What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files containing alphanumeric identifiers commonly transferred to and stored on your device when you browse and use websites and online services. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information and assist with service or advertising personalization.
Why does BiP use cookies?
We use cookies for various reasons. For example, we use cookies to enable our systems to recognise your browser and to provide
personalised information. We also use cookies to make it easy to access our services by remembering you when you return, to provide and analyse our services, to learn more about our users and how they use the service, and to deliver and tailor marketing or advertising. We want you to be informed about our use of these technologies, so this notice explains the types of technologies we use, what they do and your choices regarding their use.
What cookies do we use?
We may use the following types of cookies:
Essential cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide our website or online service. For example, we or our Service Providers may use these cookies to authenticate and identify our members when they use our websites and applications so we can provide our service to them. They also help us to enforce our Terms of Use, prevent fraud and maintain the security of our service.
Our website sets a cookie that stores a unique identifier for your session:
Name: <service>_signon or JSESSIONID
Typical content: randomly generated alpha-numeric value
Expires: After 4 hours of user inactivity or upon closing the browser
Our website sets a cookie that stores your username if you set remember me to true to keep you signed in to your computer:
Name: username
Typical content: username of user who has signed on
Expires: 1 month after sign in
Our website sets a cookie that stores an encrtyped security string if you set remember me to true to keep you signed in to your computer securely:
Name: ACEGI_SECURITY_HASHED_REMEMBER_ME_COOKIE
Typical content: encrypted security ID string
Expires: Immediately
Cookies for improving services: These cookies are not essential, but help us to personalize and enhance your user experience. For example, they help us to remember your preferences and prevent you from needing to re-enter information you previously provided (for example, during member sign up). We also use these cookies to collect information (such as popular pages, site usage patterns, click-through and other information) about our visitors’ use of the service so that we can enhance and personalize the service. Deletion of these types of cookies may result in limited functionality of our service.
Our website uses Google Analytics cookies to help us accurately trend user activity and page requests. This ensures that the service offers the most user-friendly journey through the application:
Name: __utma
Typical content: alpha-numeric value
Expires: when user exits the browser
Name: __utmb
Typical content: alpha-numeric value
Expires: when user exits the browser
Name: __utmc
Typical content: alpha-numeric value
Expires: when user exits the browser
Name: __utmd
Typical content: alpha-numeric value
Expires: when user exits the browser
How can I exercise choice regarding cookies and other types of online tracking?
The help menu on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons. However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of our website features, we recommend that you leave them turned on. If you do leave cookies turned on, be sure to sign off any logged-in service when you finish using a shared computer.
Does BiP use other technologies?
We sometimes use other technologies similar to cookies, such as browser storage and plugins (e.g. HTML5 and WebSQL). Like cookies, some of these technologies may store small amounts of data on your device. We may use these and various other technologies for similar purposes as cookies, such as to enforce our terms, prevent fraud, and analyse the use of our service. There are a number of ways to exercise choice regarding these technologies. For example, many popular browsers provide the ability to clear browser storage, commonly in the settings or preferences area – see your browser’s help function or support area to learn more.
