PRIVACY/ COOKIE POLICY
PRIVACY/ COOKIE POLICY
PRIVACY OVERVIEW
We use cookies to improve your user experience – especially in the future. The cookies set by this website are related mainly to collection and analysis of visitior statistics, and insight into social media sharing.
PURPOSE AND GENERAL INFORMATION
Magee Scientific/Aerosol does not use cookies as a tool to track or map patterns of individual users, or in any way that would be harmful to or infringe on a user’s privacy.
Note: The overview below does is not necessarily exhaustive for all of this website’s pages. Some of our pages integrate content from other websites or services (typically YouTube, Vimeo, and/or Google Maps or other map services), which may set their own cookies.
STATISTICS AND ANALYSES
Improving our website is a continuous effort, and knowledge about how our pages actually perform in real life is essential to the process. In order to gain insight into that, we use a tool for collecting and analyzing statistics (Google Analytics).
Related cookies and information are set and handled by Google. For further info, please see the Google Privacy Policy.
SOCIAL MEDIA SHARING ETC.
We want sharing our content to be easy, and use a third-party solution designed specifically for that purpose (ShareThis).
Related cookies and information are set and handled by ShareThis. For further info, please see the ShareThis Privacy Policy and terms of use. Briefly summarized, it says that no information is used to identify you personally, unless you purposely do something to identify yourself. (For example, if you use ShareThis to share a page via email and state your own email address in the process.)
OVERVIEW OF COOKIES
| Name | Purpose | Expiration time | Related to |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 2 years | google-analytics |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | Session | google-analytics |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | Session | google-analytics |
| __stid | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user's device for return visits | 1 year | shareThis |
| __unam | Saves the user's navigation on the web site including what pages have been viewed and how long the browser has been used to view each page | 9 months | shareThis |
| collect | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Session | google-analytics |
| impression | Used by Facebook to register impressions on pages with the Facebook log in button | Session | |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos | 179 days | Youtube |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen | Session | Youtube |
| PH_HPXY_CHECK | Web server | Session | mageesci.com |
DISABLING COOKIES
Cookies can be disabled in browser. See instructions bellow:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer 9
Internet Explorer 7, 8
Safari
Opera