Use of Information
This website uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
Where information is provided voluntarily for the specific purpose, we use the information to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We may send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing.
CCT never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
The CCT website tracks information. We track how well each page performs overall. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. This website creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don’t track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
This website uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience’s demographics.
We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
Security
This website operates secure data networks protected by industry-standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.
CCT’s privacy policy can be viewed in Section 10 of the CCT Quality Assurance Manual here.
Cookies
The CCT website, like most websites, uses cookies. A cookie is a file that is stored on a web user’s device by a website server, which is only readable by that webserver. A cookie contains anonymous information, including identifier details and the site name.
Cookies are intended to help improve the user experience. Cookies store a user’s preferences, allowing a website to remember the user for the duration of the visit to the website or future visits.
There are different types of Cookies, and blocking some may negatively impact on the website user’s experience.
Please be aware that restricting cookies from this website may impact the functionality of a website. Many of the interactive functions offered by a website are dependent on cookies and disabling or blocking cookies can prevent these services from working or result in an inferior web experience.
- Session cookies are used to improve the user experience during the visit to the website. These cookies expire when the web browser is closed, and the web server retains no information.
- Persistent cookies collect data about a user’s actions and preferences and use this information to inform future actions.
- First-party cookies are applied directly by the website owner and are not accessible by any other website.
- Third-party cookies are cookies from a different website that have been permitted for use on this website. These cookies allow the third-party website to record user actions on this website.
What types of cookies do we use?
The below list details the cookies used on our website.
| Cookie | Description |
|---|---|
| Necessary | |
| __storejs__ | Javascript local storage cookie: stores values in local storage. |
| AWSALB | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimise the user experience. |
| AWSALBCORS | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimise the user experience. |
| JSESSIONID | Used by sites written in JSP. General purpose platform session cookies that are used to maintain users' state across page requests. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non Necessary". |
| Uncategorised | |
| 58966.vst | Processing |
| 3msSiteTimer | Processing |
| i | Processing |
| B | Processing |
| A3 | Processing |
| audience | Processing |
| csync | Processing |
| amplitude_id_production_1d890e80ea7a0ccc43c2b06438458f50bepress.com | Processing |
| c | Processing |
| st_cs | Processing |
| st_csd | Processing |
| Analytics | |
| pardot | The cookie is set when the visitor is logged in as a Pardot user. |
| GPS | This cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location |
| mp_76db2e2bde9dc0445f42c2b3d88526c8_mixpanel | Set by MixPanel for analytics |
| APID | This cookie is used to store information of how a user behaves on multiple websites. This information is them used to customize the relevant ads to be displayed to the users. |
| umeh | This anonymous information is used to determine the value of and to settle with an advertising partner. |
| demdex | This cookie is set under the domain demdex.net and is used by Adobe Audience Manager to help identify a unique visitor across domains. |
| _ga | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_45801625_1 | Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. |
| pubble_site_time | Tracks how long the user has been on the site. |
| Advertising & Marketing | |
| YTC | Set by Youtube to manage the embed and viewing of videos on our website. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. |
| khaos | This cookie is set by rubiconproject.com. The cookie is used to store user data in an anonymous form such as the IP address, geographical location, websites visited, and the ads clicked. The purpose of the cookie is to tailor the ads displayed to the users based on the users movement on other site in the same ad network. |
| ljt_reader | This is a Lijit Advertising Platform cookie. The cookie is used for recognizing the browser or device when users return to their site or one of their partner's site. |
| APIDTS | Collects data on visitors' preferences and behaviour on the website - This information is used to make content and advertisement more relevant to the specific visitor. |
| AMCV_4D6368F454EC41940A4C98A6%40AdobeOrg | Associated with Adobe Marketing Cloud. It stores a unique visitor identifier and uses an organisation identifier to allow a company to track users across their domains and services. |
| dpm | The cookie is set by demdex.net. This cookie assigns a unique ID to each visiting user that allows third-party advertisers target that users with relevant ads. |
| everest_session_v2 | This cookie is used to display personalized and relevant ads to the users and measure the efficiency of the ad campaign. |
| everest_g_v2 | The cookie is set under eversttech.net domain. The purpose of the cookie is to map clicks to other events on the client's website. |
