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What are Cookies?

Cookies are tiny text files that are placed on your computer, mobile phone, or other device, and help provide you with the best experience we can. They are used by most websites to help personalise your web experience. Some features will not function if you do not allow cookies.

Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you'd expect
• Save you having to login every time you visit the site
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
• Continuously improve our website for you

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can remove them, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

For more information about cookies, please see allaboutcookies.org.

Which cookies do we use and why?

1. Strictly necessary

Strictly necessary cookies are essential in helping you to move around our websites and use their features, such as accessing secure areas of the website and shopping. These cookies don't gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the internet.

We use these Strictly Necessary cookies to:

• Remember things like information you've entered on order forms when you navigate to different pages in a single web browser session
• Remember the goods and services you ordered when you get to the checkout page
• Identifying you as being signed in and keeping you logged in throughout your visit so that you don't need to sign in each and every time you visit.

Using our site indicates that you accept the use of 'Strictly Necessary' cookies.

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.

Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as 'Strictly Necessary'

Host	Cookie name	Purpose
www.smartcitiesworld.net	JSESSIONID	To keep track of user sessions on the site and identify your user session.
	CFIDE
	CFTOKEN
www.smartcitiesworld.net	AFFINO_x	If we are hosting your sites this option is ticked. Each user profile has a number replacing x
	AFFINOLIVE_x

2. Functional

These cookies allow websites and applications to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They do not gather any information about you that could be used for selling advertising or remembering where you've been on the internet, but do help with serving advertising.

Some examples of how we do this include:

• Remembering your preferences and settings.
• Show you when you're logged in to the website
• Supporting social media components, like Facebook or Twitter (where a website uses a plugin from these third party platforms, for example).
• Remembering if you've been to the site before so that messages intended for first-time users are not displayed to you.
• Remembering your search settings
• Making our shopping basket and checkout work
• Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions

Using our site indicates that you accept the use of 'Functional' cookies.

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.

Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as 'Functional'.

Host	Cookie name	Purpose
www.smartcitiesworld.net	RVP	As a guest user we store the last 10 products you viewed
	accounts_tab_active	Store the state of the Affino accounts tab (open or closed)
	contacts_tab_active	Store the state of the Affino contacts tab (open or closed)
	Affino_Control	Stores the layout of the Affino control panel (left or right)
	Affino_BrowserMode	Set your browser to iPad and you'll be able to see what that user sees
	LiveEditSwitch	Affino functionality remembers your settings if live edit switch is on/off
	Affino_ControlWideScreen	Affino functionality remembers your settings if you selected this option
	NewID	Cross domain check
	Affino_CartID	Holds the users shopping cart ID
	Affino_CookiePolicy	Stores the Cookie Policy status

3. Performance (analytical)

'Performance' cookies collect information about how you use our website e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies don't collect any information that could identify you - all the information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve how our website works.

Some examples of how we do this include:

• Provide statistics on how our website is used
• See how effective our adverts are (we don't use this information to target adverts to you when you visit other websites)
• Provide feedback to partners that one of our visitors also visited their website. This can include details of any products bought. This lets our partners improve their website, but we don't allow our partners to reuse this information for further advertising
• Help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur

Using our site indicates that you accept the use of 'Performance' cookies.

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we cannot guarantee how our site will perform for you.

Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as 'Performance'.

Host	Cookie name	Purpose
smartcitiesworld.net	km_ai	Is used on affino.com but is not in standard Affino. If your site uses Kissmetrics you'll need to include these.
	km_lv
	km_ni
	km_uq
	km_vs
	kvcd
smartcitiesworld.net	__utma	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site (including Google Maps). 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. Google Privacy policy
	__utmb
	__utmc
	__utmv
	__utmx
	__utmz
google.co.uk	NID
	PREF
	SNID
www.smartcitiesworld.net	PRECACHE	Serve a cached version of the website to users to improve the performance of the site
	PRECACHECHECK

4. Target or Advertising (3rd party)

'Targeting' cookies are linked to services provided by third parties, such as 'Like' buttons and 'Share' buttons. The third party provides these services in return for recognising that you have visited our website.

An example of this includes:

• Link to social networks like Facebook, who may subsequently use information about your visit to target advertising to you on other websites
• We use third party services provided by third parties like YouTube or Vimeo who may subsequently use information about your visit to target advertising to you on other websites

You can control whether or not these cookies are used, but preventing them may stop us from offering you some services. All of these cookies are managed by third parties, and you may alternatively use the third parties' own tools to prevent these cookies.

Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as 'Targeting'.

Host	Cookie name	Purpose
facebook.com	__utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmv, __utmz	These are used for facebook integration. Some Affino sites use single sign on (SSO). This service provides users with the option to sign in using their Facebook login. If they chose to do so Facebook cookies are set. Further information on Facebook's Data Use policy is available at www.facebook.com/about/privacy
player.vimeo.com	c_user, datr, act, locale, lu, p, presence, s, xs	When users view a web page on your site with an embedded Vimeo video, Vimeo creates these cookies
av.vimeo.com	aka_debug
www.linkedin.com	X-LI-IDC	These are used for LinkedIn integration. Some Affino sites use single sign on (SSO). This service provides users with the option sign in using their LinkedIn login. If they chose to do so LinkedIn cookies are set.
	cdn.lmodules.com
	__utmz
	X-LI-IDC
	JSESSIONID
	leo_auth_token
	NSC_MC_QH_MFP
	NSC_MC_WT_DTQ_IUUQ
	PersistenceCookie
	visit
	X-LI-IDC
linkedin.com	__qca, __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmv, __utmz, _lipt, bcookie, lang, lw
doubleclick.net	id	This is a Google tracking cookie for advertising purposes
soundcloud.com	__utma	Soundcloud can be used to share music and audio files. They use google analytics to capture visitor information
	__utmb
	__utmc
	__utmz
youtube.com	PREF	When you view a web page on your site with an embedded YouTube video, YouTube creates these cookies
	use_hitbox
	PRVISITOR_INFO1_LIVEEF
imrworldwide.com	IMRID	These are cookies from an internet media and market research company Red Sheriff
	V5
quantserve.com	mc	This is an advertising cookie from Qantcast
scorecardresearch.com	UID	These are market research cookies
	UIDR