Cookie policy

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.

  • First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.
  • Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.

Every time you visit Realedo website, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.

The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time.

That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.

Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on our sites.

How do we use cookies?

Realedo website mostly use “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by Realedo, not by any external organisation.

However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations.

The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to:

  • Store visitor preferences
  • Make our websites operational
  • Gather analytics data (about user behaviour)

Visitor preferences cookies

These are set by us and only we can read them. They remember:

  • if you have agreed to (or refused) this site’s cookie policy
Name Service Purpose Cookie type and duration
.AspNet.Consent, acceptCookies Cookie consent kit Stores your cookie preferences (so you won’t be asked again) First-party persistent cookie, 1 month

Operational cookies

There are some cookies that we have to include in order for certain web pages to function. In particular:

  • Authentication cookies
  • Technical cookies required by certain IT systems

Authentication cookies

These are stored when you log in to Realedo site, using our authentication service (Login). When you do this, you accept the associated Privacy Policy.

Name Service Purpose Cookie type and duration
realdeo_auth Website Authentication Stores your session in order to remember you and your login First-party persistent cookie, 1 month

Technical cookies

Name Service Purpose Cookie type and duration
.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.* Website Security It provides protection against Cross-site request forgery (also known as XSRF or CSRF). First-party session cookie, deleted after you quit your browser
storage.searchOptions Website Search Pages It stores the last search parameters of your search in order to restore the status whenever you come back to the search page LocalStorage Key, persistent data
storage.mapCenterLatitude Website Search Pages It stores the latitude of the search map in order to restore the map position whenever you come back to the search page LocalStorage Key, persistent data
storage.mapCenterLongitude Website Search Pages It stores the longitude of the search map in order to restore the map position whenever you come back to the search page LocalStorage Key, persistent data
storage.mapShown Website Search Pages It stores the status (shown/hidden) of the search map in order to restore the map visibility whenever you come back to the search page LocalStorage Key, persistent data
storage.mapZoom Website Search Pages It stores the zoom of the search map in order to restore the map zoom whenever you come back to the search page LocalStorage Key, persistent data

Analytics cookies

The cookies simply assess how you interact with our website – as an anonymous user (the data gathered does not identify you personally).

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors access and use our site. This is used to monitor performance, for reporting, and for providing data that will influence the improvements made to the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of people visiting the site, their gender and age, how many pages they looked at, what pages they visited and how long they stayed.

Statistical cookies

Name Service Purpose Cookie type and duration
_ga Google Analytics Is set by Google Analytics and used to distinguish users. Third-party persistent cookie, 2 years
_gid Google Analytics Is set by Google Analytics and used to distinguish users. Third-party persistent cookie, 1 day
_gat_gtag_UA_72179447_1 Google Analytics Is set by Google Analytics and used to throttle request rate. Third-party persistent cookie, 1 minute
unpoco_101285613 Clicky Is set by Clicky and used to provide bandwidth estimations. Third-party persistent cookie, 1 day
_jsuid Clicky Is set by Clicky and used to store first visit to the site. Third-party persistent cookie, 1 min
cluid Clicky Is set by Clicky and contains the same information as the __jsuid cookie, it is used to share information with Clicky. Third-party persistent cookie, 1 min

How can you manage cookies?

You can manage/delete cookies as you wish - for details, see aboutcookies.org.

Removing cookies from your device

You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).

Managing site-specific cookies

For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser

Blocking cookies

You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).

Managing Google Analytics cookies

You can prevent the use of Google Analytics cookies by downloading Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You may download it at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

How do i block or delete the cookies in my browser?

The majority of web browsers allow you to disable completely the use of Cookies. They also allow you to delete cookies created by specific domains/websites. To find out how to do it, please refer to your browser's help page.

The information is also covered in web browser's online support pages:

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