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The aim is to facilitate your navigation of our websites, optimise it and remember your interests and time spent on the site.

What is a cookie?

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Certain cookies are necessary for use of the site, while others allow us to personalise and optimise content display and retrieve user preferences, while yet others measure the performance and anomalies of the site and secure access to the site.

What is the purpose of a cookie?

When you enter a website using cookies, you may be asked to fill out a form providing personal information like your name, e-mail address, and interests. This information is packaged into a cookie and sent to your browser, which then stores the information for later use. The next time you go to the same website, your browser will send the cookie to the Web server. The message is sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies thus enable the websites to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

What cookies do we use and why?

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. Cookies are used to ensure that we provide you with the best experience on our websites, and allow us to improve them regularly. 

Here are the different types of cookies we use:

  • Strictly necessary cookies - These are cookies that are essential for the operation of our website. These cookies remember information you have entered on forms when you navigate to different pages during a web browser session, identify you as being logged in to our website, etc. 
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Whether a cookie is considered as a 'first' or 'third party' cookie refers to the domain placing the cookie.

  • First-party cookies are cookies set by a website that is being visited by the user at the time (e.g. cookies placed by https://za.virbac.com/).
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Whether a cookie is considered as a 'persistent' or 'session' cookie refers to the duration of the cookie:

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You can find more information about the individual cookies we use, their duration and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

FIRST PARTY COOKIES

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Duration

Purpose

Strictly necessary cookie

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Session

Cookie of securitised session used to keep you connected to our website if you have a user account.

Functionality cookie

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Session

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24 hours

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Google Analytics cookies to track users as they navigate the website and help improve   the website's usability.

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our websites. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.

Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data.

Performance cookies

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30 secondes to

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Session and persistent. One year up to two years

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site.  We use the information to assess how our website is performing and to help us improve the site.  The cookies tracks behaviour but does not collect personal information.

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