Cookies
Most websites you visit will use cookies to help customise your experience. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
New legislation that came into effect on the 26th May 2012 requires web sites to obtain consent or disclose its use of cookies. It has been designed to protect online privacy by making web site visitors aware of the information that is being collected by web sites. This page on the VPhase web site indicates the changes that the company has made to comply with the legislation. VPhase declares its cookie use to every web visitor at least once and makes this cookie page permanently available within the site.
For further reading on cookies you can visit AboutCookies.org
Use of cookies on our website
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
| Name |
Format |
Expires |
Reason |
| __atuvc |
Alphanumeric String |
1 year |
Add This Social |
| __utma |
Numeric String |
2 years |
Google Analytics |
| __utmb |
Numeric String |
30 minutes |
Google Analytics |
| __utmc |
Alphanumeric String |
Session |
Google Analytics |
| __utmv |
Alphanumeric String |
2 years |
Google Analytics |
| __utmz |
Alphanumeric String |
6 months |
Google Analytics |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
Alphanumeric String |
Session |
ASP.Net session |
| ckmsg |
Numeric String |
6 months |
Cookie message to user |
Third party cookies
We sometimes embed video content and photos from websites such as YouTube and flickr. Pages with this embedded content may present cookies from these websites. Similarly, when you use one of the share buttons on our website, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these cookies.
How to manage cookies
If you wish to restrict, block or delete cookies from our website - or any other website - you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different so check the 'Help' menu of your particular browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
Please bear in mind that if you do this, certain personalised features of this website cannot be provided to you.