Cookie Policy

Mirus IT Cookie Policy

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES

This website stores cookies on your computer. These cookies are used to collect information about how you interact with our website and allow us to remember you. We use this information to improve and customise your browsing experience and for analytics and metrics about our visitors both on this website and other media.

​​​WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device (including but not limited to mobiles, tablets, storage cards and hard drives) when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.

​​WHAT TYPES OF COOKIES DO WE USE, AND HOW DO WE USE COOKIES?

Our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

The cookies used on our website are grouped into the following categories:

NECESSARY

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

COOKIE NAME PROVIDER EXPIRY DESCRIPTION
wordpress_pagination mirus-it.co.uk an hour
PHPSESSID mirus-it.co.uk session This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables.
__cf_bm mirus-it.co.uk 30 mins This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
ANALYTICS

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

COOKIE NAME PROVIDER EXPIRY DESCRIPTION
_gid mirus-it.co.uk a day ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity
_ga mirus-it.co.uk a year ID used to identify users
_dc_gtm_UA-167617485-1 mirus-it.co.uk a minute Used to throttle request rate.
_ga_R04R3WDSSM mirus-it.co.uk a year Used to persist session state
_ga_SXXESQBVG2 mirus-it.co.uk a year Used to persist session state
FUNCTIONAL

Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedback, and other third-party features.

COOKIE NAME PROVIDER EXPIRY DESCRIPTION
_hjFirstSeen mirus-it.co.uk 30 minutes The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user’s journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information.
YSC youtube.com session Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress mirus-it.co.uk 30 minutes The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user’s journey for a total session count.
_hjSessionUser_2856755 mirus-it.co.uk a year The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user’s journey for a total session count.
_hjIncludedInSessionSample_2856755 mirus-it.co.uk 2 minutes The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user’s journey for a total session count.
_hjSession_2856755 mirus-it.co.uk 30 minutes The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user’s journey for a total session count.
ADVERTISEMENT

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customised ads.

COOKIE NAME PROVIDER EXPIRY DESCRIPTION
_gcl_au mirus-it.co.uk 3 months Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services.
NID google.com 6 months Collects website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE youtube.com 6 months Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
drift_campaign_refresh mirus-it.co.uk 30 minutes Sets a unique ID for the specific user. This allows the website to target the user with relevant offers through its chat functionality.
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HOW CAN I CONTROL THE COOKIE PREFERENCES?
CHOICES ABOUT COOKIES
DATA PRIVACY