Many of the features that make our website easy to use rely on us understanding how you use https://www.norgemineraler.com (the “website”) and remembering the information you freely provide. We do this by gathering small amounts of data each time you visit. This data is stored as “cookies”.
By using our website, you are agreeing to the use of cookies by us as described below and in our privacy policy.
What’s a cookie?
Cookies are small pieces of data that live in your web browser (web browsers include Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari).
Cookies are harmless text files. They can’t look into your computer or read any personal information or other material on your hard drive. Cookies can’t carry viruses or install anything harmful on your computer.
If you’d like to find out more about cookies, what they’re for and how to manage them, there’s an excellent explanation in Google’s good to know campaign, written in partnership with the Citizens Advice Bureau.
The different cookies we use
System cookies are created each time you visit us and are automatically deleted when you close your browser. They remember the fact you’ve visited and the selections that you make as you use the website.
Identification cookies help us remember who you are when you come back to visit us.
Web analytics / Marketing effectiveness cookies collect anonymous data to help us understand visitor behavior, so we can make our website better. They tell us which parts of the Website visitors use the most and flag up any problems, so we can fix them quickly. They also tell us how customers find the Website (for example via social media platforms and search engines), so we know how effectively we are marketing.
The different cookies we use
System cookies are created each time you visit us and are automatically deleted when you close your browser. They remember the fact you’ve visited and the selections that you make as you use the website.
Identification cookies help us remember who you are when you come back to visit us.
Web analytics / Marketing effectiveness cookies collect anonymous data to help us understand visitor behavior, so we can make our website better. They tell us which parts of the Website visitors use the most and flag up any problems, so we can fix them quickly. They also tell us how customers find the Website (for example via social media platforms and search engines), so we know how effectively we are marketing.
Cookies for optimising the content shown on our website
We may wish to test a change or new feature on the site to see if it is effective before rolling it out to all our users. Cookies allow a random sample of site visitors to see it one way, and a different group another and ensure that you consistently get the same experience on repeat visits.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | More Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cookie Consent | moove_gdpr_popup | Cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies. | Duration: 30 days |
| Amazon Web Services | AWSALB AWSALBCORS | Cookie set by Amazon Web Services Load Balancer to preserve server session stickiness | This cookie is deleted 1 week after creation |
| X SRF-TOKEN | Cookie set by Laravel framework to protect against cross-site exploits. | This cookie is deleted 2 hours after creation. | |
| PHPSESSID | Session cookie | This cookie is deleted after browsing session ends. |
Google Analytics
| Name | Purpose | More Information |
|---|---|---|
| _ga _gat _gid | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to 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. | Click here for an overview of privacy at Google. This cookie is saved for 12 months. |
YouTube
| Name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| APISID | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on other websites. | 2 years |
| HSID | This cookie is used for security purposes to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized access. | 2 years |
| PREF | This cookie is used to store preferences and other information such as preferred language, number of search results to display per page, and Google SafeSearch filtering. | 10 years |
| SAPISID | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on other websites. | 2 years |
| SID | This cookie is used for security purposes to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized access. | 2 years |
| SSID | This cookie is used for security purposes to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized access. | 2 years |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used to track user preferences for YouTube videos embedded on other websites. | 6 months |
| YSC | This cookie is used to track views of embedded videos. | Session |
Your preferences
If you would prefer us not to set cookies on our website, you can disable them by changing your internet browser settings. How to do this will depend on the browser you are using, but the following is a step-by-step guide to the most popular browsers:
Firefox
To prevent new cookies from being installed:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
To delete existing cookies:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
Google Chrome
To prevent new cookies from being installed and delete existing cookies:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Safari
To prevent new cookies from being installed and delete existing cookies:
http://help.apple.com/safari/mac/8.0/#/sfri11471
For all other browsers, please follow the instructions provided by the relevant browser, usually located within the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” facility.
