Privacy and Cookie Policy | Gear4music plc
Privacy and Cookie Policy
The pages on the website ("the website") are published by Emperor Design Consultants Limited ("us" or "we") on behalf of Gear4music (Holdings) plc ("Gear4music").
We will not collect any information about individuals, except where it is specifically and knowingly provided by them.
When you visit our website, our web server collects some basic information such as your internet service provider's domain name, which pages you accessed on our site, and when.
We use this information only to analyse the use of our website to help guide improvements. We do not collect any personally identifiable information.
Cookies
When you visit our website, we use cookies, which are small pieces of information that allow us to maintain your connection to our website. This website may use cookies for detecting what kind of device you have in order to present content in the best way, for a language switch and/or for other purposes. These cookies do not collect or store any personally identifiable information. You can refuse the use of cookies.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies (text files placed on your computer) to help the website operators analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Sharing tools
This website uses sharing tools. Sharing tools allow you to share content through social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. When you use one of these buttons, the social networking site may place a cookie on your computer. This would be a third-party cookie set by the social networking site. If you have any questions about the use of these third-party cookies, you should check the relevant social networking site's cookie policy.
How to refuse the use of cookies
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, if you do this you may lose some useful functionality such as personalisation and "keep me signed in" and "remember me" features.
Cloudflare
Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
|---|---|---|---|
__cfduid | The __cfduid cookie is set by the Cloudflare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information. | 5 years | No |
__cfruid | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Session | No |
__cf_bm | Cloudflare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. This cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. | 30 minutes | No |
cf_chl_2 | Used by Cloudflare for the execution of JavaScript or CAPTCHA challenges. These cookies are not used for tracking or beyond the scope of the challenge. | Session | No |
__cflb | When session affinity is enabled with Cloudflare Load Balancer, Cloudflare sets a __cflb cookie with a unique value on the first response to the requesting client. Cloudflare routes future requests to the same origin, optimizing network resource usage. In the event of a failover, Cloudflare sets a new __cflb cookie to direct future requests to the failover pool. | 30 minutes | Yes |
_cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. | Session | No |
cf_clearance | Whether a CAPTCHA or JavaScript challenge has been solved. | 1 year | No |
Vimeo
Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
|---|---|---|---|
vuid | This first-party cookie created by Vimeo is used to assign a Vimeo Analytics unique ID. | 1 year | No |
Player | This first-party cookie created by Vimeo is used to remember a user's player mode preferences. | 1 minute | Yes |
continuous_play_v3 | Used to keep track of whether continuous play is enabled for a user. | 2 years | Yes |
CookieControl
Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
|---|---|---|---|
CookieControl | Stores user consent preferences for your website. | 3 months | No |
CookieControlTC | Stores IAB TCF consent preferences. | 3 months | Unknown |
Google Analytics
Cookie Name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | ID used to identify users. | 1 year | Unknown |
_ga_* | Used to identify and track an individual user session. | 2 years | No |
_gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours. | 24 hours | No |
_gat | Used to monitor the number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager. | 58 seconds | No |
_dc_gtm_ | Used to monitor the number of Google Analytics server requests. | 1 minute | No |
AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token code that is used to read a Client ID from the AMP Client ID Service. By matching this ID with that of Google Analytics, users can be matched when switching between AMP and non-AMP content. | 1 year | No |
_gat_* | Used to set and get tracking data. | 1 hour | No |
_gac_ | Contains information related to the user's marketing campaigns. These are shared with Google Ads when Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together. | 90 days | No |
__utma | ID used to identify users and sessions. | 2 years | No |
__utmt | Used to monitor the number of Google Analytics server requests. | 10 minutes | No |
__utmb | Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js JavaScript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 30 minutes | No |
__utmc | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. It was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. | Session | No |
__utmz | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed a user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js JavaScript library is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 6 months | No |
__utmv | Contains custom information set by the web developer through the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated each time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 2 years | Unknown |
__utmx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A/B or multivariate test. | 18 months | No |
__utmxx | Used to determine when the A/B or multivariate test in which the user participates ends. | 18 months | No |
FPAU | Assigns a specific ID to the visitor. This allows the website to determine the number of specific user visits for analysis and statistics. | Session | No |
FPID | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | 1 year | No |
FPLC | This FPLC cookie is the cross-domain linker cookie hashed from the FPID cookie. It is not HttpOnly, which means it can be read with JavaScript. It has a relatively short lifetime of 20 hours. | 20 hours | No |