Cookies Policy
Last updated: 03/04/2023
VetPartners Limited (“us”, “we”, or “our”) uses cookies on our website to distinguish you from other users of the website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience and also allows us to improve our site.
Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the website, and your choices regarding cookies.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. If you agree, a cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the website or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the website more useful to you.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
How VetPartners uses cookies
When you use and access the website, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use both session and persistent cookies. We use different types of cookies to run the website:
- Essential cookies: These are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make use of e-billing services. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.
- Analytical or performance cookies: These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us improve the website, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We may also use analytics cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features, or new functionality of the website to see how our users react to them.
- Functionality cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences.
- Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Description | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years | Analytics |
| ga<container-id> | Used to persist session state. | 2 years | Analytics |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | 24 hours | Analytics |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. | 1 minute | Analytics |
Please note that third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies, performance cookies, or targeting cookies.
What are your choices regarding cookies?
If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
- For the Chrome web browser, please visit this page from Google: Chrome Support
- For the Internet Explorer web browser, please visit this page from Microsoft: Microsoft Support
- For the Firefox web browser, please visit this page from Mozilla: Mozilla Support
- For the Safari web browser, please visit this page from Apple: Apple Support
For any other web browser, please visit your web browser’s official web pages.
Where can you find more information about cookies?
You can learn more about cookies using the following third-party websites:
This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.