Cookie usage

Our current assessment of the intrusiveness of the cookies used by our website www.rovop.com is as follows:

First-party cookies

We use cookies to monitor how visitors find and use our website. We report on this activity in aggregate, and use this information solely for the purposes of monitoring and improving our website. First party cookies are specific to the host site that created them (in this case, www.rovop.com). In all cases these first-party cookies do not store any personal or sensitive information, or anything that makes you personally identifiable to us.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our first-party cookies, you may be served one or more of the following third-party cookies during your visit to our website. We use a variety of widely-used third-party plugins as marketing tools for our own business and to provide convenience tools for our visitors. In our belief the use of these plugins represents current “best practice”. We have no direct control over the content of the cookies they create, the use made of any data collected, or the security of that data. These third parties may collect information about your visit to our website, and they may use this with other data in order to serve advertising which may be more relevant to you. Some visitors may see this use of data as intrusive to some degree.

Third party cookies are cookies created by an external service when you use a page on our website. These cookies are specific to the third-party’s domain and accordingly the data held in them can be seen and managed by the third party and not by us. We control whether or not we use the third-party service with our website, and how it is integrated and presented on our website. We do not have control over the cookies themselves.

First-party Cookies stored by Google Analytics

Cookie: _ga

Usage: This Google Analytics cookie is used to distinguish users.

Expires: 2 years from date set/update.

Cookie: _gid

Usage: This Google Analytics cookie is used to distinguish users.

Expires: 24 hours.

Cookie: _gat

Usage: The Google Analytics cookies is used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>.

Expires: 1 minute.

Cookie: AMP_TOKEN

Usage: This Google Analytics cookie contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.

Expires: 30 seconds to 1 year.

Cookie: _gac_<property-id>

Usage: This Google Analytics cookie contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.

Expires: 90 days.

Full details of the cookies which Google Analytics uses can be found in Cookies & Google Analytics in documentation for Google’s Analytics tracking code (link below). You can also read Google’s Privacy Policy for Google Analytics (link below).

We don’t share the data that Google Analytics collects, and we don’t believe that our use of Google Analytics is privacy-intrusive. We use the data that is collected in the following ways:

• to report, in aggregate, how our visitors find and use our website;
• to understand overall visitor behaviour; and
• to inform how we update and improve our website.

To opt out of our use of Google Analytics you may wish to consider using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Third-party Cookies stored by Google

Cookie: SID, APISID, HSID, SAPISID, SSID, NID, PREF, ULS

Usage: These Google cookies are all typically written to the browser upon the loading of Google Maps, Street View and YouTube videos.

Expires: Range from End of session to 2 years.

Visit the following link for further information of the cookies which Google Analytics use this link.

Visit the following link to see the Google Privacy Policy.

Visit the following link to learn about how to reject or delete cookies by Google.

We believe there is no reason for our website visitors to be particularly concerned about the privacy implications of any of the cookies we use, but we do recognise the importance of making you aware of the purpose and scope of the data stored in the cookies which are created or updated on your computer when you visit our website. You may choose to delete these cookies from your computer between visits to our website.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.