What are “cookies”?
“Cookies” (also known as HTTP cookies, web cookies or browser cookies) are simply small pieces of data, which are stored as text files on your computer, whenever you visit certain websites. Their typical purpose is to help sites remember particular actions you may have done there in the past. For example, cookies may track when you have logged into a site, visited certain pages or clicked certain buttons.
Websites maintained by Reed Exhibitions Limited (RX) use cookies to improve your user experience. In many cases, cookies are even essential for certain features of a site.
- For example, we use cookies to:
- Remember when you have logged into a site.
- Remember your user preferences, searches and favourites.
- Track your usage of a site, via WebAbacus© and Google Analytics©.
- Track the success of our marketing campaigns. Additionally, RX websites have a small set of carefully selected third-party providers.
- These third-parties use cookies to:
- Target deliver content and advertising tailored to your interests ( Feathr, DoubleClick™, 6-degrees©)
- Enable social media sharing (AddThis©, Facebook©, Twitter©, YouTube©)
- Ensure better service delivery (Ooyala®) You can view a full list of all cookies used by RX websites in the “What cookies do we use and why?” section below.
Are cookies harmful?
Cookies cannot harm you or your computer. They cannot contain viruses, cannot install harmful software and cannot damage your computer in any way. Although RX uses cookies to gather encrypted information to improve your user experience, this information is never personally identifiable. We do not use cookies to store any sensitive information, such as name, address or contact details.
Despite this, if you do wish to disable or remove cookies, please see the “Help” section of your browser or mobile device. Each browser or device handles the management of cookies differently, so you will need to refer to your appropriate “Help” documentation. However, as mentioned, please be aware that cookies are essential for certain features of an RX site to work properly.
Why are we telling you this?
The information provided here on the use of cookies on RX websites demonstrates our compliance with recent cookie legislation. We also want you, as a valued RX website user, to fully understand your privacy, how cookies affect you and to be entirely comfortable with your RX website experience.
We trust that this information eases any concerns you may have had about your privacy and safety with cookies. BY CONTINUING TO USE OUR WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO BE SUBJECT TO THE TERMS OF THIS COOKIES POLICY AND OUR USE OF COOKIES AS DISCLOSED IN THIS POLICY.
Multimedia Content
To give you a richer experience, RX sometimes embeds photos, videos, polls or similar elements hosted on 3rd party online services such as Flickr or Youtube. Therefore, you may be presented with cookies from these services when you visit an RX page containing such content. RX does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party’s website for more information.
Reed Exhibitions Sharing Tools
RX websites also use embedded ‘share’ buttons. These buttons enable users to easily share content with their friends through a number of popular social networks. When you click on one of these buttons, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. RX does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party’s website for more information.
Double Click
RX websites may display online advertisements. To manage these we employ a technology called Double Click. This is owned by Google and measures ad performance by setting cookies. RX does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party’s website for more information.
What cookies do we use and why?
The following shows the full list of platform cookies, used throughout all RX websites.
