The websites of SciLeads Ltd, a company registered in Northern Ireland with number NI622880) (we, us or our) at lssmawards.com uses “cookies” to distinguish you from other users of our websites. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our websites and also allows us to improve our sites.
A “cookie” is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive a “cookie” is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive..
We use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are essential cookies that are required for the operation of our websites. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our websites, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. Your consent is not needed for this type of cookie.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our websites when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our websites work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our websites. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our websites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our websites and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Category | Expiry | Description |
| cookies-functional | Strictly Necessary | Persistent | Used to store user’s functional cookie preferences after consent/decline. |
| cookies-analytics | Strictly Necessary | Persistent | Used to store user’s analytics cookie preferences after consent/decline. |
| cookies-marketing | Strictly Necessary | Persistent | Used to store user’s marketing cookie preferences after consent/decline. |
| cookies-preferences | Strictly Necessary | Persistent | Used to store user’s preferences cookie preferences after consent/decline. |
| _ga | Analytics | 1 Year(s) | *This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish 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. |
| _ga_# | Analytics | 1 Year(s) | *This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |