Cookie Policy
About this cookie policy
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them. You should read this policy to understand what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Your consent applies to the following domains: www.gaiamedical.co.uk
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies?
As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use?
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket and checkout securely.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.
The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
| Cookie | Type | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary | |||
| checkForPermission | HTTP Cookie | 10 minutes | This cookie determines if the website visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | Necessary | 1 hour | 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”. This allows us to recognise whether or not you consent to using necessary cookies on our website. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary | Necessary | 11 months | 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”. This allows us to recognise whether or not you consent to using non-necessary cookies on our website. |
| Advertisement | |||
| ayl_visitor | Advertisement | 2 months | This cookie registers data on the visitor. The information is used to optimize advertisement relevance. |
| eud | Advertisement | 1 year | These cookies are from Rocket Fuel and are used to deliver targeted advertising across their network sites ensuring users see relevant advertising. |
| csync | Advertisement | 1 year | This cookie optimises the visualisation of ads according to combined user movement and various campaigns. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_699 | Advertisement | 1 month | This cookie is set by PubMatic Inc and may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. |
| _adstanding_id | Advertisement | 1 year | This is an advertising cookie that connects advertisers, marketers and agencies to our website. |
| auid | Advertisement | 68 years | This cookie is used to hold the advertising ID of a user on a mobile device. It is used for tracking user actions. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_153 | Advertisement | 3 months | This cookie is set by PubMatic Inc and may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. |
| tuuid_new | Advertisement | 2 years | This cookie is provided by bidswitch.net and is used for advertising purposes. |
| tuuid_new_lu | Advertisement | 2 years | This cookie is usually provided by bidswitch.net and is used for advertising purposes. |
| bsw_uid | Advertisement | 2 years | This cookie is used to identify the visitor across visits and devices. This allows the website to present the visitor with relevant advertisement – The service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitate real-time bidding for advertisers. |
| V | Advertisement | 11 months | Marketo tracking code. Tracks all individuals who visit and run automated marketing campaigns. |
| pb_rtb_ev | Advertisement | 11 months | This cookie is used by contextweb.com and is used for advertising purposes. |
| _nauid | Advertisement | 11 months | This cookie collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement – This also allows the website to limit the number of times that the visitor is shown the same advertisement. |
| gi_u | Advertisement | 11 months | Used for targeted ads and to document efficacy of each individual ad. |
| smxtrack | Advertisement | 11 months | This cookie is used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor’s preferences. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_330 | Advertisement | 1 month | This cookie is set by PubMatic Inc and may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_80 | Advertisement | 3 months | This cookie is set by PubMatic Inc and may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. |
| did | Advertisement | 11 months | The purpose of the cookie is to identify a visitor to serve relevant advertisement. |
| didts | Advertisement | 11 months | The purpose of the cookie is to identify a visitor to serve relevant advertisement. |
| nnls | Advertisement | 2 months | The purpose of the cookie is to identify a visitor to serve relevant advertisement. |
| IDSYNC | Advertisement | 1 year | This cookie is used for advertising purposes. |
| sa-user-id | Advertisement | 11 months | The cookie is set by StackAdapt used for advertisement purposes. |
| sa-user-id-v2 | Advertisement | 11 months | The cookie is set by StackAdapt used for advertisement purposes. |
| ad-id | Advertisement | 7 months | Provided by amazon-adsystem.com for tracking user actions on other websites to provide targeted content. |
| ad-privacy | Advertisement | 5 years | Provided by amazon-adsystem.com for tracking user actions on other websites to provide targeted content to the users. |
| TapAd_TS | Advertisement | 2 months | The cookie is set by Tapad.com. The purpose of the cookie is to track users across devices to enable targeted advertising. |
| TapAd_DID | Advertisement | 2 months | The cookie is set by tapad.com. The purpose of the cookie is to track users across devices to enable targeted advertising. |
| pxrc | Advertisement | 2 months | The purpose of the cookie is to identify a visitor to serve relevant advertisement. |
| DotomiTest | Advertisement | 1 minute | These cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at. |
| rlas3 | Advertisement | 11 months | The cookie is set by rlcdn.com. The cookie is used to serve relevant ads to the visitor as well as limit the time the visitor sees an and also measure the effectiveness of the campaign. |
| _kuid_ | Advertisement | 5 months | The cookie is set by Krux Digital under the domain krxd.net. The cookie stores a unique ID to identify a returning user for the purpose of targeted advertising. |
| TestIfCookieP | Advertisement | 1 year | This cookie is used to make advertising messages more relevant to website visitor. |
| bito | Advertisement | 1 year | This cookie is set by bidr.io for advertisement purposes. |
| TDCPM | Advertisement | 1 year | The cookie is set by CloudFare service to store a unique ID to identify a returning users device which then is used for targeted advertising. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_188 | Advertisement | 5 months | This cookie is set by PubMatic Inc and may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. |
