Cookie Policy

Our website uses 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. This helps us to recognise you when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site.

We currently use the following cookies on our Vetspanel website:

Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to make the website work properly for you and enable access to secure areas we provide.

Functional cookies: These cookies enable you to move around our website, accessing secure areas and remember your user name, choice of language and region you are in.

Analytical/statistics cookies and Third parties Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. Please note that we make use of cookies that are placed by third party services such as maps, online videos or social media features to enhance the information we present online.

Some cookies are only kept on your computer until you leave our website while other cookies remain in your browser after the session unless they expire or are deleted.

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Cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them:

 

Cookie Name	Purpose	Expiry
PHPSESSID	Necessary: preserves user session	Session
_icl_visitor_lang_js	Functional: keeps language choice	Session
wpml_browser_redirect_test	Functional: keeps language choice	session
_ga	visitors statistical data	730 days
_gat	Google analytics	Session
_gid	Visitors statistical data	Session
collect	Google analytics	Session
impression.php/#	facebook.com	Session

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How do I change my cookie settings?

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. You can find more information about cookies at: http://www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu

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Ensuring data integrity

We also use cookies, log files and digital fingerprint as part of our surveys that you may agree to participate in from time to time

We gather certain information automatically called data fingerprint and/or log files. This information may include for example, your IP address, the display settings of your monitor, internet service provider (ISP), the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, referring/exit pages, date/time, etc.

The data collected in this process and the digital fingerprint created are quality control purposes not tied to any of your personal information, is stored on secured servers, and is only used for survey  functionality, quality control purposes and to help prevent Panellists from completing the same survey many times, and for no other purpose. We may combine this automatically collected log information with other information we collect about you to ensure sample quality and the integrity of survey results and to improve statistical aggregated data.

In some cases, may assign a unique identifier to a user’s computer that can be referenced every time it seeks to take a survey. The unique identifier assists in quality control and to ensure our clients of the reliability of survey results.  We may use the unique identifier to analyse publicly available information and data obtained from your computer technical settings and IP Address.  We may share your unique identifier with our clients and with other sample providers and receive unique identifiers linked to you from a third party, including without limitation a sample provider or our clients.

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Social Media Widgets/plug-ins

Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button. These features may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are both hosted by a third party. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.