Our Website
www.instituteofroofing.org, is operated by the Institute of Roofing.
Where we use “we”, “our” or “us” in this notice, we mean the Institute of Roofing unless we say otherwise.
Where we use “our site” in this notice, we mean www.instituteofroofing.org.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit our site. Our site recognises those cookies on each subsequent visit, enabling our site to recognise you.
Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies (and details of how to do this are signposted at the end of this notice), our site will set cookies as soon as you visit our site.
How And Why We Use Cookies
We use cookies on our site to:
The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain information from which you can easily be identified, such as your name. However, we do collect some personal data relating to your computer or other electronic device, such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information.
In most cases we will need your consent in order to use cookies on our site. The exception to this is where the cookie is essential in order for us to provide you with a service you have requested.
When you open our site in your browser a cookie pop up message will be displayed and this will ask you for your consent for non-essential cookies to be placed on your device. If you do not click to accept cookies but you continue to use our site without disabling cookies, we will consider this to mean that you accept our use of these non-essential cookies. A record of your acceptance will be stored in a functional cookie for 30 days, after which the cookie will expire and the cookie pop up message will be displayed again.
You may withdraw your consent or acceptance at any time by following the instructions for disabling cookies, signposted at the end of this Cookie Notice.
We use the following cookies on our site:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of our site. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided.
| Cookie Name | What is the purpose of this Cookie? | How long this Cookie lasts? |
| _cfduid | Used by Cloudflare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address, and apply security setting on a per-client basis. This is a HTTP type cookie that expires after 1 year. | 30 days |
| Is_eu | Session tracking cookie | session |
| _cfduid | Used by Cloudflare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. This is a HTTP type cookie that expires after 1 year | 29 days |
| JSESSIONID | Used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server in Java™️ 2 Platform Enterprise Edition web applications. It is a necessary cookie that expires at the end of a session | session |
Essential Third Party Cookies
Third parties’ cookies are used to provide important functionality to our site, as well as collecting anonymous user data for analysis.
| Cookie Name | What is the purpose of this Cookie? | How long this Cookie lasts? |
| APISID, HSID, NID, PREF, SAPISID, SID, SSID | These cookies are used by Google reCAPTCHA to determine and verify that the user is not a robot. Google’’s Privacy Policy can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy | Up to 2 years |
Functional Cookies
These non-essential cookies allow our site to remember choices you make. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites.
| Cookie Name | What is the purpose of this Cookie? | How long this Cookie lasts? |
| EU_COOKIE_LAW_CONSENT | This cookie is used to remember a user’s acceptance of the use of cookies on our site as explained above. You will see a pop-up cookies message when you first visit our site. We’ll store a cookie so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and knows not to show it again. This expires after 30 days when you will see a pop-up cookie message again to remind you of this Cookie Notice and to ask you to consent again to our use of non-essential cookies. | 30 days |
| cf:vistitor_id | Used to track unique user ID | 11 months 30 days |
Third Party Performance Cookies
These non-essential cookies collect information about how visitors use our site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
| Cookie Name | What is the purpose of this Cookie? | How long this Cookie lasts? |
| _ga, | We use Google analytics to collect information about how you use our site. | 2 years, |
| _gat, | We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to our site, where visitors have come to our site from and the pages they visited. | 1 minute, |
| _gid] | We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data. Google analytics stores information about: | 24 hours |
| MUID | Sets a unique user ID for tracking how the user uses the site. Persistent cookie that is saved for 3 years. Provided by Bing.com | 1 year 24 days |
Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests
| Cookie Name | What is the purpose of this Cookie? | How long this Cookie lasts? |
| _fbp | Facebook tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalised advertising | 2 months 29 days |
Where To Find More Information
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If you have any further questions, comments or requests regarding our cookies notice or how we use cookies on our site, please contact us at admin@instituteofroofing.org.
Institute of Roofing,
Roofing House,
31 Worship Street,
London
EC2A 2DX
Phone: 020 7448 3858
Email: admin@instituteofroofing.org