| PUBMDCID | Advertisement | 3 months | This cookie is set by pubmatic.com. The cookie stores an ID that is used to display ads on the users’ browser. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_27 | Advertisement | 1 month | This cookie is set by PubMatic Inc and may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_218 | Advertisement | 3 months | This cookie is set by PubMatic Inc and may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_22 | Advertisement | 1 month | This cookie is set by PubMatic Inc and may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_148 | Advertisement | 1 month | This cookie is set by PubMatic Inc and may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. |
| KRTBCOOKIE_377 | Advertisement | 3 months | This cookie is set by PubMatic Inc and may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. |
| uid | Advertisement | 5 months | This cookie is used to measure the number and behavior of the visitors to the website anonymously. The data includes the number of visits, average duration of the visit on the website, pages visited, etc. for the purpose of better understanding user preferences for targeted advertisments. |
| uuid | Advertisement | 1 year | To optimize ad relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple websites such as what pages have been loaded. |
| pd | Advertisement | 2 weeks | This cookie is generally provided by openx.net and is used for advertising purposes. |
| uuidc | Advertisement | 1 year | This cookie is used to stores information about how the user uses the website such as what pages have been loaded and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This data is used to provide users with relevant ads. |
| KTPCACOOKIE | Advertisement | 3 months | This cookie is set by pubmatic.com for the purpose of checking if third-party cookies are enabled on the user’s website. |
| KCCH | Advertisement | 1 day | This cookie is set by Pubmatic. This cookie ensures that a PubMatic user ID is already set and that PubMatic’s code is running properly. |
| KADUSERCOOKIE | Advertisement | 3 months | The cookie is set by pubmatic.com for identifying the visitors’ website or device from which they visit PubMatic’s partners’ website. |
| khaos | Advertisement | 11 months | 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. |
| wfivefivec | Advertisement | 1 year | This cookie is generally provided by w55c.net and is used for advertising purposes. |
| everest_g_v2 | Advertisement | 11 months | 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. |
| TDID | Advertisement | 1 year | The cookie is set by CloudFare service to store a unique ID to identify a returning users device which then is used for targeted advertising. |
| tuuid | Advertisement | 2 years | 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_lu | Advertisement | 2 years | 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. |
| APID | Advertisement | 1 year | 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. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertisement | 5 months | This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. |
| IDE | Advertisement | 1 year | 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. |
| test_cookie | Advertisement | 15 minutes | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users’ browser supports cookies. |
| Functional | |||
| cf_ob_info | Functional | 1 minute | This cookie is used to detect if a website in inaccessible, in case of maintenance of content updates. The cookie allows the website to present the visitor with a notice on the issue in question. |
| cf_use_ob | Functional | 1 minute | This cookie is used to detect if a website in inaccessible, in case of maintenance of content updates. The cookie allows the website to present the visitor with a notice on the issue in question. |
| tads_uid | Functional | 4 years | This cookie is used to enable user to share pages through third party social networking websites. |
| tads_uid_cd | Functional | 4 years | This cookie is used to enable user to share pages through third party social networking websites. |
| PugT | Functional | 1 month | 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. |
| ts | Functional | 11 months | This cookie is generally provided by PayPal and supports payment services in the website. |
| INGRESSCOOKIE | Functional | Session | This cookie contains the session data that distinguishes one visitor from another. |
| SPugT | Functional | 1 month | This cookie is set by pubmatic.com. The cookie is used in conjuction with the PugT cookie to track when the server-side cookie store was last updated for the browser. |
| pid | Functional | 1 year | Helps users identify the users and lets the users use twitter related features from the webpage they are visiting. |
| audit | Functional | This cookie is set by Rubicon Project and is used for recording cookie consent data. | |
| viewed_cookie_policy | Functional | 1 hour | 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. |
| pll_language | Functional | 11 months | This cookie is set by Polylang plugin for WordPress powered websites. The cookie stores the language code of the last browsed page. This helps us recognise which language is best for you to view the website in. |
| Analytics | |||
| tk_ai | Analytics | 4 years | Gathers information for WordPress by themselves, first party analytics tool about how WP services are used. A collection of internal metrics for user activity, used to improve user experience. |
| tk_qs | Analytics | 30 minutes | Gathers information for WordPress by themselves, first party analytics tool about how WP services are used. A collection of internal metrics for user activity, used to improve user experience. |
| mc | Analytics | 1 year | This cookie is associated with Quantserve to track anonymously how a user interact with the website. |
| ruds | Analytics | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked. | |
| _ga | Analytics | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
| _gid | Analytics | 1 day | 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_150387098_1 | Analytics | 1 minute | Google uses this cookie to distinguish users. |
| YSC | Analytics | This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. | |
