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25 Oct 2022

Use of cookies by Boring Money

What are cookies?

Cookies and similar technologies are very small text documents or pieces of code that often contain a unique identification code. When you visit a website or use a mobile application, a computer asks your computer or mobile device for permission to save this file on your computer or mobile device and gain access to information.

Information collected through cookies and similar technologies may include the date and time of the visit and how you use a particular website or mobile application.

Why do we use cookies

Cookies make sure that during your visit of our online shop you remain logged in, all items remain stored in your shopping cart, you can shop safely and the website keeps running smoothly. The cookies also ensure that we can see how our website is used and how we can improve it.

Furthermore, depending on your preferences our own cookies may be used to present you with targeted advertisements that match your personal interests.

What type of cookies do we use?

Necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. Some of the following actions can be performed by using these cookies.

Save your cookie preferences for this website
Saving language preferences
Log in to our portal. We need to check whether you are logged in.

Performance cookies

These cookies are used to gather statistical information about the use of our website, also called analytics cookies. We use this data for performance and website optimization.

Functional cookies

These cookies enable more functionality for our website visitors. These cookies can be set by our external service providers or our own website. The following functionalities may or may not be activated when you accept this category.

Live chat services
Watch online videos
Social media sharing buttons
Login to our website with social media

Advertising / tracking cookies

These cookies are set by external advertising partners and are used for profiling and tracking data across multiple websites. If you accept these cookies, we may show our advertisements on other websites based on your user profile and preferences.

These cookies also save data about how many visitors have seen or clicked on our advertisements in order to optimize advertising campaigns.

Unclassified

These cookies are still in the classification process. They will show up in one on the following categories; Necessary, Performance, Functional or Advertising.

How can I switch off or remove cookies?

You can choose to opt out of all but the necessary cookies. In the settings of the browser, you can change the settings to ensure that cookies will be blocked. Most browsers provide you with an explanation on how to do this in the so-called ‘help-function’.

However, if you block the cookies, it is possible that you will not be able to enjoy all the technical features our website has to offer and it may negatively affect your user experience.

If you wish to change your cookie use, please contact us on gdpr@boringmoney.co.uk or manage your cookie preferences here.

Necessary

NAME (DOMAIN)	PURPOSE/EXPIRY
cookiefirst-consent www.boringmoney.co.uk	This cookie saves your cookie preferences for this website. You can change these or withdraw your consent easily. Expiry: 51 weeks 3 days
ARRAffinity .mind.boringmoney.co.uk	This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. Expiry: session
ASP.NET_SessionId calc.boringmoney.co.uk	This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. Expiry: session
ARRAffinity calc.boringmoney.co.uk	This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. Expiry: session
ARRAffinitySameSite .calc.boringmoney.co.uk	This cookie is set by websites running on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to ensure that visitor page requests are forwarded to the same server in each browser session. Expiry: session
__cf_bm .vimeo.com	The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. Expiry: 29 minutes 56 seconds
ARRAffinity .www2.boringmoney.co.uk	This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. Expiry: session
ARRAffinitySameSite .www2.boringmoney.co.uk	This cookie is set by websites running on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to ensure that visitor page requests are forwarded to the same server in each browser session. Expiry: session
ARRAffinitySameSite .mind.boringmoney.co.uk	This cookie is set by websites running on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to ensure that visitor page requests are forwarded to the same server in each browser session. Expiry: session
JSESSIONID .nr-data.net	General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. Expiry: session
cookiefirst-id www.boringmoney.co.uk	This cookie saves your cookie preferences for this website. You can change these or withdraw your consent easily. Expiry: persistent

Performance

NAME (DOMAIN)	PURPOSE/EXPIRY
_gid .boringmoney.co.uk	Registers a unique ID for a website visitor it tracks how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics. Expiry: 23 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds
_ga .boringmoney.co.uk	Registers a unique ID for a website visitor it tracks how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics. Expiry: 2 years 4 days 23 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds
_gat_gtag_UA_***_ .boringmoney.co.uk	Cookie set by Google Analytics. Used to throttle request rate. Expiry: 53 seconds
_gat_UA-**** calc.boringmoney.co.uk	Set by Google Analytics to control the request rate. Expiry: 56 seconds
_ga .mind.boringmoney.co.uk	Registers a unique ID for a website visitor it tracks how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics. Expiry: 2 years 4 days 23 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds
_gid .mind.boringmoney.co.uk	Registers a unique ID for a website visitor it tracks how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics. Expiry: 23 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds

Functional

NAME (DOMAIN)	PURPOSE/EXPIRY
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE .youtube.com	This cookie allows Youtube to check for bandwidth usage. Expiry: 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours 59 minutes 53 seconds
_GRECAPTCHA www.google.com	Necessary for the captcha to work. Stores a code to prevent user impersonation. Expiry: 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds
YSC .youtube.com	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Expiry: session
vuid .vimeo.com	Set by Google Analytics to control the request rate. Expiry: 2 years 4 days 23 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds
bmcalc-cid calc.boringmoney.co.uk	Expiry: 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds
bmcalc calc.boringmoney.co.uk	Expiry: 23 hours 59 minutes 58 seconds

Advertising

NAME (DOMAIN)	PURPOSE/EXPIRY
IDE .doubleclick.net	Cookie from Double Click (Google) which helps us to analyze and optimize our advertising campaigns. Expiry: 1 year 3 weeks 3 days 23 hours 59 minutes 57 seconds
OAID revive.boringmoney.co.uk	Associated with the OpenX banner advertising platform for publishers. Records whether specific ads have been displayed. Reportedly used for performance only rather than user targeting. As a first party cookie it cannot be used to track across domains. Expiry: 1 year 4 days 23 hours 59 minutes 54 seconds
test_cookie .doubleclick.net	This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. Expiry: 14 minutes 57 seconds
_gcl_au .boringmoney.co.uk	This cookie is set by Google Adsense for experiments with 'crosswebsite' advertising. Expiry: 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds
OAVARS[aeaf1089\"]	This cookie is associated with the OpenX banner advertising platform for publishers. Records whether specific ads have been displayed. Reportedly used for performance only rather than user targeting. As a first party cookie it cannot be used to track across domains. Expiry: session