Cookie Declaration
Our Sites use cookies and/or other similar technologies such as device-IDs, in-App codes, pixel tags and web beacons to collect and store certain information. These typically involve pieces of information or code that a website transfers to or accesses from your computer hard drive or mobile device to store and sometimes track information about you.
Cookies and similar technologies enable you to be remembered when using that computer or device to interact with websites and online services and can be used to manage a range of features and content as well as store searches and present personalised content.
Our Sites use cookies and similar technologies either alone or in combination with each other to create a unique device ID and to distinguish you from other users of our Sites. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Sites and also allows us to improve our Sites.
A number of cookies and similar technologies we use last only for the duration of your web or app session and expire when you close your browser or exit one of our Sites. Others are used to remembering you when you return to one of our Sites and will last for longer. We use the following types of cookies:
Strictly necessary
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Sites and under our terms with you. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Sites or (on other sites) use a shopping cart.
| Cookie | Provider | Why we use it | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | 1 day |
| _gatekeeper_session_token | fresha.com | Used by fresha.com to enhance necessary behaviour | Session |
| _gatekeeper_user_id | fresha.com | Used by fresha.com to enhance necessary behaviour | Session |
| fdid | fresha.com | Stores a user identifier | 1 year |
| freshaLocale | fresha.com | Stores preferred user language in Fresha | Session |
| fsid | fresha.com | Used by fresha.com to enhance necessary behaviour | 1 day |
| CookieConsent | www.fresha.com | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain | 1 year |
| g_state | www.fresha.com | Used by www.fresha.com to enhance necessary behaviour | 180 days |
Analytics
These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Sites when they are using them. This helps us improve the way our Sites work, for example, by ensuring that users are easily finding what they are looking for.
| Cookie | Provider | Why we use it | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| _dd_s | www.fresha.com | Registers the website's speed and performance. This function can be used in context with statistics and load-balancing. | 1 year |
| dd_cookie_test_# | www.fresha.com | Registers data on visitors' website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization. | 1 day |
Targeted advertising
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information subject to your choices and preferences to make our Sites and the advertising displayed on them more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
| Cookie | Provider | Why we use it | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | fresha.com | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | 2 years |
| _ga_# | fresha.com | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | 2 years |
| _gcl_au | fresha.com | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months |
| fbsr_# | www.fresha.com | Used to track the user’s interaction with the website’s Facebook chat-widget. | Session |
Disabling cookies
The effect of disabling cookies depends on which cookies you disable but, in general, the website may not operate properly if all cookies are switched off.
If you want to disable cookies on our website, you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use.
Google Chrome
Select Settings > Advanced
Under Privacy and Security > Content settings
Click Cookies and select the relevant options
Safari
Select Preferences > Privacy
Click on Remove all Website Data
Mozilla Firefox
Choose the Tools menu > Options
Click on the Privacy icon
Select the Cookie menu and select the relevant options
Opera 6.0 and further
Choose Files menu > Preferences
Select Privacy