Cookie Notice
GSR Cookie Notice
- Introduction
GSR International Limited (“GSR,” “we“, “us” or “our“) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website (https://www.gsr.io) to enhance your experience and improve our services.
This Cookie Notice explains how we use cookies and your choices regarding their use.
- What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files (“Cookies”) stored on your device when you visit a website should you agree.
Cookies help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website – they help us to:
- distinguish you from other users of our website,
- remember your preferences,
- understand how you interact with our site,
- support our security measures, and,
- improve your user experience, for example, enabling a faster and easier experience for you.
- Types of Cookies
The following types of Cookies exist:
| Category | What they do | For example |
| Essential Cookies / Strictly Necessary Cookies | Required for the website to function and cannot be switched off. | Cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings, but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website. |
| Analytical / Performance Cookies | Allow us to recognise and count visitors and see how they navigate our website site when using it. | This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily and quickly. |
| Functionality Cookies | Enable enhanced features. | Enables recognition of you when you return to our website, remembers your preferences and supports personalisation of your experience. |
| Targeting 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 any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. |
- Cookie duration
Cookies can last for the following period of time:
| Type | What they do | How long do they last |
| Session Cookies | They are stored in the temporary memory of your device and do not collect information from your device. | They are not retained after the browser is closed. |
| Persistent Cookies | They are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as web surfing behaviour or user preferences for our website. | They are stored on a user’s device until it or the user deletes the cookie. |
- Cookies that GSR uses
The cookies GSR uses are listed below. We are also providing both the purpose and the name of each cookie. Please note that we may from time to time modify or update our cookies. When that happens, we will update this list accordingly. Please periodically revisit this notice to check for updates.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them, in the table below:
| Name | Type | Purpose |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed
(Duration: 365 days) |
Strictly Necessary
(Persistent) |
It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year and contains no personal information. |
| _ga
(Duration: 729 days) |
Performance Cookies
(Persistent) |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It distinguishes unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Performance Cookies
(Persistent) |
identifies and track an individual session with your device. |
| _gat_gtag_UA_nnnnnnnn_n | Targeting Cookies
(Persistent) |
Google Analytics |
| _gid
(Duration: for the session only) |
Performance Cookies
(Persistent) |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid |
| OptanonConsent | Strictly Necessary
(Persistent) |
This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
| what-intent
(Duration: for the session only) |
Necessary | Determines the device used to access the website. This allows the website to be formatted accordingly. |
| Marketing | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | |
| Marketing | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | |
| _gat
(Duration: for the session only) |
Marketing | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
| _ga_#
(Duration: 729 days) |
Marketing | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
- Third Party Cookies
Please note that third parties also use cookies over which we have no control.
Uses could be, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services.
These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical, performance or targeting cookies, and include:
| Name | Party | Type | Purpose |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | Targeting Cookies
(Persistent) |
keeps track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites; it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface |
| YSC
(Duration: for the session only) |
youtube.com | Targeting Cookies
(Persistent) |
Used to remember user input and associate a user’s actions. |
| NID
(Duration: 182 days) |
google.com | Targeting Cookies
(Persistent) |
This cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users. |
| Lidc | Targeting Cookies
(Persistent) |
This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website | |
| Bcookie
(Duration: 364 days) |
linkedin.com | Necessary | Used to detect spam and improve the website’s security. |
| Li_gc
(Duration: 179 days) |
linkedin.com | Necessary | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| Rc::a
(Duration: persistent) |
gstatic.com | Necessary | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. |
| Bscookie
(Duration: 364 days) |
linkedin.com | Necessary | This cookie is used to identify the visitor through an application. This allows the visitor to log in to a website through their LinkedIn application for example. |
| Lidc
(Duration: for the session only) |
linkedin.com | Preferences | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, to optimise user experience. |
| NID
(Duration: 182 days) |
google.com | Marketing | This cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users. |
| YSC
(Duration: for the session only) |
youtube.com | Marketing | Used to remember user input and associate a user’s actions. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
(Duration: 179 days) |
youtube.com | Marketing | Used to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store and track a visitor’s identity, store and track interaction. |
| UserMatchHistory
(Duration: 29 days) |
linkedin.com | Marketing | Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie can be used to support security of the website and visitor. |
To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you may visit the relevant consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
All cookies are stored in the US, except for X (previously Twitter) which is stored in the UK.
- Consent and Control
When you first visit our website, you will be prompted to accept or decline the use of non-essential cookies.
You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by clicking on the button(s) in the cookie consent mechanism. You can also choose to “Reject All” cookies in the cookie banner.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by accessing our cookie settings panel via the cookie icon.
Declining non-essential cookies may impact your user experience and the services we can provide.
For more information about our privacy practices, please refer to our Privacy Notice www.gsr.io/privacy-notice
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at dpo@gsr.io
Cookie Notice v4.2 (November 2024)
