Website Cookie Policy
1. Definition
This is our cookies policy. If you use our website, your acceptance
of this policy will be given by your continued use. If you do not agree
with this policy please stop using our website immediately.
Use of our website is also subject to our website terms of use: https://www.giantdigital.co.uk/terms-conditions and privacy policy: https://www.giantdigital.co.uk/privacy-policy.
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit our
website and are used to make the users experience more efficient. We
are able to store cookies on your computer where they are necessary for
the operation of the site however, for non-essential cookies we need
your permission.
2. Who We Are
https://www.giantdigital.co.uk is operated by Giant Digital, a UK Limited company registered in England under company number 07603734.
Some important details about us:
Our registered office and trading office is at: 7 Bell Yard, London WC2A 2JR
Our email address is: info@giantdigital.co.uk
Our phone number is: 0208 152 4572
3. How we use Cookies
We use cookies to recognise you and your preferences, improve our
site’s performance and collect analytical information for ourselves and
our business partners. We track users on our site to identify which
parts of our website have been visited and to allow us to make our site
more relevant to our users. Without the knowledge gained we would not be
able to provide certain functionality on our website.
4. "Session" and "Persistent" Cookies
"Session cookies" allow us to track your actions during a single
browsing session, but they do not remain on your device afterwards.
"Persistent cookies" remain on your device between sessions. We use
them to authenticate you and to remember your preferences. We can also
use them to balance the load on our servers and improve your experience
on our website.
Session and persistent cookies can be either first or third party
cookies. A first-party cookie is set by the website being visited; a
third-party cookie is set by a different website. Both types of cookie
may be used by us or our business partners.
Cookies used on the site are categorised and below you can read about
each category and understand more about which can be disabled.
When categories that have been previously allowed are disabled, all
cookies assigned to that category will be removed from your browser.
Additionally, you can see a list of cookies assigned to each category
and detailed information in the cookie declaration.
5. Cookie Categories
All our cookies are categorised by the role they fulfil on our website:
a. Strictly Necessary: these are essential to enable
you to move around our website and use features such as secure
services. The website won't function properly without these cookies and
they are enabled by default and cannot be disabled.
b. Functionality: allow the website to remember your
choices and to personalise certain features. These cookies may be
anonymised and cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
c. Analytical: collect information as to how users
use the website. These analytics cookies don’t collect information that
identifies a visitor. The information collected is aggregated and used
to improve our website.
d. Marketing: used to track visitors across websites to allow publishers to display relevant and engaging advertisements.
6. Cookie Declaration
Necessary cookies
| Name | Hostname | Path | Expiry |
| django_language | / | 365 days | |
| csrftoken | / | 364 days | |
| Used by many systems for Cross Site Forgery protection. | |||
| sessionId | / | 14 days | |
| cookiehub | .giantdigital.co.uk | / | 365 days |
| Used by CookieHub to store information about whether visitors have given or declined the use of cookie categories used on the site. | |||
Functionality & Preferences
| Name | Hostname | Path | Expiry |
| lang | .ads.linkedin.com | / | Session (3rd party) |
| Session-based cookie that remembers the user's selected language version of a website. | |||
| lidc | .linkedin.com | / | 1 day (3rd party) |
| Used by LinkedIn for routing. | |||
| lang | .linkedin.com | / | Session (3rd Party) |
| Session-based cookie that remembers the user's selected language version of a website. | |||
| li_gc | .linkedin.com | / | 180 days (3rd party) |
| Used by LinkedIn to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | |||
Analytical cookies
| Name | Hostname | Path | Expiry |
| _gid | .giantdigital.co.uk | / | 1 day |
| Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | |||
| _gat_* | .giantdigital.co.uk | / | 1 hour |
| Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate (limit the collection of data on high traffic sites) | |||
| _ga_* | .giantdigital.co.uk | / | 730 days |
| Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics 4 to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | |||
| bcookie | .linkedin.com | / | 365 days (3rd party) |
| This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. | |||
Marketing cookies
| Name | Hostname | Path | Expiry |
| _gcl_au | .giantdigital.co.uk | / | 90 days |
| Used by Google AdSense to understand user interaction with the website by generating analytical data. | |||
| UserMatchHistory | .linkedin.com | / | 30 days (3rd party) |
| Contains a unique identifier used by LinkedIn to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | |||
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | .linkedin.com | / | 30 days (3rd party) |
| Used by LinkedIn to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | |||
| bscookie | / | 365 days (3rd party) | |
| Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | |||
7.Disclaimer
If at any time you wish to disable our cookies, you may do so through
the settings on your browser or by using our onsite cookie manager,
CookieHub. However, if you choose to disable or delete our cookies, that
will prevent certain important areas and features of our service from
functioning properly. You can find additional information at aboutcookies.org.
Notwithstanding, the audit undertaken regarding our cookies, it is
possible we may have missed one from our list above. If you happen to
find one that is being set on our site, please let us know.
8. Applicable Law
We will use our best efforts to negotiate in good faith and settle
any dispute that may arise out of or relating to this Agreement or any
breach of it.
If any such dispute cannot be settled amicably through ordinary
negotiations between the Parties, or either or both is or are unwilling
to engage in this process, either Party may propose to the other in
writing that structured negotiations be entered into with the assistance
of a fully accredited mediator before resorting to litigation.
If the Parties are unable to agree upon a mediator, or if the
mediator agreed upon is unable or unwilling to act and an alternative
mediator cannot be agreed, any party may within 14 days of the date of
knowledge of either event apply to Giant Digital’s legal representative
to appoint a mediator.
Within 14 days of the appointment of the mediator (either by mutual
agreement of the Parties or following Giant Digital’s legal
representative’s own procedure), the Parties will meet with the mediator
to agree the procedure to be adopted for the mediation, unless
otherwise agreed between the parties and the mediator.
All negotiations connected with the relevant dispute(s) will be
conducted in confidence and without prejudice to the rights of the
Parties in any further proceedings.
If the Parties agree on a resolution of the dispute at mediation, the
agreement shall be reduced to writing and, once signed by the duly
authorised representatives of both Parties, shall be final and binding
on them.
If the Parties fail to resolve the dispute(s) within 60 days (or such
longer term as may be agreed between the Parties) of the mediator being
appointed, or if either Party withdraws from the mediation procedure,
then either Party may exercise any right to seek a remedy through
arbitration by an arbitrator to be appointed by Giant Digital’s legal
representative.
Any dispute shall not affect the Parties' ongoing obligations under the Agreement.
The English courts have the only right to hear claims related to our site, and all disputes are governed by English law.