Cygnet Health Care puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site. Find out more about the cookies we use, what they’re for and when they expire.
Cookies that measure website use (statistics)
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how you use Cygnet Health Care. You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can read Google’s overview of data practices within Google Analytics. Our Privacy Notice has more information about the data we collect using Google Analytics cookies and information we receive from other digital services. We use the following Google Analytics cookies on cygnetgroup.com:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga_<unique id> | These help us count how many people visit cygnetgroup.com by tracking if you’ve visited before | 1 year |
| _ga | These help us count how many people visit cygnetgroup.com by tracking if you’ve visited before | 2 years |
Cookies set by other websites (marketing)
Some of our pages may contain content from other sites, like YouTube or Vimeo, which may set their own cookies. These sites are sometimes called ‘third party’ services. This tells us how many people are seeing the content and whether it’s useful.
In addition, if you share a link to an Cygnet Health Care page, the service you share it on (for example, Facebook) may set a cookie. We have no control over cookies set on other websites – you can turn them off, but not through us.
Google Maps
We Google Maps for maps display Read more, and for more information on how Google shares data please read the Google Maps Privacy Statement
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| Google Maps API | Read user IP address. | Expires immediately |
YouTube videos
We use YouTube to show videos on some cygnetgroup.com pages. YouTube sets cookies when you visit one of these pages.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Used by YouTube to count the views of embedded videos and provide bandwidth usage statistics | 6 months |
| GPS | Stores location data of the current user based on geographical GPS location | session |
| YSC | Used by YouTube to prevent spam, fraud and abuse. The YSC cookie ensured that requests to YouTube and Google are being made by the user, and not by other sites. | session |
| PREF | YouTube uses the ‘PREF’ cookie to store information such as your preferred page configuration and playback preferences like explicit autoplay choices, shuffle content, and player size. For YouTube Music, these preferences include volume, repeat mode, and autoplay | 8 months |
Vimeo
We embed videos from our official Vimeo channel. When you press play Vimeo will drop third party cookies to enable the the video to play and to collect analytics data such as how long a viewer has watched the video. These cookies do not track individuals.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| __utm_player | Used by embedded Vimeo videos to monitor analytical data regarding the player performance. | 10 minutes |
| vuid | Used by Vimeo to store a users usage history with relation to Vimeo embedded videos played by the user on this website. | 2 years |
Your location
In the locations area of our website. Google Maps is installed so that the user can successfully get directions to one of our locations. Google Maps will use your IP address in order to determine your current location.
Strictly necessary cookies (functional)
Cookies message
You may see a banner when you visit cygnetgroup.com inviting you to accept cookies or review your settings. We’ll set cookies so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and not to show it again, and also to store your settings.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| CookieNotice | Used by the Civic cookie consent system to store the accepted cookie policy ID. | 90 days |
Google reCAPTCHA cookies
In some limited circumstances, we may use Google reCAPTHCA to help us detect fraudulent activity. We also use Google reCAPTCHA for spam prevention. Some of the data collected by reCAPTCHA cookies is forwarded to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| rc::c | We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software. | session |
| rc::b | We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software. | session |
| rc::a | We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software. | persistent |
Other essential cookies
Essential cookies keep your information secure while you use our website. We do not need to ask permission to use them.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| wpe-auth | Used to store logged in user status | session |
| wp_lang | Used by WordPress to store the users language preferences | session |
| wp_data_user_* | Used by WordPress to provide administrative functionality | various |
| wfwaf-authcookie-* | This cookie is used by the Wordfence firewall to perform a capability check of the current user before WordPress has been loaded. | 1 day |
| wf_loginalerted_* | This cookie is used to notify the Wordfence admin when an administrator logs in from a new device. | persistent |
| wfls-remembered-* | For users who use MFA when logging in, this cookie allows them to log in with the same browser without requiring MFA each time, for up to 30 days. | 1 month |