1.         Introduction

Everlight Radiology has adopted a Cookie Policy. This website uses Cookies. Cookies are small text files that may be placed on your browser when visiting our website. Cookies allow your browser to remember some specific information which the web server can later retrieve and use. When you quit your browser, some cookies are stored in your computer’s memory, while some expire or disappear.

2.         Scope

Everlight Radiology requires all staff and contractors to adhere to the Cookies Policy.

3.         Responsibility & Accountability

The Chief Executive Officer and the Information Governance Forum (IGF) have ultimate responsibility for the implementation and review of the Cookies Policy. Managers are to commit to the policy to ensure the policy operates effectively.

4.         Key Concepts

4.1       First and third-party cookies

Whether a cookie is 'first' or 'third' party refers to the domain placing the cookie.

First-party cookies are those set by a website that is being visited by the user at the time (e.g., cookies placed by our website domain).

Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, this would be a third-party cookie.

4.2       Persistent cookies

These cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

4.3       Session cookies

These cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.[This website uses both persistent and session cookies.] A complete list of the cookies we use can be viewed in the cookies table below.

5.         Cookies used on the website:

Cookies are used on our website primarily to improve your online experience. This website uses the following types of Cookies:

5.1       Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.

5.2       Performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

5.3       Functionality cookies

These cookies are used to provide services or to allow the website to remember choices you make (such as language or the region you are in, settings you have applied such as layout, text size and preferences, remember if you have engaged with a particular component or list on the website so that it won't repeat and show when you are logged into the website).

6.         Third party cookies

In addition to the above cookies, we also use Google Analytics to help collect and compile information like the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Visit Google’s site for an overview of privacy at Google and information on how to opt out of the Google Analytics cookie. Where this site allows such cookies to be set or you access other websites from this site using the links provided, the operators of these websites will use cookies in accordance with their own cookies policy, which may differ from ours.]

We do not use cookies to store any personal information that could be read or understood by others. For more information on how we collect and use information that is identifiable to you, please refer to our Privacy Notice.

7.         How to Delete and Block our Cookies

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of the website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit the website.

8.         Changing your Cookie Settings.

The browser settings for changing your cookies settings are usually found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your internet browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Otherwise you should use the 'Help' option in your internet browser for more details.

  • Internet Explorer: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cookies/en
  • Mozilla Firefox: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Cookies
  • Google Chrome: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647
  • Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042

More information. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. If you have questions or concerns regarding this policy or our personal data processing policies, please contact us at: dataprotection@everlightradiology.com

9.         Cookies Table

Technical Name

First or third party cookie

Purpose

Session/Persistent

Type

_ga

Google

Used by Google Analytics to

Persistent - 2

Performance

 

Analytics

distinguish users and sessions.

years

 

 

– Third

More info here

 

 

 

party

https://developers.google.com/ana

 

 

 

cookie

lytics/devguides/collection/analytic

 

 

 

 

sjs/cookie-usage

 

 

_gid

Google

Used by Google Analytics to

Persistent - 24 Hours

Performance

 

Analytics

distinguish users and sessions.

 

 

 

– Third

More info here

 

 

 

party

https://developers.google.com/ana

 

 

 

cookie

lytics/devguides/collection/analytic

 

 

 

 

sjs/cookie-usage

 

 

_gat

Google

Used by Google Analytics to

Persistent - 1 minute

Performance

 

Analytics

distinguish users and sessions. Used

 

 

 

– Third

to throttle request rate. More info

 

 

 

party

here

 

 

 

cookie

https://developers.google.com/ana

 

 

 

 

lytics/devguides/collection/analytic

 

 

 

 

sjs/cookie-usage

 

 

amp

Google

Used by Google Analytics to

Persistent - 1 minute

Performance

 

Analytics

distinguish users and sessions.

 

 

 

– Third

More info here

 

 

 

Party

https://developers.google.com/ana

 

 

 

Cookie

lytics/devguides/collection/analytic

 

 

 

 

sjs/cookie-usage

 

 

_gac_

Google Analytics & Ads - Third Party Cookie

Used by Google Analytics & Ads to distinguish users and sessions.

More info here https://developers.google.com/ana lytics/devguides/collection/analytic sjs/cookie-usage

Persistent - 90 days

Performance

   hs_opt

_out

Hubspot First Party cookie

This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again.

Persistent - 13 Months

Strictly necessary cookies

hs_ab_tes t

Hubspot First Party cookie

This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before

Session

Strictly necessary cookies

hs_langsw itcher_ch oice

Hubspot First Party cookie

This cookie is used to save the

visitor’s selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages.

It gets set when an end user selects a language from the language switcher and is used as a language preference to redirect them to sites in their chosen language in the

future, if they are available.

persistent - 2 years

Strictly necessary cookies

   hstc

Hubspot First Party cookie

The main cookie for tracking visitors.

It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).

Persistent - 13 Months

Performance

 

10.      Validity of this Policy

This Policy will be reviewed once in a three-year certification cycle by the Global IGF.