Cookie Policy

What are cookies

A cookie is a small text file that websites send to a visitor's computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices, to uniquely identify the visitor's browser. Cookies are used to collect, store, and share data stored by your browser and about your activities across websites.

Why do we use them

Primarily, we use cookies to make sure that the essential features on our websites will work properly. We also use additional cookies to track user behaviour on the websites, to provide insights into how we can improve both the website and also your experience as a user.

What categories of cookies do we have

The cookies we use are under the following categories:

Strictly Necessary cookies help make the VETTING.com website usable by enabling functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Preference cookies enables the web site to remember information to customize how the web site looks or behaves for each user. This may include storing selected currency, region, language, or colour theme.
Analytics cookies help VETTING.com to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

List of cookies

Cookie Name	What it's for	Category
M	Used by Stripe Payment Services for fraud prevention and detection.	Strictly Necessary
Ai_session	Preserves users states across page requests.	Strictly Necessary
cookiehub	Used by CookieHub to store information about whether visitors have given or declined the use of cookie categories used on the site.	Strictly Necessary
__stripe_mid	Stripe is used for making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers.	Preferences
__stripe_sid	Stripe is used for making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers.	Preferences
ai_user	Used by Microsoft Application Insights software to collect statistical usage and telemetry information. The cookie stores a unique identifier to recognize users on returning visits over time.	Analytics
_ga	Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.	Analytics
_gid	Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions.	Analytics
_gat_*	Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate (limit the collection of data on high traffic sites)	Analytics

This list can also be viewed on the Cookie Declaration tab when accessing the cookie settings on VETTING.com and may be subject to change.

How to change your preferences

If you do not want cookies to be set, you can opt-out by changing your browser settings to decline them. If you choose to decline cookies you may not be able to access and view all or parts of the VETTING.com website and software applications. This is the only method to turn off Strictly Necessary cookies but in doing so, you may not be able to use the site.

You can also amend your cookie preferences by clicking the manage settings button when logged into any of the websites.

More information

If you need more information about cookies you can visit any of the resources below where you will find a more detailed explanation of what cookies are and how to delete them.

https://cookiepedia.co.uk/all-about-cookies

https://aboutcookies.org/