This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, and the different types of cookies we use to collect and protect access to information.
Please read the following carefully to understand how we use cookies to collect and protect access to data. By visiting www.authenticevidence.com, (the “Website”), using our (the “Information Services”), or accessing our software applications, including our pestel app at www.pestel.app, you are accepting and consenting to the use of cookies in accordance with this Cookies Policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store data in a web browser. The cookies are stored on your device when a website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.
For the purposes of compliance with data protection laws in the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU), we are providing a summary of the different types of cookies we use as well as their lifespan and their description.
| Cookie | Lifespan | Description |
|---|---|---|
| aesession | 3 hours | This cookie is required to store and identify a your unique session while cisiting our website in order to manage your access on the website. When you logout, the cookie will be automatically cleared from your browser. |
| messages | 3 hours | This cookie is used to provide you with standardised and customised messages that are unique to your session visiting our website. |
| aecsrftoken | 7 days | This cookie is used to provide our website with protection against Cross Site Request Forgeries (CSRF). The csrftoken cookie contains a random generated token value, which is scrambled differently with each request and response cycle between your web browser and our web servers. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | 5 months 27 days | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| m | 2 years | Stripe sets this cookie to process payments. |
| __stripe_mid | 1 year | Stripe sets this cookie to process payments. |
| __stripe_sid | 30 minutes | Stripe sets this cookie to process payments. |
| aecookiepref | 7 days | We set this cookie to remember the consent of users for the use of cookies in the 'Necessary', 'Functional', and 'Analytics' categories. |
| Cookie | Lifespan | Description |
|---|---|---|
| lang | never | LinkedIn sets this cookie to remember a user's language setting. |
| Cookie | Lifespan | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session, campaign data, and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. |
| _gid | 2 years | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. |
| _gat | 1 minute | This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain the request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high-traffic sites. |
You can change your cookie preferences within your browser of choice, which provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. We are providing hyperlinks to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.