INFORMATION ABOUT GETT’S USE OF COOKIES
Gett’s website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the website, www.gett.com/uk (the “Site”). This helps Gett to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Site and also allows Gett to improve the Site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that Gett stores on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Gett uses the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Site or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow Gett to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Site when they are using it. This helps Gett to improve the way the Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to the Site. This enables Gett to personalise its content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This information is usually used to make the website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to the user’s interests
You can find more information about the individual cookies Gett uses and the purposes for which it uses them in the table below:
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | More information |
| wordpress_geo_redirect_once | Persistent | This cookie is used to redirect visitors to certain parts of the Site dependent on the visitor’s country. | 1 Year |
| PHPSESSID | Session | This cookie is used to identify your unique session on the website | End of browser session |
| SESS | Session | This cookie is used to ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered. | End of browser session |
Gett also uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of the Site. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to the Site is used to create reports about the use of the Site. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
The Google cookies used on the Site are as follows:
| Cookie name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
| __utma | Persistent | This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to the Site. | 2 years |
| __utmb | Session | This cookie works with __utmc to calculate the average length of time users spend on the Site. | 30 minutes |
| __utmc | Session | This cookie works with __utmb to calculate the average length of time users spend on the Site. | At end of session |
| __utmz | Persistent | This cookie records information about how the page was reached (for example via a search engine result or a direct link). | 6 months |
| _utmt | Session | This cookie is used to throttle the request rate for the service – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites | 10 minutes |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which Gett has no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the Site.