| Name | Owner | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _at.hist.# | AddThis | Persistent | Bloom filter for detecting whether recommended content URLs have been seen before. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| ads/ga-audiences | AddThis | Session | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor ‘s online behaviour across websites.AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| atuvs | AddThis | Session | Holds the ID of a visit (a group of related views), and a counter for the number of views in the visit so far. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| __atuvc | AddThis | 13 months | User visitor count. AddThis collects information from visitors that does not directly identify an individual and is designed to identify the devices used by visitors. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| bt2 | AddThis | 256 days | User behavioural. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| loc | AddThis | 90 days | Visitor location. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| mus | AddThis | 13 months | Profile store status. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| ssc | AddThis | 13 months | Service share consumption. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| ssh | AddThis | 13 months | Service share history. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| sshs | AddThis | 13 months | Service share history. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| uid | AddThis | 13 months | User ID. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| um | AddThis | 13 months | Partner mapping. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| uvc | AddThis | 13 months | Visitor count. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| vc | AddThis | 13 months | Number of views seen from user. AddThis Privacy Policy Opt Out |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Circdata | Until browser is closed | Used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. Circdata Cookie Policy Manage your cookies |
| _CEFT | Crazy Egg | 1 year | Store page variants assigned to visitors for A/B performance testing.Crazy Egg Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _ceg.s | Crazy Egg | 3 months | Crazy Egg – web analytics – track how visitors interact with pages on a site (performance). Crazy Egg Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _ceg.u | Crazy Egg | 3 months | Crazy Egg – web analytics – track how visitors interact with pages on a site (performance). Crazy Egg Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _ceir, is_returning | Crazy Egg | 5 years | Track whether a visitor has visited the site before. Crazy Egg Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| GoogleAdServingTest | DoubleClick | Session | Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user. DoubleClick Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| IDE | DoubleClick | 1 year | Used to help us monitor the performance of our online advertisements. The cookie contains an ID that is used to identify an ad campaign to which a user was exposed previously; but no other data is stored by DoubleClick in the cookie, and none of the data is personally identifiable. DoubleClick Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| ELOQUA, ELQSTATUS, visitor/v200/svrGP.aspx | Eloqua (Oracle) | 2 years each | Eloqua employs cookies in order for its server to recognize a return visitor as a unique user. The cookies placed by the Eloqua server are readable only by Eloqua, and cookies cannot access, read or modify any other data on a computer. Cookies themselves do not contain any personal information. We do link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. |
| act | Session | Used to help track Analytics through session ID. Facebook Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| c_user | 90 days | Used in conjunction with the xs cookie to authenticate your identity to Facebook. Facebook Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| datr | 2 years | Identifies browsers for purposes of security and site integrity, including for account recovery, and identification of potentially compromised accounts. Facebook Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| fr | 90 days | Facebook’s primary advertising cookie, used to deliver, measure, and improve the relevancy of ads. Facebook Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| m_pixel_ratio | Session | Used to optimize site performance for advertisers. Facebook Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| presence | Session | Used for site features and services, such as enabling a user to like, share and connect with our facebook page from our site. Facebook Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| sb | 2 years | Identifies browser for login authentication purposes. Facebook Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| wd | Session | Used to optimize site performance for advertisers. Facebook Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| xs | 90 days | Used in conjunction with the c_user cookie to authenticate your identity to Facebook. Facebook Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| __cfduid | Feathr | 1 year | Feathr cookie – tracks individual page visits to distinguish between users. This is used for remarketing, through display advertising. Feathr Privacy Policy Manage your cookies |
| f_id | Feathr | 1 year | Feathr cookie – tracks individual page visits to distinguish between users. This is used for remarketing, through display advertising. Feathr Privacy Policy Manage your cookies |
