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Privacy and cookie policy
Capricorn Energy PLC is an independent, UK-based oil and gas exploration and development company headquartered in Edinburgh.
This privacy notice applies to the use of the personal data collected via our website, or provided to us by any other means, and is intended to provide a clear explanation of what personal data we collect and how it is used. We will only hold information about you that is necessary for specific purposes and will not request any additional information that is not required for those purposes. When we talk about processing, under UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) this means anything that is done to, or with, personal data (including simply collecting, storing or deleting this information).
Much of the personal data we hold will have been provided directly by you, such as when you have submitted an enquiry or subscribed to receive email alerts. Other information will have been collected from your browsing, for example, cookies and IP addresses.
Further information about the types of personal information we hold and how it is processed are listed below:
Cookies
When you use our website, like many others, we use small files called cookies in order to make the site work as expected, to help us customise your experience when visiting the site and provide us with information about the use of our website.
Cookies are small text files that are stored by the browser on your computer or mobile device. They allow websites to store things like user preferences, almost like a memory of your browsing so that you can be recognised if you use the website again, making your next visit easier and the site more useful to you.
The law states that we can store cookies on your device where they are essential to the operation of the site, for example, to enable you to move around the website and use its features. For other non-essential ones we require your permission. At any time, you can remove your permission for non-essential cookies, however, disabling these may have a negative impact on how the website functions for you.
Where we use non-essential cookies, we do so in order to gain useful knowledge about how the site is used, which pages are visited and how often, etc. We use this information to ensure our website functions effectively for our users. We do not use these cookies to track or identify individual users.
Below is a list of the cookies we use on this site and how long we keep them for:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function and cannot be switched off.
Session Cookies | ASP.NET_Sessionld XSRF-TOKEN XSRF-V UCONTEXT ApplicationGatewayAffinity ApplicationGatewayAffinityCORS | These are temporary cookie files that allow you to access and move around our website and access any secure areas. | These cookies are deleted at the end of your browsing session. |
Performance Cookies
Performance cookies allow us to count visits to our site and the traffic source, enabling us to improve the performance of the site. They help us understand which pages are most and least popular and how users move around our website. The information gathered is aggregated and anonymous. These can be disabled but may have a negative impact on your experience when using our website.
Google Analytics Cookies | ga gld gat | All Google Analytics cookies collect information in an anonymous form. ga cookies are used to distinguish users gid cookies are used to distinguish users gat cookies are used to throttle site request rate | ga cookies are deleted after 2 years gid cookies are deleted after 24 hours gat cookies are deleted after 24 hours |
Custom Cookies
Custom cookies allow us to record your cookie preferences.
Custom Cookies | CookieControl | Used when user accepts our cookie policy | Deleted after 3 months |
For information on how to manage Cookie preferences go to http://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/managing-cookies or http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
| Cookie name | Description | Retention Period | Third Party |
CookieControl | Stores user consent preferences for your website. | 3 months | No |
CookieControlTC | Stores IAB TCF consent preferences. | 3 months | Unknown |
_ga | ID used to identify users | 1 years | Unknown |
_ga_* | Used to identify and track an individual user session. | 2 years | No |
_gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours | 24 hours | No |
_gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager | 58 seconds | No |
_dc_gtm_ | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 1 minute | No |
AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token code that is used to read out a Client ID from the AMP Client ID Service. By matching this ID with that of Google Analytics, users can be matched when switching between AMP content and non-AMP content. | 1 year | No |
_gat_* | Used to set and get tracking data | 1 hour | No |
_gac_ | Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together. | 90 days | No |
__utma | ID used to identify users and sessions | 2 years | No |
__utmt | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 10 minutes | No |
__utmb | Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 30 minutes | No |
__utmc | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. | session | No |
__utmz | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server | 6 months | No |
__utmv | Contains custom information set by the web developer through the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated each time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 2 years | Unknown |
__utmx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. | 18 months | No |
__utmxx | Used to determine when the A / B or Multivariate test in which the user participates ends | 18 months | No |
FPAU | Assigns a specific ID to the visitor. This allows the website to determine the number of specific uservisits for analysis and statistics. | session | No |
FPID | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | 1 years | No |
FPLC | This FPLC cookie is the cross-domain linker cookie hashed from the FPID cookie. It’s not HttpOnly, which means it can be read with JavaScript. It has a relatively short lifetime, just 20 hours. | 20 hours | No |