- Introduction
- We collect and use personal information about you in the course of providing letting, community and property management services (“the Services”), including Grainger Online Portals (“the Portal”).
- In this Cookie Policy:
- references to we, us or our means Grainger plc, a limited company registered in England (company number:125575), whose registered office is Citygate, St James Boulevard, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 4JE, United Kingdom. Our VAT registration number is 436 2362 61.
- references to you or your means the person accessing and using the Services or the Portal;
- Information about Our Use of Cookies
- Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you access most websites (including online portals) on the internet or open certain emails. Among other things, cookies allow a website to recognise your device and remember if you have accessed the website before. We use the term cookie to refer to cookies and technologies that perform a similar function to cookies (for example, tags, pixels and web beacons). Cookies can be read by the originating Portal on each subsequent visit and by any other website that recognises the cookie.
- Our websites use cookies to distinguish you from other users of the site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you use the sites and also allows us to improve the website. Further information about the types of cookies that are used on the sites is set out in the table below.
- You can choose to restrict or block cookies through your browser settings at any time. For more information about how to do this, and about cookies in general, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
- The Websites use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the websites and when you leave the websites they are deleted automatically. They help to improve navigation and allow you to return to pages you have previously visited.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This, for example, enables us to remember your preferences (choices you’ve made like language). These Cookies will remain on your device until you choose to clear it. If you choose to do this, you will need to enter your details each time you visit the site.
- Performance Cookies. They are used to count the number of visitors to our website and the way visitors use the site. An example would be ensuring users are finding what they are looking for. We cannot identify you personally as the data is aggregated and anonymised.
- Targeting Cookies. These Cookies will collect information about your browsing habits and allow us or 3rd parties to deliver targeted advertising. We cannot control 3rd party cookies.
List of cookies used on the website
Name Description Category Expiry AWSALB AWS ELB application load balancer Strictly necessary 7 days AWSALBCORS This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. Strictly necessary 7 days __CookieConsent Any site using Investis Digital Cookie Manager will contain this cookie. The cookie deals with alerting users of the use of cookies at the time of the first load. It stores the preferences saved by the user and helps drop only those cookies that are consented to by the user. Strictly necessary 90 __CookieConsentV* Any site using Investis Digital Cookie Manager will contain this cookie. The cookie deals with alerting users of the use of cookies at the time of first load. It stores the preferences saved by the user and helps drop only those cookies that are consented by the user. It is designed to help you comply with the hideous EU Cookie Law and not make you want to hurt yourself in the process. Strictly necessary End of browser session _ifa To store and track audience reach. Performance Cookie 2 years _gid Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics. Performance Cookie 1 day _ga Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics. Performance Cookie 730 days _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. Performance Cookie End of the browser session ASP.NET_SessionId This is a cookie used to identify the users' session on the server. The session used to store data in between off HTTP requests on server. Third party cookies End of the browser session AWSALBTG AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: The ASWALBTG cookie is a load balancer-generated cookie for Weighted Target Groups. It is used to honor sticky sessions and enable target group stickiness. When the load balancer first routes a request to a weighted target group, it generates an encrypted cookie named AWSALBTG that encodes information about the selected target group and includes the cookie in the response to the client. When the load balancer receives a request from the same client that matches a rule with target group stickiness enabled and contains the cookie, the request is routed to the target group specified in the cookie. Third party cookies 7 Days AWSALBTGCORS This cookie is associated with Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality. It is used to honor sticky sessions and enable target group stickiness. Third party cookies 7 Days JSESSIONID This domain is controlled by New Relic, which provides a platform for monitoring the performance of web and mobile applications. Third party cookies End of the browser session player This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing Third party cookies 1 Year vuid This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing Third party cookies 2 Years __cf_bm To read and filter requests from bots. Strictly Necessary A few seconds _cfuvid The _cfuvid cookie is set on a user’s browser to assign them a unique ID in addition to identifying them through their IP address. Without this cookie, visitors to a site will be recognized as the same user if they share the same IP, and any data collected will be shared for all users with that IP. Strictly Necessary End of session cf_clearance The Clearance Cookie stores proof that a challenge was passed. If present, it prevents Strictly Necessary 1 Year - Restricting or Blocking Cookies
Please be aware that restricting or blocking cookies set on the Portal may impact the functionality or performance of the Portal, or prevent you from using certain services provided through the Portal. It will also affect our ability to update the Portal to cater for user preferences and improve performance.
- Third Party Cookies
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services such as web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control, although we may receive services from these third parties (including, for example, Portal analytics).
- Cookies on the Websites
You can see the table of cookies we use on the Portal here.
- Contact
If you have any questions regarding this Cookie Policy, please contact us at [email protected].
This cookie policy was last updated on 04/01/2021