RHS Cookies Policy

Cookies we use on our website allows us to -

• Recognise you each time you visit our site and provide you with personalised content that matches your interests.
• Help us see how the website visitors interact with our website and the number of visitors to our website. This helps us to improve the way our website is used and works. These Cookies are called ‘Performance’ Cookies.
• Deliver personalised adverts relevant to you interests from the RHS on our website and on other platforms such as Facebook as well as deliver adverts on behalf of other companies. These Cookies are called ‘Analytical and Personalisation’, ‘Advertising Cookies’ and ‘Third Party Advertising’ Cookies

Third parties may use their own cookies to gather anonymous information about site usage which may be used to provide relevant advertising on third party websites. Third-party cookies may enable functions on the sites provided by third parties such as twitter and facebook. They may also collect information that helps them identify your device, such as IP address or other unique or device identifiers.

Some third party cookies are placed by service providers to the RHS on our behalf to assist us with site operations, services, applications, advertisements and tools. For example, we use Google Analytics which gathers data on which pages you visit on our website and how long you spend on each webpage.  This data helps us to better understand how our visitors interact with our website, make improvements and personalise advertisements.

Purpose

To improve advertising, to target advertising based on what is relevant to you, to improve reporting on campaign performance and to avoid showing advertising that you have seen.

Function

Performance and Targeting

Cookie(s)

id, IDE

Purpose

To improve Google paid search and display advertising, to target more relevant advertising, which content you have viewed and to report on campaign performance.

Function

Performance and Targeting

Cookie(s)

test_cookie, id, IDE

Purpose

To improve paid search advertising including to target more relevant advertising, which content you have viewed and to report on campaign performance.

Function

Performance and Targeting

Cookie(s)

MR, MUID,

Purpose

To link events like a sale back to an affiliate advertisement clicked on to understand performance and reward commission.

Function

Performance

Cookie(s)

_aw_m_2273

Purpose

To track your engagements on our website, deliver a personalised overlay sales message at an appropriate time. Events such as a purchase are also tracked to understand the performance of that message.

Function

Performance and Targeting

Cookie(s)

yieldify_iv, yieldify_location, yieldify_sale_ts, yieldify_st, yieldify_stc, yieldify_tv, yieldify_ujt, yieldify_visit

Purpose

To track and optimise audience campaign performance of advertising inventory served on The Guardian website(s).

Function

Performance and Targeting

Cookie(s)

01AI, HRL8, mt_misc, mt_mop, uuid, uuidc, rpx, khaos, put_1512, rpb, c

Purpose

To target, track, and optimise campaign performance of advertising inventory served on Twitter

Function

Performance, Targeting and Functional

Cookie(s)

tid, guest_id

Purpose

To target, track, and optimise campaign performance of advertising inventory served on Facebook.

Function

Performance, Targeting and Functional

Cookie(s)

datr, dpr, fr, locale, lu, sb

Purpose

To track and optimise audience campaign performance of advertising inventory served throughout the DMG Network of news websites including, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline and Metro.

Function

Performance and Targeting

Cookie(s)

anj, sess, uuid2

Purpose

To track and optimise audience campaign performance of advertising inventory served throughout the Captify display network of websites. Captify uses website behaviour, such as pages or products viewed, and site search terms.

Function

Performance and Targeting

Cookie(s)

anj, sess, uuid2

Purpose

To collect analytical data about how visitors use our sites to improve reporting across RHS’s web domains and relevance of content seen by visitors

Function

Performance and Targeting

Cookie(s)

_one_<various>, _one_srv_<various>

Purpose

To track and optimise campaign performance of advertising inventory served throughout the Inflecto display network of websites. Inflecto uses RHS website behaviour, such as pages or products viewed to link back to the advertisement clicked on to understand performance and optimise RHS marketing activity

Function

Third party advertising

Cookie(s)

trk, i2357, c2357, x2357, v2357, sess, ckmsid, CKM_<various>

Purpose

Provides a refer a friend programme

Function

To target and track our reward scheme

Cookie(s)

mm_id, redirecttoflow, mm_analytics

See the full list of cookies used by Mention Me

Purpose

To collect behavioural and technical data about how visitors interact with our sites, including which pages are visited from which operating systems, where visitors touch, zoom in screen, highlight text, how they tap through the keyboard, scroll and click and time of engagement.

Function

Performance and Targeting

Cookie(s)

_cs_id, _cs_s, _cs_vars, _cs_ex, _cs_c, _cs_optout, _cs_mk

Purpose

To collect behavioural and technical data about how visitors interact with our sites, including which pages are visited from which operating systems, where visitors touch, scroll and click and time of engagement.

Function

Performance and analytics

Cookie(s)

_ga

Purpose

To collect analytics on how visitors to https://collections.rhs.org.uk/ interact with the website, including which collections and specimens are most viewed and engaged with.

Function

Analytics

Cookie(s)

openaccess_session