Cookies
This is the Cookie Policy for Brown & Brown (Europe) Limited, accessible from bbeurope.com/
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
The tables below describe the cookies that we use and why we use them.
Definitions from https://cookiepedia.co.uk and https://www.cookiebot.com/
| NAME | PROVIDER | PURPOSE | EXPIRY | TYPE |
| __RequestVerificationToken | www.grpgroup.co.uk | This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. | After session | Session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | www.grpgroup.co.uk | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Used used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | After session | Session |
| __utmb | Google Analytics | This cookie determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Any activity by a user within the 30 minute life span will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit, but a returning visitor. | 30 minutes | Session |
| __utmc | Google Analytics | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This version is used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. Where it is seen as a Persistent cookie it is therefore likely to be a different technology setting the cookie. | After session | Session |
| __utmt | Google Analytics | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. According to their documentation it is used to throttle the request rate for the service – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes | 10 minutes | Session |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | Google Analytics | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | After session | Session |
| GPS | .youtube.com | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | Session | |
| YSC | .youtube.com | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | |
| __utma | Google Analytics | This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It it used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners. | 2 years | Persistent |
| __utmz | Google Analytics | This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site – so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. | 6 months | Persistent |
| _ga | Google Analytics | 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 sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | 2 years | Persistent |
| _gid | www.grpgroup.co.uk | It is used to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | 1 day | Persistent |
| IDE | .doubleclick.net | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | 1 year | Persistent |
| PREF | .youtube.com | This cookie, which may be set by Google or Doubleclick, may be used by advertising partners to build a profile of interests to show relevant ads on other sites. It works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. | 9 months | Persistent |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. | 6 months | Persistent |
| vuid | .vimeo.com | These cookies are used by the Vimeo video player on websites. | 2 years | Persistent |
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
- From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the Generator of GDPR Cookies Policy and the GDPR Privacy Policy.
However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:
- By visiting this link: www.bbeurope.com/privacy-policy