Scope of this policy

  1. Mineralogie Limited (we or us or our) uses cookies when you visit our website, https://themineralogiecompany.com, (the Website) to help customise the Website and improve your experience using the Website.
  2. This policy applies between you, the user of this Website, and us, Mineralogie Limited, the owner and provider of this Website.
  3. When you visit the Website, and before your Website places cookies on your computer, you will be presented with a message bar requesting your consent to set those cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of cookies, you are enabling us to provide a better experience and service. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of these cookies; however, certain features of the Website may not function fully or as intended.
  4. This cookie policy should be read alongside and in addition to our Privacy Policy, which can be found at: https://themineralogiecompany.com/help/legal/privacy-policy/.

What are cookies?

  1. A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer by this Website when you visit certain parts of the Website and/or when you use certain features of the Website.
  2. This Website may place and access certain cookies on your computer. We use these cookies to improve your experience of using the Website and to improve our range of products.
  3. Cookies do not usually contain any information that personally identifies you, the Website user. However, personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information obtained from and stored in cookies.For more information on how such personal information is handled and stored, refer to our Privacy Policy which is available online at: https://themineralogiecompany.com/help/legal/privacy-policy/.

Types of cookies

  1. This Website uses the following cookies:

Type of cookie

Purpose

Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the Website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

Analytical/performance cookies

These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website 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 Website. 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). By using the Website, you agree to our placement of functionality cookies.

Targeting cookies

These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

  1. You can find a list of the cookies that we use in the attached Cookie Schedule.
  2. We have carefully chosen these cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy is protected and respected at all times.

How to control your cookies

  1. You can choose to enable or disable cookies in your internet browser. By default, most internet browsers accept cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please see the help menu in your internet browser.
  2. You can switch off cookies at any time, however, you may lose information that enables you to access the Website more quickly and efficiently.
  3. It is recommended that you ensure that your internet browser is up-to-date and that you consult the help and guidance provided by the developer of your internet browser if you are unsure about adjusting your privacy settings.
  4. For more information generally on cookies, including how to disable them, please refer to aboutcookies.org. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer.

Changes to this policy

  1. Mineralogie Limited reserves the right to change this cookie policy as we may deem necessary from time to time or as may be required by law. Any changes will be immediately posted on the Website and you are deemed to have accepted the terms of the cookie policy on your first use of the Website following the alterations. 

Contact details

  1. The Website is owned byMineralogie Limited incorporated in England and Wales with registered number 13959576 whose registered office is at 128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, England.
  2. You may contact us:
    1. using the contact form on the Website.

This policy was created on 01 July 2023.

COOKIE SCHEDULE

Below is a list of the cookies that we use. We have tried to ensure this is complete and up to date, but if you think that we have missed a cookie or there is any discrepancy, please let us know.

Cookies that we use on the Website:

Strictly necessary cookies

 

We use the following strictly necessary cookies:

 

Name of cookie

Purpose of cookie

ASP.NET_SessionId

 

AWSALBCORS

 

AWSELB

 

AWSALB

 

AWSALBTG

 

AWSALBTGCORS

 

__CookieConsent*

 

General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.

 

This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSELB.

 

AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance.

 

Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimise user experience. AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSELB.

 

AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to encode information about the selected target group.

 

AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie. Load Balancing Cookie: It includes the same information as the original stickiness cookie plus this SameSite attribute.

 

A JavaScript plugin that alerts users of the use of cookies on this website.

 

Functionality cookies

We use the following functionality cookies:

Name of cookie

Purpose of cookie

__cf_bm

 

This is a CloudFoundry cookie

 

 

Analytical/performance cookies

We use the following analytical/performance cookies:

Name of cookie

Purpose of cookie

_ga

 

_gid

 

_gat

 

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. 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

 

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.

 

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes.

 

Targeting cookies

We use the following targeting cookies:

Name of cookie

Purpose of cookie

vuid

 

CONSENT

 

YSC

 

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

 

This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing

 

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

 

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites

 

This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos