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What are cookies?

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You can find out more about what cookies are and how they work here https://www.aboutcookies.org/ or http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

How we use cookies

We use cookies to enable certain functionality, understand how our website is used and for targeted marketing purposes. These cookies may be read by third parties and other websites you visit. We also share information about your use of our website with our analytics partners. We’ve put our cookies into the following categories to help you understand why we use them:

We use strictly necessary cookies to help make our website work, including the page navigation and access to secure areas. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, which can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.
Analytical cookies help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on its usage which you can opt out of using our cookie control function.
The marketing cookies help us to improve the relevancy of marketing campaigns you receive. The website also has functionality to track how you use the site and to display polls, surveys, and feedback forms. These place cookies which are used to provide a unique identifier and to track whether to show the poll, survey, or feedback form. You can opt out of our marketing cookies using our cookie control function.

We sometimes use persistent cookies as well as session-based cookies. A persistent cookie will remain for a set period for that cookie. A session cookie only last as long as your online session and disappears from your computer or device when you close your browser (like Chrome or Safari).

First-party cookies originate from the website you are using, but third-party cookies do not originate from our website. For example, when you use abta.com, we may link to another company's website – like our Facebook or Twitter account, or a video from our YouTube page. We don't control how these companies use their cookies, so we suggest you check their website to see how they're using them and how you can manage them.

Controlling your cookies

If you wish to restrict or block cookies set by any website, including abta.com, you do this can through your web browser settings. We’ve provided some links below to the more popular websites with information on how to manage cookies. Please check your particular browser and device for correct and up-to-date information.

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abta.com cookies

First party cookies

Name	Category	Purpose	Expiry
Abta-session sSessID	Strictly necessary	This cookie is essential to the functionality of abta.com, it is deleted when you close your browser.	Session
__cf_bm	Strictly necessary	This cookie helps to understand if you're a human or a robot and is used as part of the site’s security.	One day
Mw_cookie_ consent	Functionality	This controls the visibility of abta.com’s cookie statement.	One month
SimpleSAMLAuthToken	Functionality	This is used to authenticate your abta.com user account.	Session
_gat	Analytical	These cookies are used by Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. For more information please read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data	Session
_ga			Two years
_gid			Session
_gali			Session
_hjClosedSurveyInvites	Marketing	Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown.	One year
yInvites	Marketing	Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown.
_hjDonePolls	Marketing	Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in.	One year
_hjMinimizedPolls	Marketing	Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site.	One year
_hjShownFeedbackMessage	Marketing	This cookie is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show.	One year
BookingID	Marketing	This cookie only set when you click on an advert for an ABTA event and are subsequently redirected to abta.com.	24 hours
_fbp _fbc fr	Marketing	Meta (Facebook and Instagram) cookies. These cookies are set when a visitor opens our website and used to provide anonymised data to Meta for targeted advertising. For more information please refer to Meta’s privacy centre	90 days
_pinterest_sess _pinterest_ct _pinterest_ct_rt _epik _derived_epik _routing_id _pin_unauth _pinterest_ct_ua	Marketing	These cookies are set when a user clicks on a Pin in Pinterest. They help us understand how users interact with us on Pinterest and we use the information to compile reports and improve our services. For more information please refer to Pinterest's privacy centre.	One year