The British Pharmacological Society (“we”, “our” or “us”) may sometimes use a device called a cookie to store sign in or other information on your computer. A cookie is a small piece of information stored by your browser or your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are used to make the link between you and the information you have provided to our website (the “site”). You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. If you disable cookies from your browser, you may not be able to access certain features of our site.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site or use a shopping cart.
- Analytical/performance cookies. Allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our 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 our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
The table below lists the individual cookies we use and why:
| Cookie |
Name |
Expiration |
Purpose |
| Browser Session Cookie |
ASP.NET_SessionId
CMSCookieLevel
CMSPreferredCulture
CMSPreferredUICulture |
1 year
1 year
1 year
1 year
|
These cookies are set after a user visits the site to display the preferred content culture and store the user session ID for security reasons. |
| My Society |
.ASPXFORMSTUH |
3 hours |
This authentication cookie keeps users signed into the site, and allows the site to verify and retrieve their details from the British Pharmacological Society’s database. This does not contain any personal information. |
| AddThis |
__atuvc
__atuvs |
30 minutes |
These cookies store up-to-date page share counts for the AddThis page sharing widget. |
| Google Analytics |
_ga
_gat
|
2 years
10 minutes |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. |
Cookies for Social Media
We have a Twitter account (https://twitter.com/BritPharmSoc) and a Facebook page (www.facebook.com/britpharmsoc). Both Twitter and Facebook use cookie technology. For more information, please see the Twitter Privacy Policy and Facebook Privacy Policy.
Third Party Cookies
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 we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
Find out more about cookies and how to manage your settings
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