Website cookie policy

Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer directory or device when you browse a website. They are designed to carry information related to user journeys on a specific website.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. We use analytical/performance cookies to recognise and count the number of website visitors accessing biwater.com and understand how users navigate from page-to-page. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use for the purposes of monitoring and analytics in the table below:

By accepting our automatic cookie pop-up notification and continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies outlined above.

Cookies used on this website:

Name	Essential / Non-Essential	First/Third Party	Expiry Time	Purpose
_dc_gtm_UA-112189829-1	Non-Essential	First Party	Session	This cookie is associated with sites using Google Tag Manager to load other scripts and code into a page.
ASP.NET_SessionId	Essential	First Party	Session	General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.
SIDCC	Non-Essential	Third party	2 years	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
_ga	Non-Essential	First Party	2 years	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.
_gid	Non-Essential	First Party	24 hours	This cookie name is asssociated 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.
APISID, __Secure-3PSID, __Secure-3PAPISID, SAPISID, __Secure-3PSIDCC	Non-Essential	Third Party	1 year	Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising.
HSID, SID	Non-Essential	Third Party	1 year	Used for security purposes to store digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time which allows Google to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorised parties. This can also be used for targeting purposes to show relevant & personalised ad content
SSID, 1P_JAR, DV	Non-Essential	Third Party	1 year	Used to store information about how you use the website and any advertising that you may have seen before visiting this website
NID	Non-Essential	Third Party	1 year	Used to store preferences in a unique Google ID to remember your 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. These preferences can be used for optimised &/or personalised advertising on Google networks
YSC	Non-Essential	Third Party	Session	This cookie is used by the YouTube video service on websites with embedded YouTube videos.
DSID	Non-Essential	Third Party	1 week	This cookie is used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. Google do this to coordinate the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events.
IDE	Non-Essential	Third Party	Persistent	One of the main advertising cookies on non-Google sites. It is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net. DoubleClick IDE cookies are used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to users across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to users based on previous visits to a website. These cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user.
ANID	Non-Essential	Third Party	2 years	Used by for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising.
PREF	Non-Essential	Third Party	10 years	This cookie is used to save the user's preferences and other information. This includes in particular the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page as well as the decision as to whether the Google SafeSearch filter should be activated or not.
LOGIN_INFO	Non-Essential	Third Party	10 years	Used by YouTube (Google) for storing user preferences and other unspecified purposes.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Non-Essential	Third Party	1 year	This is a cookie that YouTube sets to calculate the user's spectrum. This information is used to determine whether the user should use the player's new or old user interface.
mus, __atuvs, ouid, uid, uvc,	Non-Essential	Third Party	2 years	This is a cookies for AddThis. AddThis is a social sharing tool that allows you to share the site content on social media or by email. They track interactions with the embedded sharing buttons and monitor its usage.
__atuvc	Non-Essential	Third Party	2 years	This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget. This widget is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms.
__cfduid	Essential	First Party	30 days	The “__cfduid” cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.
loc	Non-Essential	Third Party	2 years	This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget. This is a geo-location cookie, so we know approximately where people sharing information are located.
na_id, na_tc,	Non-Essential	Third Party	1 year	This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget. Sharing of pages/links from this website on various social networks.
ssc	Non-Essential	Third Party	1 year	This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget. It is used for social bookmarking.