GFL - Cookie Policy

GFL Website Cookies Declaration

If you agree to our use of cookies, please ACCEPT this message and Continue to use this site.

GFL uses cookies (small text files placed on your device) and similar technologies to give you a better user experience and to help collect data. The text in a cookie often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your computer, but it can contain other information as well.

Our use of cookies and similar technologies:

GFL uses cookies and similar technologies for several purposes, which may include:

  • Storing your Preferences and Settings: Settings that enable our website to operate correctly or that maintain your preferences over time may be stored on your device.
  • Sign-in and Authentication:  When you sign into our website using your credentials, we store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within the site without having to sign in again on each page. You can also save your sign-in information so you do not have to sign in each time you return to the site.
  • Security: We use cookies to detect fraud and abuse of our websites and services.
  • Social Media: Some of our websites include social media cookies, including those that enable users who are logged in to the social media service to share content via that service.
  • Storing your Preferences and Settings: Settings that enable our website to operate correctly or that maintain your preferences over time may be stored on your device.
  • Analytics: In order to provide our website efficiently, we use cookies and other identifiers to gather usage and performance data. For example, we use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a web page or service and to develop other statistics about the operations of our website. This includes cookies from GFL and from third-party analytics providers.
  • Performance: GFL uses cookies for load balancing to ensure that websites remain up and running.

In addition to the cookies GFL sets when you visit our websites, third parties may also set cookies when you visit GFL sites. In some cases, that is because we have hired the third party to provide services on our behalf, such as site analytics. In particular, we use cookies from Google Analytics (read Google's privacy policy) for website analytics and metrics, Linkedin and facebook (read Linkedin and Facebook’s privacy policy) for website security, if you want to know more about these services use cookies and personal data, please refer to the privacy notices directly on each third party's website.

Some of the cookies we commonly use are listed below. This list is not exhaustive, but it is intended to illustrate the main reasons we typically set cookies.

For more information about cookies, please refer to cookies detail.

Functional cookies
  • Functional cookies are used by this platform to give users one of the best experiences by understanding their preferred choices. These cookies help the platform to make work easier for our users while they navigate and make transactions.
Analytical cookies
  • Analytical Cookies are used by this platform to serve users better based on the analysis of choices they make on the platform. These cookies allow the platform to provide suggestions which best suit user needs and in general help them to make better choices.
Marketing & Advertising cookies
  • Marketing cookies are used by this platform to allow users to get better learning suggestions based on their preferences and behaviour. By understanding the choices they make on the platform, we try to serve them with similar suggestions and notify them using different communication channels.
Cookie Description Duration Type
_ga This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. 2 years Analytics
_gid This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. 1 day Analytics
_gat Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate 1 day Analytics
GPS Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location provided by youtube 1 Day Analytics
IDE doubleclick.net - Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. 1 year Analytics
test_cookie doubleclick.net -: Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. 1 day Analytics
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE youtube.com - Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. 180 Days Analytics
YSC youtube.com- Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Session Analytics
yt-remote-cast-installed youtube.com - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Persistent Analytics
yt-remote-connected-devices youtube.com - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Persistent Analytics
yt-remote-device-id youtube.com - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session Analytics
yt-remote-fast-check-period youtube.com - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session Analytics
yt-remote-session-app youtube.com - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session Analytics
yt-remote-session-name youtube.com - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session Analytics