Cookies in use on this website

Like almost all websites, Vetsonline uses cookies to help provide you with the best online experience possible. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you browse websites.

Our cookies help us:

Make our website work as you'd expect
Save you from having to login every time you visit the site
Remember your settings during and between visits
Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising)
Improve the speed/security of the site
Allow you to share pages with social networks (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
Continuously improve our website for you
Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately allowing us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We DO NOT use cookies to:

Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
Pay sales commissions

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below:

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on the software you use to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of www.vetsonline.com, to mean that you are fine with this.

Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below – however, please be aware that doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as intended, limiting your user experience.

More about our Cookies

WEBSITE FUNCTION COOKIES

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

Determining if you are logged in or not
Remembering your search settings
Allowing you to add comments to our site
Remembering if we have already asked you certain questions (e.g. you declined to use our app or take our survey)

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site or by disabling ALL cookies in your browser settings. They are:

NAME	PURPOSE
allow_cookies	Determines whether the user accepts cookies or not.
PHPSESSID	This is a session cookie. It does not collect any information from the your computer, it is used to recognise you when you move from page to page and remember any information you have previously entered (search requests, shopping baskets, etc). Session cookies are temporary files and are erased when you close your browser.
ns_cookietest ns_session	Checks whether the browser allows cookies to be set.
AUTOLOG3R	Determines whether you have chosen to be automatically logged in when you visit Vetsonline.
SONDAGE.xxx	Used for poll management. One cookie is set for each poll to remember whether you have participated. The 'xxx' is the poll number.
NSC_Wt_023S_...	Cookies with this prefix are set by the "load balancer" - a system that distributes website traffic across multiple servers to ensure optimum efficiency and avoid overload.

Social Website Cookies

So you can easily "Like" or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site. Cookies are set by:

AddThis - Privacy Policy (AddThis provide websites with multiple sharing buttons in one neat package)
Facebook - Privacy Policy
Twitter - Privacy Policy
YouTube - Privacy Policy (owned by Google)

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website.

These analytics programs also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before, helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

We use:

Google Analytics - Privacy Policy

Advertising Cookies

Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us, advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies.

You can learn more about online advertising at www.youronlinechoices.com. You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices, although we would prefer that you didn't as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free.

It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts, just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer.

Among others, our advertisers use:

Commission Junction - Privacy Policy
DoubleClick - Privacy Policy (owned by Google)
Facilitate Digital - Privacy Policy
Mediaplex - Privacy Statement

Banner Adverts

We fund our site by showing adverts as you browse our site. These adverts are usually managed by a partner specialising in providing adverts for multiple sites. Invariably these partners place cookies to collect anonymous data about the websites you visits so they can personalise the adverts to you, ensure that you don't see the same adverts too frequently and ultimately report to advertisers on which adverts are working.

Our main partner is:

Smart AdServer - Privacy Policy

TURNING COOKIES OFF

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (learn how to do this in Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of Vetsonline and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.

The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.

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