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Our use of Seismic
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Cookie name | Purpose | Type | Origin |
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cookie-agreed | Used to keep track of if the end user has agreed to use cookies. | Session | Emerald |
Targeting cookies
These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are placed on our website by our chosen advertising, marketing and analytics providers, social media platforms and search engines with our permission. These cookies remember that you have visited our website and this information is shared with our chosen providers. They collect information about your browsing activities on our website and allow our providers to track you when you visit other websites, platforms or search engines, so that they can serve our adverts to you. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
The partner organisations that supply these additional services provide a mechanism for you to opt out of any tracking and personalisation. Details of how to do this are given below.
Cookie name | Purpose | Type | Origin |
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The Emerald website allows users to post links to Emerald content on their social networking profiles via the ShareThis service. ShareThis cookies record which sites and pages have been "shared" and advertisements that users see on subsequent sites may reflect this. On clicking the ShareThis icon, users can opt out of any tracking by ShareThis (a further cookie, st_optout, records this). See the ShareThis privacy policy for more information. | Persistent | ShareThis |
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A number of information pages on the Emerald website display advertisements and these are selected based on the page they appear on and the user's browsing history as recorded by the DoubleClick cookies. On clicking the AdChoices link on each advertisement, users can opt out of any tracking by DoubleClick. See the Google privacy policy for more information. | Persistent | DoubleClick |