What are Cookies?
Cookies are tiny text files that are placed on your computer, mobile phone, or other device, and help provide you with the best experience we can. They are used by most websites to help personalise your web experience. Some features will not function if you do not allow cookies.
Our cookies help us:
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can remove them, however, doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
For more information about cookies, please see allaboutcookies.org.
Which cookies do we use and why?
1. Strictly necessary
Strictly necessary cookies are essential in helping you to move around our websites and use their features, such as accessing secure areas of the website and shopping. These cookies don’t gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.
We use these Strictly Necessary cookies to:
Using our site indicates that you accept the use of ’Strictly Necessary’ cookies.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.
Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as ’Strictly Necessary’
Host | Cookie name | Purpose |
www.smartcitiesworld.net | JSESSIONID | To keep track of user sessions on the site and identify your user session. |
CFIDE | ||
CFTOKEN | ||
www.smartcitiesworld.net | AFFINO_x | If we are hosting your sites this option is ticked. Each user profile has a number replacing x |
AFFINOLIVE_x |
2. Functional
These cookies allow websites and applications to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They do not gather any information about you that could be used for selling advertising or remembering where you’ve been on the internet, but do help with serving advertising.
Some examples of how we do this include:
Using our site indicates that you accept the use of ’Functional’ cookies.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.
Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as ’Functional’.
Host | Cookie name | Purpose |
www.smartcitiesworld.net | RVP | As a guest user we store the last 10 products you viewed |
accounts_tab_active | Store the state of the Affino accounts tab (open or closed) | |
contacts_tab_active | Store the state of the Affino contacts tab (open or closed) | |
Affino_Control | Stores the layout of the Affino control panel (left or right) | |
Affino_BrowserMode | Set your browser to iPad and you’ll be able to see what that user sees | |
LiveEditSwitch | Affino functionality remembers your settings if live edit switch is on/off | |
Affino_ControlWideScreen | Affino functionality remembers your settings if you selected this option | |
NewID | Cross domain check | |
Affino_CartID | Holds the users shopping cart ID | |
Affino_CookiePolicy | Stores the Cookie Policy status |
3. Performance (analytical)
’Performance’ cookies collect information about how you use our website e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify you - all the information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve how our website works.
Some examples of how we do this include:
Using our site indicates that you accept the use of ’Performance’ cookies.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.
Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as ’Performance’.
Host | Cookie name | Purpose |
smartcitiesworld.net | km_ai | Is used on affino.com but is not in standard Affino. If your site uses Kissmetrics you’ll need to include these. |
km_lv | ||
km_ni | ||
km_uq | ||
km_vs | ||
kvcd | ||
smartcitiesworld.net | __utma | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site (including Google Maps). We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Google Privacy policy |
__utmb | ||
__utmc | ||
__utmv | ||
__utmx | ||
__utmz | ||
google.co.uk | NID | |
PREF | ||
SNID | ||
www.smartcitiesworld.net | PRECACHE | Serve a cached version of the website to users to improve the performance of the site |
PRECACHECHECK |
4. Target or Advertising (3rd party)
’Targeting’ cookies are linked to services provided by third parties, such as ’Like’ buttons and ’Share’ buttons. The third party provides these services in return for recognising that you have visited our website.
An example of this includes:
You can control whether or not these cookies are used, but preventing them may stop us from offering you some services. All of these cookies are managed by third parties, and you may alternatively use the third parties’ own tools to prevent these cookies.
Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as ’Targeting’.
Host | Cookie name | Purpose |
facebook.com | __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmv, __utmz | These are used for facebook integration. Some Affino sites use single sign on (SSO). This service provides users with the option to sign in using their Facebook login. If they chose to do so Facebook cookies are set. Further information on Facebook’s Data Use policy is available at www.facebook.com/about/privacy |
player.vimeo.com | c_user, datr, act, locale, lu, p, presence, s, xs | When users view a web page on your site with an embedded Vimeo video, Vimeo creates these cookies |
av.vimeo.com | aka_debug | |
www.linkedin.com | X-LI-IDC | These are used for LinkedIn integration. Some Affino sites use single sign on (SSO). This service provides users with the option sign in using their LinkedIn login. If they chose to do so LinkedIn cookies are set. |
cdn.lmodules.com | ||
__utmz | ||
X-LI-IDC | ||
JSESSIONID | ||
leo_auth_token | ||
NSC_MC_QH_MFP | ||
NSC_MC_WT_DTQ_IUUQ | ||
PersistenceCookie | ||
visit | ||
X-LI-IDC | ||
linkedin.com | __qca, __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmv, __utmz, _lipt, bcookie, lang, lw | |
doubleclick.net | id | This is a Google tracking cookie for advertising purposes |
soundcloud.com | __utma | Soundcloud can be used to share music and audio files. They use google analytics to capture visitor information |
__utmb | ||
__utmc | ||
__utmz | ||
youtube.com | PREF | When you view a web page on your site with an embedded YouTube video, YouTube creates these cookies |
use_hitbox | ||
PRVISITOR_INFO1_LIVEEF | ||
imrworldwide.com | IMRID | These are cookies from an internet media and market research company Red Sheriff |
V5 | ||
quantserve.com | mc | This is an advertising cookie from Qantcast |
scorecardresearch.com | UID | These are market research cookies |
UIDR |