Cookie Policy
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier, that is sent to your computer or mobile phone browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your device’s hard drive.
In the Trade Direct Insurance’s website, cookies allow us to identify your visit and to collect information about how you have used our site.
Trade Direct Insurance will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block cookies which are set by the Trade Direct Insurance’s website, you can do this through your browser settings. The help function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the Trade Direct Insurance’s website. Visiting our website with your browser settings adjusted to accept cookies tells us that you want to use Trade Direct Insurance’s products and services and that you consent to our use of cookies.
You can find information on the cookies we use on the Trade Direct website below.
Necessary cookies
These help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
| Cookie name | Details | Expiry |
| __cfduid | Used by the content network Cloud Flare to identify trusted internet traffic | 1 year |
| __RequestVerification Token |
Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks | Session |
| AI_buffer |
Used in context with the "AI_sentBuffer" in order to limit the number of data-server-updates (Azure). This synergy also allows the website to detect any duplicate data-server updates |
Session |
| AI_sentBuffer | Used in context with the "AI_sentBuffer" in order to limit the number of data-server-updates (Azure). This synergy also allows the website to detect any duplicate data-server updates | Session |
| ai_session | Preserves user states across page requests | 1 day |
| ARRAffinity | Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times | Session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests | Session |
| sc.Status | Used to display error messages if unexpected errors occur | Session |
| SESS# | Preserves user states across page requests | Session |
Anonymous statistics
These help us to improve our website based on information such as which links are used most frequently or which pages receive the lowest number of visitors. They are not used to monitor an individual’s browsing activity.
| Cookie name | Details | Expiry |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how visitors use the website | 2 years |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to manage the request rate | 1 day |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 1 day |
| ai_user | Used by Microsoft Application Insights software to collect statistical usage and telemetry information.
The cookie stores a unique identifier to recognise users on returning visits over time |
1 year |
Marketing
These cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and
engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers
| Cookie name | Details | Expiry |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
3 months |
| ads/ga-audiences | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites. | Session |
| fr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
3 months |
| i/adsct | Used by Twitter.com to determine the number of visitors accessing the website through Twitter advertisement content. | Session |
| OMGID | Used by OMG Marketing Agency to enable measurement and analysis of marketing campaign performance across the Optimise Advertiser and Publisher networks | 2 months |
| OMGSession | Used by OMG Marketing Agency to collect affiliate campaign measurement data for individual user sessions | 1 day |
| personalization_id | This is set by Twitter and allows the visitor to share content from the website onto their Twitter profile. | 2 years |
| tr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | Session |
| 1P_JAR | This cookie is used to store information about how a user uses the website, recent searches or any other interactions with advertisements before visiting the website. This information is used to provide the users with personalised advertisments. | 4 weeks |
| NID | This cookie is used to profile based on a user's interest and display personalised adverts to them. | 5 months |
Unclassified
These are cookies that do not currently fit into any standard classification.
| Cookie name | Details | Expiry |
| cccot | Used by ccgateway.net | Session |
| ccflag | Identifies the ID of the current CustomerConnect session | 1 day |
| ccsid | Stores the ID of the current CustomerConnect session | 1 day |
| ccsidns | Stores the ID of the current CustomerConnect session | 1 year |
| ccuid | Stores the ID of the current CustomerConnect user ID | 1 year |
| event/record/script-load | This is used to identify when certain events happen on the page | Session |