The Take Part platform and Application Website use cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience possible. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. Your web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome or Firefox) then sends these cookies back to the website or app each time you visit so that the website or app can remember personalised details or your user preferences. That way they help make your experience of the Take Part platform and Application Website better.
Our cookies help us to:
Cookies come in two forms: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies only last for the time you are browsing the website or application and then they vanish when you close your browser. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device after you close the browser and are activated each time you visit the website or app you got the cookie from.
What Kinds of Cookies Do We Use
We and other third parties use the following types of cookies when you browse the Take Part platform and Application Website:
We do not use cookies to:
You can manage cookies for each of the main browsers by clicking on the relevant link below:
You can also find out more about cookies at www.aboutcookies.org or at https://ico.org.uk/your-data-m....
Below is a full list of the cookies we use:
Name | Domain | Purpose | Expires/Max Age (days) | Category |
__atrfs | s7.addthis.com | This domain is owned by Addthis. AddThis provides web widgets that enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. | 0 | Advertising Cookie |
fbsr_172525162793917 | connect.facebook.net | This domain is owned by Facebook. The main business activity is: Social Media | 2914412 | Advertising Cookie |
GPS | youtube.com | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites. | 0 | Advertising Cookie |
IDE | doubleclick.net | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | 390 | Advertising Cookie |
NID | google.com | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites. | 183 | Advertising Cookie |
test_cookie | doubleclick.net | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | 0 | Advertising Cookie |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | 180 | Advertising Cookie |
xtc | addthis.com | This domain is owned by Addthis. AddThis provides web widgets that enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. | 396 | Advertising Cookie |
YSC | youtube.com | YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites. | 0 | Advertising Cookie |
__utma | thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. | 730 | Performance/Analytics Cookie |
__utmb | thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. | 30 min | Performance/Analytics Cookie |
__utmc | thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. | session | Performance/Analytics Cookie |
__utmt | thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 10 minutes | Performance/Analytics Cookie |
__utmz | thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. | 182 | Performance/Analytics Cookie |
_ga | thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics.This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. | 730 | Performance/Analytics Cookie |
_gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. | 10 min | Performance/Analytics Cookie |
_gid | thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | 1 | Performance/Analytics Cookie |
__cfduid | thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk | Cookie associated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. | 30 | Strictly Necessary Cookie |
OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. | 365 | Strictly Necessary Cookie | |
OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. | 365 | Strictly Necessary Cookie | |
__atuvc | thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk | This domain is owned by Addthis. AddThis provides web widgets that enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. | 396 | Functional Cookie |
__atuvs | thegreatbritishbakeoff.co.uk | This domain is owned by Addthis. AddThis provides web widgets that enable visitors to create and share links to the content across social networks. | 30 min | Functional Cookie |
loc | addthis.com | Stores the visitors geolocation to record location of sharer | 396 | Functional Cookie |
uvc | addthis.com | Tracks how often a user interacts with AddThis | 396 | Functional Cookie |
Last updated February 2021
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