| AMCVS_4D6368F454EC41940A4C98A6%40AdobeOrg | Adobe Cloud Marketing platform cookie |
| rum | AdRoll is an Irish based retargeting network that allows us to show ads to visitors who’ve landed on our site while browsing the web. You can opt-out of AdRoll by clicking here. |
| tuuid_lu | This cookie is set by .bidswitch.net. The cookies stores a unique ID for the purpose of the determining what adverts the users have seen if you have visited any of the advertisers website. The information is used for determining when and how often users will see a certain banner. |
| tuuid | This cookie is set by .bidswitch.net. The cookies stores a unique ID for the purpose of the determining what adverts the users have seen if you have visited any of the advertisers website. The information is used for determining when and how often users will see a certain banner. |
| IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. |
| TestIfCookieP | This cookie is used for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts. |
| IDSYNC | This cookie carries out information about how the end-user uses the website and any advertising that the end-user may have seen before visiting the said website. |
| DigiTrust.v1.identity | For advertising and targetting purposes. |
| 38FB6B45-2F00-4AE3-8BF9-E291EDFE3AAE | Processing |
| _fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website. |
| PUBMDCID | This cookie is set by pubmatic.com. The cookie stores an ID that is used to display ads on the users' browser. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_466 | This domain is owned by Pubmatic. It operates an advertising exchange platform where online publishers can sell targeted advertising space to media buyers using real-time bidding. |
| CMRUM3 | AdRoll is an Irish based retargeting network that allows us to show ads to visitors who’ve landed on our site while browsing the web. You can opt-out of AdRoll by clicking here. |
| CMST | AdRoll is an Irish based retargeting network that allows us to show ads to visitors who’ve landed on our site while browsing the web. You can opt-out of AdRoll by clicking here. |
| CMPRO | AdRoll is an Irish based retargeting network that allows us to show ads to visitors who’ve landed on our site while browsing the web. You can opt-out of AdRoll by clicking here. |
| CMPS | AdRoll is an Irish based retargeting network that allows us to show ads to visitors who’ve landed on our site while browsing the web. You can opt-out of AdRoll by clicking here. |
| CMID | AdRoll is an Irish based retargeting network that allows us to show ads to visitors who’ve landed on our site while browsing the web. You can opt-out of AdRoll by clicking here. |
| cm1 | These cookies are used for the purpose of serving retargeting adverts to users. |
| ouuid_lu | These cookies are used for the purpose of serving retargeting adverts to users. |
| ouuid | These cookies are used for the purpose of serving retargeting adverts to users. |
| fr | The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
| Functional | |
| audit | This cookie is set by Rubicon Project and is used for recording cookie consent data. |
| pubble_trigger | Tracks interaction with trigger messages (greeting rules). |
| pid | Helps users identify the users and lets the users use twitter related features from the webpage they are visiting. |
| optimizelyEndUserId | set by the Optimizely website optimization platform. This cookie is used to store a unique identifier which is a combination of an identifier and a random number. The purpose of the cookie is to track information on a per user basis. This is to allow the user to be properly identified and prevent duplicated data. |
| PugT | This cookie is set by pubmatic.com. The purpose of the cookie is to check when the cookies were last updated on the browser in order to limit the number of calls to the server-side cookie store. |
| Performance | |
| YSC | This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. |
| __ssid | Campaign pages can have embedded videos from Vimeo. |
| um | Set by addthis.com for sharing page links. |
| optimizelySegments | This cookie is set by Optimizely, a website optimization platform, to provide information about the audience and information like the audiences device and browser information. |
| optimizelyBuckets | This cookie is used by Optimizely, a website optimization platform, to keep track of which page experience was presented to each user for the purpose of site optimization. |
| optimizelyPendingLogEvents | This cookie is set by Optimizely, a website optimization platform, to keep track of the user events to allow the service to make a recommendation on which pages have which events. |
| _gat | This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites. |
| s_pers | Adobe Site Catalyst cookie. |
| s_sess | Adobe Site Catalyst cookie. |
| pubble_gen_uid | To identify the user across the session and return visits in the same browser. Used to identify activity, such a posting, with that user/session. |
| pubble_session_time | Tracks how long the user has been on the site. It is used for any time-based triggers. |
| test_cookie | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users' browser supports cookies. |
Managing Cookies
Except for those cookies which are essential for website functioning, users can accept or decline cookies.
You can manage your cookies preferences by clicking on the “Cookies Settings” button and enabling or disabling the cookie categories on the popup according to your preferences. Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again, enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely. In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find more on managing cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.