Cookies Policy

The U by Urbeo website (hosted at www.ubyurbeo.com) uses cookies and other web-based tools to improve browsing experience and enhance our services. This document sets out the cookies and tools the website uses, and why.

For further details about how we process your personal information (whether collected on our website or through the provision of our services) please see our Privacy page.

Our website contains social sharing buttons and links to and from other websites we do not own or control. These websites have their own privacy policies.

What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, and to provide information to the owners of the site.

Necessary Cookies
Ubyurbeo.com uses some cookies to ensure the website operates correctly:

  1. Name: eucookielaw
    - Information collected: true/false in respect of session
    - Purpose:  Used to determine if the user has clicked to hide the cookie notice on the site or not
    - Expiry: 10 years

  2. Name: infobox_
    - Information collected: Cookie banner closed?
    - Purpose: Used to determine if the notice banner for cookies has been closed
    - Expiry: 7 days


Analytics
Analytics cookies are used to track your website experience and collect anonymous statistical information, such as what pages you have visited or how long you have been on the website.

  1. Name: Universal Analytics (Google)
    - Information collected: Anonymous information relating to your visits to www.ubyurbeo.com including the IP address from which you accessed the website, information about your device type, operating system type and browser type, URLs you access on ubyurbeo.com, and timestamps
    - Purpose: Create anonymous statistics about the use of ubyurbeo.com. using: _ga (unique visitor counts); _gid (unique visitors per day); and _gat_UA (throttle the request rate). Full details of the Google Analytics security and privacy principles can be found here.
    - Expiry: _ga: 2 years _gid: 24 hours _gat_UA: 1 minute

Advertising
These cookies provide statistical information and also allow us to facilitate marketing and advertising activities.

For example, an ad on another website may be shown to you based on what you've viewed on our website.

  1. Name: Google Ads
    - Information collected: Contains campaign related information for the user. Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.
    - Purpose:Allows us to target our advertising to you on other websites and measure conversions
    - Expiry: _gac: 90 days _gcl_au: 3 months

  2. Name: Google Ads
    - Information collected: Contains campaign related information for the user. Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.
    - Purpose: Allows us to target our advertising to you on other websites and measure conversions
    - Expiry: _gac: 90 days _gcl_au: 3 months

  3. Name: Facebook
    - Information collected: Tracks visitors across websites
    - Purpose:Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
    - Expiry: _fbp: 1 day

We also use Facebook pixels which helps us track conversions from Facebook ads, and optimise ads for future campaigns.

Managing cookie settings

Analytics and advertising cookies are only used if you have consented to their use by accepting them or turning them on when you first visit our site. You may also access the configuration of your browser to modify and/or block the installation of our website’s cookies, without this preventing access to our content. However, if you disable the cookies some of the functions of the website may not operate correctly.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit:
www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

If you are a Facebook user, you can control your privacy settings here:
www.facebook.com/ads/preferences