| NID | Persistent | The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. Google Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| __utma | Google Analytics | 2 years | Google Analytics© is an analytics solution, which provides information about your activity on an RX website. This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to an RX website. It is updated with each page view.Google Analytics Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| __utmt | Google Analytics | 10 minutes | Google Analytics cookie – used to throttle the request rate for this service; limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. Google Analytics Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _ga | Google Analytics | 2 years | Google Analytics cookie – used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number to them. Used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data. Google Analytics Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _gat_bu | Google Analytics | 10 minutes | Google Analytics cookie – used to throttle the request rate for this service; limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. Google Analytics Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _gid | Google Analytics | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users. Google Analytics Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _utmb | Google Analytics | 30 minutes | This is another Google Analytics© cookie. It is used to establish a new user session with an RX website. Google Analytics Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _utmc | Google Analytics | None | This is another Google Analytics© cookie. It determines whether or not a new session has been created. Google Analytics Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _utmv | Google Analytics | 2 years | Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. The cookie is updated with every page view. Google Analytics Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _utmz | Google Analytics | 6 months | This Google Analytics© cookie is used to identify how you arrived at the site, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a website search or a campaign, such as an advertisement or email link. It is updated with each page view. Google Analytics Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _dc_gtm_UA-# | Google Tag Manager | Session | Used to control the loading of the Google Analytics script tag. Google Cookie Policy Manage your cookies |
| collect | google-analytics.com | Session | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.Google Cookie Policy Manage your cookies |
| current_map | HotelMap | 1 month | The most recent HotelMap visited, giving you quick access to what you want to see. Your language choice, allowing us to personalise the experience with your default language. HotelMap Cookie PolicyManage your cookies |
| dmms | HotelMap | 1 month | Registration analytics cookies set by HotelMap. The HotelMap registration identifier lets us show you deals that are relevant to your events and location. HotelMap Cookie Policy Manage your cookies |
| hmremote | HotelMap | 2 months | Registration analytics cookies set by HotelMap. The HotelMap registration identifier lets us show you deals that are relevant to your events and location. HotelMap Cookie Policy Manage your cookies |
| ioe-data-id | HotelMap | 8 weeks | Our HotelMap Analytics system uses cookies, log file data and embedded code to gather information regarding visitor activity on our platform, third party websites and other online services. The data gathered is used for analysis and reporting, to help improve the services it provides to its users. HotelMap Cookie Policy Manage your cookies |
| language | HotelMap | 24 hours | The most recent HotelMap visited, giving you quick access to what you want to see. Your language choice, allowing us to personalise the experience with your default language. HotelMap Cookie PolicyManage your cookies |
| offerLanguage | HotelMap | 24 hours | The most recent HotelMap visited, giving you quick access to what you want to see. Your language choice, allowing us to personalise the experience with your default language. HotelMap Cookie PolicyManage your cookies |
| wwhmid | HotelMap | 1 month | HotelMap session identifier providing a seemless experience across our platform. HotelMap Cookie Policy Manage your cookies |
| ApplicationGatewayAffinity | Lead Forensics | Session | Lead Forensics represents and warrants to Customer that its technology, including but not limited to the LF Tracker, does not capture or associate the data captured with any personally identifiable information. It does track and provide only the commercial IP address captured visiting the one of Customer’s Websites, the corresponding domain and contact details of the organization registered to such IP address, and the Website visitor’s operating system and browser type and version. |
| bcookie | 1 year | This cookie is used to track interactions with our Share buttons.LinkedIn Cookie Policy Opt Out | |
| BizoCustomSegments | 6 months | This cookie is used as part of LinkedIn Insights and ad tags to track visitors from our LinkedIn marketing. LinkedIn Cookie Policy Opt Out | |
| BizoData | 6 months | This cookie is used as part of LinkedIn Insights and ad tags to track visitors from our LinkedIn marketing. LinkedIn Cookie Policy Opt Out | |
| BizoID | 6 months | This cookie is used as part of LinkedIn Insights and ad tags to track visitors from our LinkedIn marketing. LinkedIn Cookie Policy Opt Out | |
| BizoUserMatchHistory | 6 months | This cookie is used as part of LinkedIn Insights and ad tags to track visitors from our LinkedIn marketing. LinkedIn Cookie Policy Opt Out | |
| bscookie | 1 year | This cookie is used to track interactions with our Share buttons.LinkedIn Cookie Policy Opt Out | |
| JSESSIONID | Session | One of the LinkedIn cookies that are introduced by the LinkedIn social share button which are used to track which pages the user visits to collect them (cookies). LinkedIn Cookie Policy Opt Out | |
| lFiidrsct | Session | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. LinkedIn Cookie Policy Opt Out | |
| lidc | 1 day | This cookie is used to track interactions with our Share buttons.LinkedIn Cookie Policy Opt Out | |
| .EPiServerLogin | Reed Exhibitions | Session | This cookie is set when you log into an RX website. It remembers that you are logged in, as you navigate through the site’s pages. |
| [HOST]_trackingData | Reed Exhibitions | 14 days | Similar to the campaigns.site.[THIS SITE] cookie, if you have arrived at an RX website via one of our marketing campaigns, this cookie stores the campaign’s information and reports its success to us. |
