Cookies are tiny text files that are placed on your computer, mobile phone, or other device, and help provide you with the best experience we can. They are used to help you personalize your web experience. Some features will not work if you do not allow cookies.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you'd expect
- You visit the site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed / security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
Granting us permission to use cookies
If you are using this website (your browser) If you wish to remove them, do so if you want to avoid them, but doing so will mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
For more information about cookies, please see allaboutcookies.org.
Which cookies do we use and why?
1. Strictly necessary
Strictly necessary cookies are essential in helping you to move around our websites and use their features. These cookies do not gather any information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you've been on the internet.
We use these Strictly Necessary cookies to:
- A single web browser session
- Remember the goods and services you ordered when you get the checkout
- You are being signed in and keeping you logged in.
Using our site indicates that you accept the use of 'Strictly Necessary' cookies.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we can not guarantee you as our site will perform for you.
We are defined as 'Strictly Necessary'
Host | Cookie name | Purpose |
www.smartcitiesworld.net | JSESSIONID | To keep track of user sessions on the site and identify your user session. |
CFIDE | ||
CFTOKEN | ||
www.smartcitiesworld.net | AFFINO_x | This option is ticked. Each user profile has a number replacing x |
AFFINOLIVE_x |
2. Functional
These cookies allow websites and applications to be remembered you make (as your user name, language or region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. They do not gather any information about you that you could have been using on the internet.
Some examples of how we do this include:
- Remembering your preferences and settings.
- Show you when you're logged in to the website
- Supporting social media components, like Facebook or Twitter (where a website uses a plugin from these third party platforms, for example).
- Remember if you have been to the site before and that messages are intended for the first time users are not displayed to you.
- Remembering your search settings
- Making our shopping basket and checkout work
- Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
Using our site indicates that you accept the use of 'Functional' cookies.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we can not guarantee you as our site will perform for you.
Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as 'Functional'.
Host | Cookie name | Purpose |
www.smartcitiesworld.net | RVP | As a guest user we store the last 10 products you viewed |
accounts_tab_active | Store the state of the Affino account tab (open or closed) | |
contacts_tab_active | Store the state of the Affino contacts tab (open or closed) | |
Affino_Control | Stores the layout of the Affinity control panel (left or right) | |
Affino_BrowserMode | Set your browser to iPad and you'll be able to see what that user sees | |
LiveEditSwitch | Affino functionality remembers your settings | |
Affino_ControlWideScreen | Affino functionality remembers your settings if you selected this option | |
NewID | Cross domain check | |
Affino_CartID | Holds the users shopping cart ID | |
Affino_CookiePolicy | Stores the Cookie Policy status |
3. Performance (analytical)
'Performance' cookies collect information about how you use our website e.g. which pages you visit, and if you experience any errors. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you – all the information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve how our website works.
Some examples of how we do this include:
- Provide statistics on how our website is used
- See how effective our ads are (we do not use this information)
- Provide feedback to partners that also visit their website. This can include details of any products bought. This allows our partners to improve their website, but we do not allow our partners to reuse this information for further advertising
- Help us improve the website by measuring any errors that occur
Cookies using the site that you accept.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website, so if you prevent them we can not guarantee you as our site will perform for you.
Here is a list of the cookies we have defined as 'Performance'.
Host | Cookie name | Purpose |
smartcitiesworld.net | km_ai | Is used on affino.com but is not in Affino standards. If your site uses Kissmetrics you'll need to include these. |
km_lv | ||
km_ni | ||
km_uq | ||
km_vs | ||
KVCD | ||
smartcitiesworld.net | __utma | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site (including Google Maps). We use the information to improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including visitors to the site. Google Privacy policy |
__utmb | ||
__utmc | ||
__utmv | ||
__utmx | ||
__utmz | ||
google.co.uk | NID | |
PREF | ||
SNIDs | ||
www.smartcitiesworld.net | precache | Serve a cached version of the site |
PRECACHECHECK |
4. Target or Advertising (3rd party)
'Targeting' are cookies provided by third parties, such as 'Like' buttons and 'Share' buttons. The third party provides these services in return for recognizing that you have visited our website.
An example of this includes:
- Link to social networks like Facebook, who can use information on your website
- We use third party services provided by YouTube or Vimeo who can use information about your website
You can control whether or not these cookies are used, but they can prevent you from using you services. All of these cookies are managed by third parties, and you may alternatively use the third parties' own tools to prevent these cookies.
We are defined as 'Targeting'.
Host | Cookie name | Purpose |
facebook.com | __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmv, __utmz | These are used for facebook integration. Some Affino sites use single sign on (SSO). This service provides users with the option to sign in using their Facebook login. Facebook cookies are set. Further information on Facebook's Data Use policy is available at www.facebook.com/about/privacy |
player.vimeo.com | c_user, datr, act, locale, lu, p, presence, s, xs | Vimeo creates these cookies when users view Vimeo video |
av.vimeo.com | aka_debug | |
www.linkedin.com | X-LI-IDC | These are used for LinkedIn integration. Some Affino sites use single sign on (SSO). This service provides users with the login option. LinkedIn cookies are set. |
cdn.lmodules.com | ||
__utmz | ||
X-LI-IDC | ||
JSESSIONID | ||
leo_auth_token | ||
NSC_MC_QH_MFP | ||
NSC_MC_WT_DTQ_IUUQ | ||
PersistenceCookie | ||
visit | ||
X-LI-IDC | ||
linkedin.com | __qca, __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmv, __utmz, _lipt, bcookie, lang, lw | |
doubleclick.net | id | This is a Google tracking cookie for advertising purposes |
soundcloud.com | __utma | Soundcloud can be used to share music and audio files. They use google analytics to capture visitor information |
__utmb | ||
__utmc | ||
__utmz | ||
youtube.com | PREF | YouTube creates these cookies when you view a YouTube web site |
use_hitbox | ||
PRVISITOR_INFO1_LIVEEF | ||
imrworldwide.com | IMRID | Red Sheriff |
V5 | ||
quantserve.com | mc | This is an advertising cookie from Qantcast |
scorecardresearch.com | UID | These are market research cookies |
UIDR |