Cookie Policy

 

What is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files, given ID tags that are stored on your computer's browser directory or program data subfolders. Cookies are created when you visit a website that is designed to:

• Track your movements within a website
• Help you resume where you left off
• Remember your registered login and other customisation functions.

Cookies usually don't contain much information except for the web address of the website that created the cookie, the duration of the cookie's abilities and effects, and a random number. Due to the little amount of information a cookie contains, it usually cannot be used to reveal your identity or personally identifying information.

Why do we use Cookies?

Frontier use cookies to help improve a user's experience of our website. We use them to track the most/least popular pages so we can see what users are most interested in and which areas we can improve to increase user interest.

We also use cookies as a security measure to make sure users who log into our site can access all the functionality that they expect. Additionally they are used to help remember any items that you add to your basket whilst shopping to make the checkout process easier when returning to the site. Frontier does not use cookies to identify individual users.

What Cookies do we use?

Cookie

Name

Purpose

Websites cookie is present

Google Analytics

_utma

_utmb

_utmc

_utmz

This cookie is set whenever a user visits the page. These are used to collect information about how visitors use our site and which pages are most popular. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. They collect information in an anonymous form. Each cookie has a varying expiry date, for more information on Google Analytics cookies visit:

http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

Frontier

iTRAC

MyFarm

Kings

Soyl

Web Trend Analytics

WEBTRENDS_ID

ACOOKIE

This cookie is set whenever a user visits the page. These are used to track trends and collect information about how visitors use the website. They collect information in an anonymous form to help compile reports. This cookie expires after 10 years.

Frontier

Crop Dynamics

Weather Forecast

FrontierAg

This is set whenever a user enters a location into the weather forecast so that whenever a user returns to the site the area they entered is displayed. This cookie will expire after 1 Year.

Frontier

Authentication

SessionID

FrontierAuth

This cookie is set if a user has logged in. This will help pass security checks to allow the user into certain areas of the website that can only be accessed by users who have logged in. This cookie expires when the user navigates to another website outside of Frontier.

Frontier

MyFarm

iTRAC

Search

ASPSESSIONIDSQQSDQQR

This cookie is set when the sites search bar is used. It maintains the user state between pages. This cookie expires when user ends their browsing session.

Frontier

Forex Tools

PHPSESSID

This cookie is set to enable Forex webtools to operate on the website. This cookie expires when user ends their browsing session.

Frontier

Crop Dynamics

PHP Session

Randomly generated per session e.g.

f45b995a5ea65529
2dd45510f1aa8aca

This is a default session cookie generated by PHP website software. This is used to identify a user from one page request to another and is used as a key to retrieve any temporary data such as logged in state, search options etc that the site has set. This cookie expires when user ends their browsing session.

Kings

Crop Dynamics

Lothian

Nomix

PHP Persistent

Randomly generated per user e.g.

60b67be9e1a4c8e8c
c723d3553fd3ced

This cookie is set whenever a user ticks the 'Remember Me' option when they log in so that the website will recognise a returning user and log them in automatically. This cookie expires after 1 year.

Crop Dynamics

Soyl

Authentication

SessionID

This cookie is set if a user has logged in. This will help pass security checks to allow the user into certain areas of the website that can only be accessed by users who have logged in. It also allows maintenance of the shopping basket even if not logged in. This cookie expires when the user navigates to another website outside of Frontier.

iTRAC

Kings

Farm Reference

MyFarm_FarmReference

This cookie is used to display the currently selected farm as the user navigates through the site. This cookie expires when user ends their browsing session.

MyFarm

 

For more information on Cookies please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

 

We use cookies to improve our website and your experience when using it. Cookies used for the essential operation of the site have already been set. To find out more about the cookies we use and how to delete them, see our Cookie Policy.

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