazy Egg | 1 year | Remember the last email address you used to login |
| ce_signup_flow | Crazy Egg | 1 year | Remember the signup flow you saw |
| ce2ab | Crazy Egg | 5 years | Store page variants assigned to visitors for A/B performance testing |
| ceac | Crazy Egg | 1 year | Account ID number |
| cean | Crazy Egg | 1 year | Anonymous ID number |
| cehc | Crazy Egg | Session (auto-deletes the browser is shut down) | Share user information with CrazyEgg’s Help Center |
| celi | Crazy Egg | Session (auto-deletes the browser is shut down) | Logged-in Status |
| cean_asoc | Crazy Egg | 1 year | Associates Anonymous ID with logged-in user |
| expire_time | Crazy Egg | 55 minutes | Expiration time for Signed URLs |
| first_snapshot_url | Crazy Egg | 1 year | Stores webiste URL used to create first Snapshot |
| gdpr_consent | Crazy Egg | 365 days | Remember if user gave consent |
| referrer-tracked | Crazy Egg | Session (auto-deletes the browser is shut down) | Flag to not track referrer more than once |
| sharing_[item_code] | Crazy Egg | 30 minutes | Shared item code |
| sid | Crazy Egg | Session (auto-deletes the browser is shut down) | Identify logged-in users |
| Cookies set directly by www.crazyegg.com/blog | |||
| hide_overlay | Crazy Egg | 1 year | Flag to stop showing overlay on blog |
| Cookies set directly by help.crazyegg.com | |||
| PLAY_SESSION | Help Scout | 1 year | Session cookie |
| Cookies set by the Crazy Egg tracking script | |||
| _ceir, is_returning | Crazy Egg | 5 years | Track whether a visitor has visited the site before |
| _CEFT | Crazy Egg | 1 year | Store page variants assigned to visitors for A/B performance testing |
| _ceg.s | Crazy Egg | 3 months | Track visitor sessions |
| _ceg.u | Crazy Egg | 3 months | Track visitors on your site |
| cer.s | Crazy Egg | Session (expires when the browser is shut down) | Visitor activity recording session unique ID, tracking host and start time |
| cer.v | Crazy Egg | Up to 31 days (expires on the first of the month) | Visitor activity recording unique ID, visit time and visit count |
| Cookies set by third-party services installed on this site | |||
| __ar_v4 | DoubleClick advertising service from Google | 5 years | Advertisement conversion rate tracking |
| intercom-lou-* and intercom-session-* | Intercom | 1 year | These cookies are used by our instance of Intercom. |
| __distillery | Wistia | 1 year | Video analytics |
| muxData | Wista | 20 years | Track user behavior in videos |
| __zlcmid, __zprivacy | Zopim | 1 year | Live technical support chat preferences and visitor session ID |
| _gid | Google Analytics | 24 hours | Uses to distinguish users. |
| _ga | Google Analytics | 2 years | Unique visitor ID |
| _gat | Google Analytics | 10 minutes | Request rate throttling |
| _gat_gtag_UA_[id] | Google Analytics | 24 hours | Track user behavior in videos |
| ki_r, ki_s, ki_t, ki_u | Qualaroo | 5 years | Customer surveys |
| km_ai, km_lv, km_ni, km_uq, km_vs, kvcd | KISSmetrics | 5 years | Provide information about how visitors use the site |
| optimizelyBuckets | Optimizely | 6 months | Store page variants assigned to visitors for A/B performance testing |
| optimizelyEndUserId | Optimizely | 6 months | Unique visitor identifier |
| optimizelyPendingLogEvents | Optimizely | 15 seconds | Record visitor activity |
| optimizelySegments | Optimizely | 6 months | Visitor audience segmentation information |
| driftt_eid | Drift | 2 years | End user identifier token |
| driftt_aid | Drift | 2 years | Anonymous identifier token |
| driftt_sid | Drift | Session (auto-deletes you quit your browser) | Identifier token for specific browser session |
| DFTT_LEAD_HAS_PREV_IDENTIFIED and DFTT_END_USER_PREV_BOOTSTRAPPED | Drift | 2 years | Provide chat support via Drift. |
| bounceClientVisit[id] | Bounce Exchange | Session (auto-deletes you quit your browser) | Marketing exit intent |
| fr | 90 days | Used for Facebook Ads | |
| fr | Session (auto-deletes you quit your browser) | Used for Facebook Ads | |
| uvc | Add This | 24 hours | Used to allow visitors to share pages from the blog on social media |
| __cfduid | Cloudflare | 1 year | Used to identify individual clients (anonymously) behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis |
| uc_session | Dropbox | Session (auto-deletes you quit your browser) | Session cookie |
| JSESSIONID | New Relic | Session (auto-deletes you quit your browser) | Session cookie (used to track web application performance) |
| NID | 6 months | Used by Google to store user preferences | |
You may opt-out of the collection and storage of your information by Crazy Egg at any time by following the instructions under the following link:
You can opt-out here.
For more information about the software used and Crazy Egg’s Privacy Policy, go here.