| GPS | Analytics | 30 minutes | This cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location. |
| tk_r3d | Analytics | 3 days | The cookie is installed by JetPack. Used for the internal metrics fo user activities to improve user experience. |
| tk_lr | Analytics | 11 months | This cookie is set by JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce. This is a referral cookie used for analyzing referrer behavior for Jetpack. |
| tk_or | Analytics | 4 years | This cookie is set by JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce. This is a referral cookie used for analysing referrer behaviour for Jetpack. Jetpack and WooCommerce are plugins used to help run the website. |
| Other | |||
| myads | Unclassified | 4 weeks | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| data-o | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| data-so | Unclassified | 4 weeks | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| data-rk | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| tt_viewer | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| data-r1 | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| __uis | Unclassified | 1 month | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| DPSync3 | Unclassified | 3 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| _ssum | Unclassified | 1 month | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| euid | Unclassified | 11 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are in the process of classifying it. |
| tads_zora | Unclassified | 4 years | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| tads_uidp_73 | Unclassified | 4 years | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| data-dmx | Unclassified | 11 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| vid | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| bsw_sync | Unclassified | 11 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| ssp_data | Unclassified | 5 minutes | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| B | Unclassified | 1 year | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are in the process of classifying it. |
| TapAd_3WAY_SYNCS | Unclassified | 2 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are in the process of classifying it. |
| _dm_uid | Unclassified | 2 weeks | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are in the process of classifying it. |
| chkChromeAb67Sec | Unclassified | 3 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| SyncRTB3 | Unclassified | 3 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| data-bs | Unclassified | 11 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| data-mm | Unclassified | 11 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| data-mf | Unclassified | 11 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| ssi | Unclassified | 11 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| bitoIsSecure | Unclassified | 1 year | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| u | Unclassified | 3 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| dsp_id | Unclassified | 6 months | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| GUC | Unclassified | 1 year | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| pux | Unclassified | 3 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| a3 | Unclassified | 1 year | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| rum | Unclassified | 2 years | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| data-amb | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| data-ayl | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| univ_id | Unclassified | 2 weeks | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| pi | Unclassified | 1 day | This cookie is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| visitor-id | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| i | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| APIDTS | Unclassified | 1 day | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| 33x_ps | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| c | Unclassified | 11 months | This cookie is set by the Rubicon Project. The exact purpose of the cookie is not known. |
| am-uid | Unclassified | 2 years | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| ar1d | Unclassified | 2 years | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| lcri5m | Unclassified | 2 years | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| lcai9h | Unclassified | 2 years | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| d | Unclassified | 3 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| cref | Unclassified | 1 year | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| data | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| HAPLB8S | Unclassified | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. | |
| data-max | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| rud | Unclassified | 1 year | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| tt_bluekai | Unclassified | 1 day | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| tt_emetriq | Unclassified | 1 day | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| tt_liveramp | Unclassified | 1 day | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| tt_neustar | Unclassified | 1 day | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| tt_salesforce | Unclassified | 1 day | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| tt_dar | Unclassified | 1 day | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| tt_skp | Unclassified | 1 day | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| pids | Unclassified | 3 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| avnguid | Unclassified | 11 months | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| tps | Unclassified | 2 years | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| __ATA_tuuid | Unclassified | 2 years | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
| tt_exelate | Unclassified | 1 day | This cook is currently unclassified. We are working on classifying it. |
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Below is a list of the third party cookies on www.gaiamedical.co.uk:
- Adnxs.com
- Google AdSense
- Google Analytics
- Teads.TV
- WordPress
- Youtube
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