Data Protection Officer, The Geological Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BG dpo@geolsoc.org.uk
You are not obligated to provide your personal information to us. However, as this information is required for us to provide you with our services/deliver your products, we will not be able to offer some/all of our products or services without it.
Please note that this statement is not a legal contract and it may be updated to reflect any changes in the law or our privacy procedures.
Last updated: December 2021
A ‘cookie’ is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer by the user’s web browser while the user is browsing. When you visit a site that uses cookies for the first time, a cookie is downloaded onto your computer/mobile device so that the next time you visit that site, your device will remember useful information such as items added in the shopping cart, visited pages or logging in options.
Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, or to work more efficiently, and our site relies on cookies to optimise your user experience and for features, products and services to function properly.
Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Our cookies do not store financial information or information which is capable of directly identifying you (such as your name or address). You have the right to choose whether to accept these cookies.
Cookies used on our website
Essential cookies
These are used in order to ensure our website works efficiently, allows our services and products to function correctly. Maintains security and offers the best user experience.
Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId
Type: Essential
Issued by Microsoft's ASP.NET Application, this cookie stores session data during a user's website visit
Duration: session
Analytics cookies
Google Analytics cookies enable us to measure engagement and user behaviour in order to continually improve our website for our users. The information these cookies gather is completely anonymised.
Cookie: _ga
Type: 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.
Duration: 2 years
Cookie: _gid
Type: 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.
Duration: 1 day
Cookie:_gat
Type: Analytics
This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.
Duration: 1 minute
Cookie: __utma
Type: Analytics
This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
Duration: 2 years
Cookie: __utmc
Type: Analytics
The cookie is set by Google Analytics and is deleted when the user closes the browser. It is used to enable interoperability with urchin.js, which is an older version of Google Analytics and is used in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine new sessions/visits.
Duration: session
Cookie: __utmz
Type: Analytics
Google Analytics sets this cookie to store the traffic source or campaign by which the visitor reached the site.
Duration: 6 months
Cookie: __utmt
Type: Analytics
Google Analytics sets this cookie to inhibit request rate.
Duration: 10 minutes
Cookie: __utmb
Type: Analytics
Google Analytics sets this cookie, to determine new sessions/visits. __utmb cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. It is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
Duration: 30 minutes
Third party cookies
Cookies which are set by third party websites in order to measure how users view and share content that is on our website.
Cookie: pubconsent-V2
Type: Third party
A cookie connected to sharethis.com, which measures how users share content from our website. For more information, see https://sharethis.com/privacy/
Duration: 365 days
Cookie: fpestid
Type: Third party
A cookie connected to sharethis.com, which measures how users share content from our website. For more information, see https://sharethis.com/privacy/
Cookie: _stidv
Type: Third party
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Cookie: _stid
Type: Third party
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