A “cookie” is a text file which is allocated by our server to your computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit our website. If you want to know more about cookies please go to www.allaboutcookies.org which explains how cookies work and how you can manage their use. We use cookies to collect information from visitors to our websites and registered customers. These help us monitor the number of visitors looking at particular web pages and advertisements, which lets us determine how frequently particular pages are visited, and which are the most popular areas of our website.

Cookies also allow us to make our website more stable, so that we can give you a better and more user-friendly experience when you return to it. For example, they allow us to save your password so that you do not have to re-enter it every time you visit. We do not use cookies to record other information on individuals.

Other companies advertising their products or services on our website may also download cookies on to your computer or mobile device. These companies will have their own privacy policies which govern the way they use their cookies. XLN accepts no responsibility or liability for these sites.

You can decide to remove all types of cookies from your computer or mobile device. However, this can have a negative effect on your website services, including xln.co.uk. Accessing the “advanced preferences” settings in your browser, will let you choose whether to accept or block cookies, or to be notified and asked to accept cookies. To remove the “Remember me” cookie on www.xln.co.uk/myaccount, just untick the box when you sign in.

The following outlines all the XLN cookies used on the XLN.co.uk website.

Cookies created by xln.co.uk

affl. Affiliate/Marketing Source tracking (functional). Tells XLN where inbound traffic comes from.

**cookie_bar_key. **Cookie Bar tracking (functional). Stops us from continuing to show you the cookie bar every time you visit the site, once you have accepted our cookies policy.

whitepaperscookie. BizHub/Whitepaper tracking (functional). Stops us from continuing to ask for your email address after the first time you provide it.

.AspNetCore.Session. Supports your use of the website, particularly iterative elements such as filling in contact forms.

**.AspNetCore.Antiforgery. **Used to protect you from Cross Site Request Forgery. Cross-site request forgery, also known as one-click attack or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF (sometimes pronounced sea-surf) or XSRF, is a type of malicious exploit of a website where unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user that the web application trusts.

Third-party cookies

Advertising Cookies

DOUBLECLICK

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We use DoubleClick to help us monitor the performance of our online advertisements.

DoubleClick cookies contain no personally identifiable information. Sometimes the cookie contains an additional identifier that is similar in appearance to the cookie ID. This identifier is used to identify an ad campaign to which a user was exposed previously; but no other data is stored by DoubleClick in the cookie, and none of the data is personally identifiable.

You can view the DoubleClick cookie policy here

You can manage your Google Ads Preferences here

BING ADS

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We use Bing Ads cookie to help us track and improve the performance of our advertisements on Bing.com search properties.

AFFILIATE WINDOW/DIGITAL WINDOW

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We use Affiliate Window to track the performance of traffic from affiliate partners, who provide relevant information and services direct to customers, and link through to XLN.co.uk.

TWITTER ADVERTISING

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We use a Twitter advertising cookie to help us track and improve the performance of our social advertisements and notices on Twitter.com.

YIELDIFY

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Yieldify will:

• Create cookies used for targeting visitors.
• Record how much time you have spent on the website (anonymously).
• Record how many times you have visited the website (anonymously).
• Record the URL of particular pages that you have visited on the website.

Yieldify will not:

• Share any personal information with third parties.

FACEBOOK CUSTOM AUDIENCE, FACEBOOK PIXEL AND FACEBOOK CONNECT

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We use Facebook advertising cookies to help us track and improve the performance of our social advertisements and notices on facebook.com.

If you’re a Facebook User you can view and control how your information is used here: https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/.

LINKEDIN MARKETING SOLUTIONS

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We use LinkedIn Marketing cookies to help us track and improve the performance of our social advertisements and notices on LinkedIn.

Customer Interaction Cookies

LIVEPERSON

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We use cookies for LivePerson to support our online chat functionality – allowing us to continue conversations across multiple pages and give you the fastest possible response.

Essential Cookies

GOOGLE TAG MANAGER

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We use Google Tag Manager to manage our third party cookies.

CLOUDFLARE

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We use CloudFlare to keep individual web users safe when they’re using a shared address.

Details here

Site Analytics Cookies

GOOGLE ANALYTICS, GA AUDIENCES

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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use this information to compile reports and help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited while using the site.

You can view the Google Analytics privacy policy here

You can opt-out of Google Analytics here

PIWIK

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RESPONSETAP

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ResponseTap cookies show each visitor a unique telephone number by which to call us. We use the information gathered to analyse and understand how people interact with our website.

For opt-out information visit https://www.responsetap.com

VISUAL WEB OPTIMIZER

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We use Visual Web Optimiser to monitor browsing sessions and site engagement, and to optimise the user experience and deliver a better online service.

Nextroll

Our site uses technologies of third-party partners such as NextRoll to help us recognize your device and understand how you use our site(s) so that we can improve our services to reflect your interests and serve you advertisements about the products and/or services that are likely to be of more interest to you. Specifically, NextRoll/these partners collect information about your activity on our site(s) to enable us to:

• measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on our site(s);
• show advertisements for our products and/or services to you on third-party sites;
• measure and analyze the performance of our advertising campaigns;

Cross-Device

We may share data, such as hashed email derived from emails or other online identifiers collected on our site(s) with NextRoll/ our advertising partners. This allows our partners to recognize and deliver you ads across devices and browsers. To read more about the technologies used by NextRoll/our partner and their cross-device capabilities please refer to NextRoll’s Privacy Notice.

Opting-out

Our partners, such as NextRoll, may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not permit you to block such technologies. For this reason you can use the following third-party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the purpose of serving you interest-based advertising:

The NAI’s opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/

The EDAA’s opt-out platform http://www.youronlinechoices.com/

The DAA’s opt-out platform: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN