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On this website https://www.briancurrie.co.uk we use cookies to provide a better user experience and also track user activity so we can improve our services in future. All the information which these cookies collect is anonymous and are only used to improve the experience on this website.
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to a web browser by a website a user visits. A cookie file stored in a web browser and allows the service or a third-party to recognize a user anonymously and make the users next visit easier and the service more useful.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies.
When a user accesses this website, it may place a number of cookies files in the users web browser.
This website uses cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the service, to provide analytics, to store user preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioural advertising.
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the service, deliver advertisements on and through the service, and so on.
NetDirector® Auto V10 cookies
| Cookie Name | Categorisation | Description | Duration | 1st/3rd Party |
| dataLayer.visitor.isReturning | Analytics | Cookie to provide page view details to a GTM data layer where added. By default the cookie is set to 'True'. | Persistent | First Party |
| gf-session-id | Required | When users are navigating throughout the site this is used to determine a consistent session. E.g a user creates a transaction without being logged in and then the user logs in we can use the consistent session id to link the user to the transaction. This is set in local storage | Session | First Party |
| isSessionUsed | Functional | To determine if a session is used on the frontend. For example, a website page that requires a login screen because it's for internal use only. | Session | First Party |
| lastViewedVehicles_* | Required | Allows the breadcrumbs to work within the details pages | Session | First Party |
| PHPSESSID | Required | Preserves user session state across page requests. | Session | First Party |
| postcode | Functional | Saves the postcode used within vehicle search and dealer locator search so that it is populated for example do a postcode search on dealer locator page, go to used cars and postcode is populated. | Session | First Party |
| recentLocationHash | Functional | Allows the enquiry form where multiple locations may be present to populate the most recently used location for example on site enquiry forms. | Session | First Party |
| recentVehicles_* | Required | Stores the reference of the most recent vehicle viewed. | Session | First Party |
| searchPath_* | Functional | Welcome back module - Shows the continue search button within Welcome back by storing the search parameters | Persistent | First Party |
| searchQuery_* | Required | Enables site breadcrumbs to work with New Car Offers, vehicle search listings and details pages, and ensures that the lazy load search feature works correctly | Session | First Party |
| searchTags_* | Required | Enables the search pills to be displayed from the search selection | Session | First Party |
| sessionStorageTest | Required | Determines if sessionStorage is available | Session | First Party |
| storageSettings | Required | Determine which category of cookies can be stored locally | Persistent | First Party |
| trackingIpFilter | Required | Stores the user IP address when visiting the website for cyber security purposes in the event a user uses the website maliciously. | 2 Years | First Party |
| vehicleId | Required | Is used by the AJAX used vehicles listing to hold the last clicked vehicle, so that it can be scrolled to once the user revisits the listing | Session | First Party |
| vehicleIndex | Required | Works with vehicleQuery cookie to store the vehicle index of the vehicle in relation to the previous/next vehicle | Session | First Party |
| vehicleQuery | Required | Previous and next vehicle buttons - run search and go to vehicle details - buttons that allow you to go to previous and next within search results | Session | First Party |
| wasCtwPopupSeen | Required | To determine if the cookie banner has been engaged with and consent obtained | 6 months | First Party |
| wbClosed_* | Required | Determines if Welcome Back module has been closed | Session | First Party |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Required | Security cookie to prevent Cross site Forgery | Session | First Party |
| CONSENT | Analytics | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded youtube-videos and registers anonymous statistical data. | 2 Years | youtube.com |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Functional | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 6 months | youtube.com |
| YSC | Functional | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | youtube.com |
| yt-player-bandwidth | Functional | For YouTube to provide bandwidth estimations. | Session | youtube.com |
| yt-player-headers-readable | Functional | Used to determine the optimal YouTube video quality based on the visitor's device and network settings. | Session | youtube.com |
| yt.innertube::nextId | Analytics | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | youtube.com |
| yt.innertube::requests | Analytics | This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | youtube.com |
Note: Cookies used for YouTube will only be presented if there is YouTube videos added to the website.
NetDirector® Online Payments Cookies
| Cookie Name | Categorisation | Description | Duration | 1st/3rd Party |
| auth-token | Required | Required by ecommerce module for session security | Session | First Party |
| currentTransaction | Required | A session storage variable that allows us to scope our API requests in a browser tab (so you can have two different concurrent transactions in different tabs). Functionally, we use this variable when the user logs in to allow us to transition an anonymous transaction onto a users account. | Session | First Party |
| ovs_criteria_* | Functional | Stores the budget search parameters so that they can be re-used when a user comes back and performs another search. | Session | First Party |
| ovs-entry-point | Required | Stores the entry page from the website into the ecommerce journey in the event of a network failure | Session | First Party |
| ovs-previous-step | Required | Stores the website previous page OR ecommerce previous step in the event of network failure | Session | First Party |
| gf-auth0-access-token | Required | Used to get user detail from auth0 and to generate an Auth token. This is set in session storage. | Session | First Party |
| gf-auth0-id-token | Required | Used to generate an Auth token. This is set in session storage. | Session | First Party |
| gf-jwt-token | Required | The internal auth token. This is stored in local storage so the user does not have to log in / get auth status from Auth0 on each page load which improves performance of the site. | Session | First Party |
| touchPayment | Required | Required by the Online Payment technology | Session | First Party |
NetDirector® BI Cookies
| Cookie Name | Categorisation | Description | Duration | 1st/3rd Party |
| _sp_id.* | Analytics | It is used to persist information about a user's activity on the domain between sessions to provide Business Intelligence for the software provider. It contains the following information: - An ID for the user based on a hash of various browser attributes - How many times the user has visited the domain - The timestamp of the user's first visit - The timestamp of the current visit - The timestamp of the last visit - The ID of the current session | Persistent | First Party |
| _sp_ses.* | Analytics | The purpose of this cookie is to differentiate between different visits to provide Business Intelligence for the website provider. | Persistent | First Party |
| enquiriesSent_* | Analytics | Captures the type of enquiries sent in a session. No PII is collected, only the enquiry type | Session | First Party |
| nd | Analytics | SnowPlow tracking - Events and Contexts | Session | First Party |
| session_counter_* | Analytics | Determines if ReturningUsers context should be sent (ie. if counter > 1 then send ReturningUsers context) | Persistent | First Party |
| session_was_counted_* | Analytics | Ensures current session is counted only once | Session | First Party |
| snowplowOutQueue_ndanalytics_nd_post2 | Analytics | Snowplow Analytics Used to store a cache of unsent events. This is used to reduce the chance of events to be lost due to page navigation and events not being set to the collector before the navigation event occurs. Where GET requests are used, this key will end in _get rather than _post2. | Session | First Party |
| snowplowOutQueue_ndanalytics_nd_post2.expires | Analytics | Snowplow Analytics Used to match the concept of cookie expiry within Local Storage. This ensures a consistent behaviour between cookie and local storage. Where GET requests are used, this key will end in _get rather than _post2. | Session | First Party |
| sp_landing_page | Analytics | Stores the landing page URL | 1 day | First Party |
| sp_referer | Analytics | Stores the host/referrer | Session | First Party |
| sp_referer_category | Analytics | Stores the referer/channel category | Session | First Party |
| sp_referrer_url | Analytics | Stores the referrer URL | Session | First Party |
Google Analytics cookies
| __utm.gif | Analytics | Google Analytics Tracking Pixel that logs details about the visitor's browser and computer. | Session | google-analytics.com |
| __utma | Analytics | Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. | Persistent | First Part |
| __utmb | Analytics | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytic s to calculate the duration of a website visit. | Session | First Part |
| __utmc | Analytics | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. | 30 mins | First Part |
| __utmt | Analytics | Stores the number of requests to the server. Used by Google Analytics. | 10 mins | First Part |
| __utmv | Analytics | Google Analytics __utmv Cookie lasts "forever". It is a persistant cookie. It is used for segmentation, data experimentation and the __utmv works hand in hand with the __utmz cookie to improve cookie targeting capabilities. | Persistent | First Part |
| __utmz | Analytics | Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics. | 6 months | First Part |
| _ga | Analytics | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | 2 years | First Part |
| _gat_* | Analytics | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. Used by Google Analytics. | 1 min | First Part |
| _gid | Analytics | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day | First Part |
| collect | Analytics | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitors device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels | Session | google-analytics.com |
| uid | Analytics | This cookie provides a uniquely assigned, machine-generated user ID and gathers data about activity on the website. This data is used by Google Analytics for analysis and reporting. | Session | First Party |
Digital Retailing v2 cookies
| Cookie Name | Categorisation | Description | Duration | 1st/3rd Party |
| ndfe-payment-state | Required | Stores the status of an online payment incase the users refreshes their browser so they don’t get charged twice. This cookie is only applicable if using checkout.com payment gateway. | Session | First Party |
Gubagoo Chat cookies
| Cookie Name | Categorisation | Description | Duration | 1st/3rd Party |
| __ggtrses | functional | Gubagoo - Stores data relating to chat feature. It uses a cookie to decide when to display the chat feature. | 24 hours | First Party |
| __ggtruid | functional | Gubagoo - Stores data relating to chat feature. It uses a cookie to identify and differentiate between user sessions. | 2 years | First Party |
| *:cache_expiry | functional | Gubagoo - to know when the items in LocalStorage should expire | Persistant | First Party |
| gg_chat_popup_closed | functional | Gubagoo - to know that the chat popup has been closed | Persistant | First Party |
| gg_chat_welcome_msg | functional | Gubagoo - to know if the welcome message has been displayed | Persistant | First Party |
| gg_emulation_welcome_msg | functional | Gubagoo - Stores data relating to chat feature. Welcome message to be displayed when chat is opened | Persistant | First Party |
| gg_firestamps | functional | Gubagoo - Stores data relating to engagement. Logs when a user engages with a portion of Gubagoo | Persistant | First Party |
| gg_firestamps:cache_expiry | functional | Gubagoo - to know when the firestamp data should expire | 40 days | First Party |
| gg_repeat | functional | Gubagoo - Stores data relating to chat feature. Determines if a chat element that was hidden should reshow | Persistant | First Party |
| gg_repeat:cache_expiry | functional | Gubagoo - to know when the repeat data should expire | Persistant | First Party |
| gg_tabs-opened | functional | Gubagoo - tracks the number of tabs Gubagoo is open on | Persistant | First Party |
| gg_view-*_time | functional | Gubagoo - Stores data relating to chat feature. Records time when a view was generated | Persistant | First Party |
| gg_*_1_ccpa_accept | functional | Gubagoo - Tracks whether or not a Cookie toolbar has been accepted. Moves the chat feature up or down if on the page. | Persistant | First Party |
| prox_id | functional | Gubagoo - Responsible for determining chat socket to Glive / Chat Console | 24 hours | First Party |
| *_cbo_in_transit_vins | functional | Gubagoo - Stores vehicle VINs that are in transit to dealership but still sold in VR | Persistant | First Party |
The ability to enable, disable or delete cookies can also be completed at the browser level, in order to do this a user can follow the instructions provided by a browser (usually located within the "Help", "Tools" or "Edit" facility). Disabling a cookie or category of cookie does not delete the cookie from the users browser, the user will need to do this themselves from within the browser.
Please note, however, that if a user deletes cookies or refuses to accept them, the user might not be able to use all of the features this website offers, a user may not be able to store user preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
Last Updated: 26th May 2022