Cookies

To make our site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

Performance Cookies:

  • name
    domain
    expiration
    description
  • _ga
    .alchemyloop.com
    2 years
    This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
  • _gid
    .alchemyloop.com
    1 year
    This cookie name is associated with Google Analytics. It is used by gtag.js and analytics.js scripts and according to Google Analytics this cookie is used to distinguish users.

Tracking Cookies:

  • name
    domain
    expiration
    description
  • _gat_gtag_UA_*
    .alchemyloop.com
    1 minute
    This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate).
  • _fbp
    .alchemyloop.com
    3 months
    Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers.
  • fr
    .facebook.com
    3 months
    Contains browser and user unique ID combinaton, used for targeted advertising.

Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.