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This Cookie Notice explains how we use cookies on our website https://hrbopenresearch.org.
It is a declaration of the cookies that are active on our website, the purpose of the cookies and what they track. This Cookie Notice also provides you with information on how to opt out of the cookies being used.
Cookies can be managed using our cookie management tool.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your browser by websites that you visit. They are widely used for a variety of purposes including to make websites work or to remember you from one visit to the next.
First-party cookies are directly stored by the website (or domain) you visit. These cookies allow website owners to collect analytics data, remember language settings, and perform other functions that provide a good user experience. An example of a first party cookie is one that is stored on your browser when you visit a site and login. The next time you visit, the website will detect the cookie in your browser, and you will not need to login again.
Third-party cookies are created by domains that are not the website (or domain) that you are currently on and are placed on the website through a script or tag. A third-party cookie is accessible on your browser to any website that loads the third-party server's code.
First-party cookies are supported by all browsers and can be blocked or deleted by the user. Third-party cookies are supported by all browsers, but many modern browsers block third-party cookies by default.
What types of cookies do we use and why?
We use the following categories of cookies on this website:
| Cookie | Purpose |
| The “cookie” cookie |
This cookie is used to remember a user's choice about cookies on HRB Open Research. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user's preference will be stored in this cookie. We treat the “cookie” cookie as a necessary cookie (see below) and it is refreshed every six months. |
| Strictly necessary cookies |
These cookies are necessary to ensure the website functions properly. You cannot reject these cookies using our cookie management tool. You can control these cookies from your browser settings using the reject all cookies settings. Some functionalities on the website won't work if ‘necessary cookies’ are rejected. We use ‘necessary cookies’ to manage your visit to the website. |
| Preferences cookies | Preferences cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in. |
| Web statistics cookies | These are cookies gather analytics on the usage of our website including distinguishing unique users, remembering the number and time of previous visits, remembering traffic source information and determining the start and end of a session. |
You can adjust your browser settings to decline cookies or alert you when a website is attempting to place a cookie on your computer.
Cookie Details
Further information on the cookies we use on HRB Open Research and how to manage them is set out below.
Cookies can be managed using our cookie management tool.
| Cookie | Purpose | Retention | Host Domain Name |
| Strictly necessary cookies | |||
| JSESSIONID | General-purpose platform-session cookie used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | Session | hrbopenresearch.org |
| __cf_bm | The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. | A few seconds | hrbopenresearch.org |
| AWSELB | This cookie name is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server. | Session | hrbopenresearch.org |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the 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. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one-year lifespan and contains no personal information. | 365 days | hrbopenresearch.org |
| 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. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the user’s browser when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | 365 days | hrbopenresearch.org |
| Performance / Web Statistics Cookies | |||
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | 729 days | hrbopenresearch.org |
| _gid | Associated with Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | 1 day | hrbopenresearch.org |
| _gat | Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics. | A few seconds | hrbopenresearch.org |
| Functional cookies | |||
| fr | Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising. | 89 days | facebook.com |
| F1000-AuthBearer | Stores the platform details, with user session details when logged in | Session | hrbopenresearch.org |
| remember-me | Stores user’s preference to be 'remembered' when returning to site | 60 days | hrbopenresearch.org |
| sticky-email | Suppresses a 'sign up for information form' | 2 years | hrbopenresearch.org |
| version_warning_[article number] | Suppresses 'newer-version' notifications when browsing an article | 1 day | hrbopenresearch.org |
| This domain is owned by Facebook, which is the world's largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies. | session | www.facebook.com | |
| Targeting cookies | |||
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | 89 days | hrbopenresearch.org |
| disqus_unique | This domain is owned by Discus. The main business activity is: Discus provides discussion forum software enabling website owners to plug powerful functionality into their sites. On some forums it also enables site owners to sell space to advertisers with the ability to target interest-based audiences. | 365 days | disqus.com |
| _gcl_au | This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. | 90 days | Google.com |
Managing cookies
HRB Open Research has a cookie management tool that facilitates acceptance and rejection of cookies. The Cookie management tool can be accessed using the “Cookie Management” link in the footer.
Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies on all websites or not. Different browsers have different settings available to you. Below we have provided links to popular browsers on how to access these settings. Generally, your browser will offer the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use (“Third Party Cookies”), or those from specific websites:
- Managing cookies on Firefox
- Managing cookies on Safari
- Managing cookies on Chrome
- Managing cookies on MS Edge
Some third-party cookies drop information into your local storage or browser cache. While we have made efforts to limit the use of cookies that use local storage, it is a good idea to clear your browser cache (sometimes referred to as your browsing history) on a regular basis.
- How to clear the Firefox Cache
- How to clear the Safari Cache
- How to clear the Chrome Cache
- How to clear the Edge Cache
Third party websites
Our website contains links to and from third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own cookie settings, and these are not endorsed by us. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these third-party websites. Please undertake the appropriate due diligence before submitting any information to these websites.
Amendments to this cookie notice
We will post any changes to our Cookie Notice on the website and when doing so will change the effective date at the top of this Cookie Notice.