| campaigns.site.[THIS SITE] | Reed Exhibitions | 1 hour | If you have arrived at an RX website via one of our marketing campaigns, this cookie stores the campaign’s information and reports its success to us. |
| novaState | Reed Exhibitions | Session | This cookie helps an RX website to remember your preferences. For example, if you view a site in a chosen language, every page within your session is then displayed in this language. As another example, if you add an exhibitor to your Show Planner, this is recorded by the cookie so that this exhibitor will be displayed in your planner, the next time you visit. |
| rxuk-recommended-exhibitors | Reed Exhibitions | 6 months | Stores summary information on exhibitors that are recommended to a visitor |
| rxuk-recommended-products | Reed Exhibitions | 6 months | Stores summary information on products that are recommended to a visitor |
| rxuk-recommended-sessions | Reed Exhibitions | 6 months | Stores summary information on conference sessions that are recommended to a visitor |
| showcookiecompliance | Reed Exhibitions | Permanent | This cookie is set when you dismiss the “Privacy and Cookies” message, displayed at the bottom of an RX website. Once set, it ensures you will not be shown this message again. |
| url referrer | Reed Exhibitions | Session | If you have arrived at an RX website via one of our marketing campaigns, this cookie helps us report on the webpage from which you arrived. |
| voviciSurvey_invitationDateTime | Reed Exhibitions | 60 minutes | This is another Vovici© cookie. It ensures that a survey is only served to you, after you have been on the site for more than two minutes. |
| voviciSurvey_noInvitations | Reed Exhibitions | 10 years | Vovici© is the company used by RX to supply website surveys, often to elicit feedback on the websites themselves. This cookie remembers when you have completed a survey and prevents it from being served to you again. |
| webtolead.site.[THIS SITE] | Reed Exhibitions | 1 Year | When you have: Submitted a request to attend, exhibit or advertise at an RX show OR Provided your details in order to access premium content on an RX site. This cookie remembers that you have already done so and ensures that you do not have to re-submit your request or re-enter your details. |
| __ncuid | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| _ga | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| _gid | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| ads_prefs | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| auth_token | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| csrf_same_site_set | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| ct0 | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| dnt | 2 years | These are third party Twitter cookies. These cookies enable users, if they wish, to login to their Twitter account share content from our websites with their friends. These cookies do not allow us access to your accounts or provide us with any confidential information relating to your accounts. These cookies also allow a news feed of tweets to appear on the website. Privacy Policy | |
| eu_cn | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| guest_id | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| kdt | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| mbox | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| personalization_id | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| remember_checked_on | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| tfw_exp | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| twid | 2 years | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our Twitter ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. Twitter Cookie Policy Manage your cookies | |
| _vis_opt_exp_EXPERIMENT_ID_combi | Visual Website Opitmiser | 100 days | This cookie is generated when users reach a particular combination. This cookie ensures that users see the same variation that they saw on their previous visit to the page. VWO Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _vis_opt_exp_EXPERIMENT_ID_goal_GOAL_ID | Visual Website Opitmiser | 100 days | This cookie is generated when a goal is created. VWO Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _vis_opt_test_cookie | Visual Website Opitmiser | 10 years | This is a temporary session cookie generated to detect if the cookies are enabled on the user browser or not. VWO Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _vwo_uuid_v2 | Visual Website Opitmiser | 100 days | This cookie generates a unique ID for every visitor and is used for the report segmentation feature in VWO. It also allows you to view data in a more refined manner. If you have a test running on multiple domains, you will notice test-specific UUID values. VWO Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| _vwo_uuid | Visual Website Optimiser | 100 days | This cookie generates a unique ID for every visitor and is used for the report segmentation feature in VWO. It also allows you to view data in a more refined manner. If you have a test running on multiple domains, you will notice test-specific UUID values. VWO Cookie Policy Opt Out |
| WalkMe cookies – Full cookie list | WalkMe | Various | WalkMe cookies do not collect end-user or website information, only WalkMe related content. Browser storage is used to manage its own state and data. WalkMe Privacy Policy Manage your cookies |
| wfvt_# | Wordfence | Session | Wordfence uses cookies: To uniquely identify visitors shown in Wordfence Live traffic and to identify if a user has visited a unique page you’ve set to allow them to bypass country blocking so that country-blocking does not prevent them from viewing the site. Wordfence Privacy Policy Manage your cookies |
| wordfence_verifiedHuman | Wordfence | Session | Wordfence uses cookies: To uniquely identify visitors shown in Wordfence Live traffic and to identify if a user has visited a unique page you’ve set to allow them to bypass country blocking so that country-blocking does not prevent them from viewing the site. Wordfence Privacy Policy Manage your cookies |
| PHPSESSID | www.123formbuilder.com | Session | Maintains inputted data in case of errors on submit or if page refreshed.123FB Cookie Policy Manage your cookies |