Ligtas Consultancy and Training is committed to protecting your privacy. We value our visitors and endeavor to create an enjoyable and safe shopping experience when visiting our website.
This Cookie Policy sets out how we use and protect any information that you give when you use this website. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used by this privacy statement. We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
An Introduction to Cookies
A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
Cookies deployed by our website:
- Ensure that functionality operates as intended
- Remember your choices and preferences during and between visits
- Allow you to share pages via social network widgets like Facebook, Twitter, and Add This
- Allow you to interact with our website by leaving comments or opinions
- Post enquiries via our Anti-Spam enquiry form
- Track your visit for statistical analysis, allowing us to improve the usability, speed, and security of our website
- Allow us to select which of our advertisements or offers are most likely to appeal to you and display them while you are on the website.
Cookies are not deployed to:
- Collect any personal identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
Your Consent for Cookie Deployment by our Website Upon your first visit to our website, you may have noticed our banner alerting you to the use of cookies by our website. In compliance with the 2011 EU Cookie Law, our website operates on an ‘Implied Consent’ basis. This means that we will assume that you have opted-in for our website to deploy cookies until you choose to deactivate them within your browser settings or via the instructions below. By default, the majority of popular web browsers automatically permit websites to deploy cookies onto your device. Below you can learn more about the specific cookies deployed by our website, and how they can be disabled. For more information on the EU Cookie Law in the UK, we recommend visiting the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website where you can find the latest information, guidelines and advice on the EU Cookie Law.
Cookies Used by Our Website
Social Network Sharing
We encourage users to share our content and/or like our profile on the popular Social Media websites Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, and LinkedIn. To make ‘Social Sharing’ accessible, our website utilises widgets either provided directly from the Social Networks and/or via amalgamative widgets from third parties such as AddThis. Cookies and privacy implications from the social networks vary and will be dependent on your nominated privacy settings with each Social Network. Social Sharing buttons will only deploy cookies if you are signed to that respective Social Network at the time of being on our website.
Analytical Tracking
Our website has Google Analytics installed which allows us to track and compile anonymous visitor statistics. The information collected ranges from simple traffic volume to the type of browser you are viewing our website with. This information is valuable to us not just for marketing analysis and quantification, but to improve the usability, security, and load speed of our website content. Google Analytics is a popular, secure, flagship webmaster product from Google.
The privacy and security of Google Analytics data is a high priority at Google that you can read more about on Google’s Analytics Data Safeguarding page. Google also offers a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on that will allow you to automatically Opt-out of all websites that track your activity via Google Analytics. No personal information is collected by Google Analytics.
Cookie Consent Check
As mentioned above, upon your first visit our website displays a banner at the top of the page alerting you about cookies being deployed by our website. For our website to remember your choice of opting-in, we store an anonymous cookie to remove the alert banner for 28 days. To prevent this cookie from being stored, simply do not accept and close the alert. If you have already accepted the alert and you wish to remove the cookie, please clear your cookies within your browser settings.
We may use third-party network advertisers to serve advertisements and third-party analytics vendors to provide us with information about the use of the website. Whilst we do not share personal data with these third parties, ad network providers, the advertisers, and/or analytics service providers may set and access their cookies and similar technologies on your device and they may otherwise collect or have access to data about you (including usage data).
Third parties that provide marketing programs on our behalf are responsible for maintaining both cookie opt-in and opt-out functionality. We and our advertisers may target advertisements for products and services in which you might be interested based on your visits to the website, subject to your prior opt-in if and when required by the applicable laws. If you prefer to not receive targeted advertising, you can opt out of some network advertising programs that use your Personal Data. To do so please visit the NAI Opt-Out Page: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Note that even where you choose to remove your data (opt-out), you might still see advertisements while you are browsing online.
Google Maps/Places
Our website may have our Google Maps/Places profile embedded within an iframe. RememberRememberGoogle Maps creates cookies that enable the functionality of their powerful mapping software. No personal information is stored or shared on the cookies deployed by Google Maps/Places.
Actual Cookies Deployed
Below is a table of information that lists all cookies deployed and used on our website.
Cookie name
Level |
Description |
CMSCookieLevel |
System |
Specifies which cookies are allowed by the visitor. |
ASP.NET_SessionId |
System |
Keeps the user session ID for security reasons. |
CMSCsrfCookie |
System |
Store’s a security token that the system uses to validate all form |
CMSPreferredCulture |
Essential |
Stores the visitor’s preferred content culture. |
CMSMobileRedirected |
Essential |
Indicates if the visitor has been redirected to the mobile version of |
CMSCurrentTheme |
Essential |
Stores the name of the current visual theme to provide proper design |
Webauthtoken |
Essential |
Live ID authentication cookie. |
CMSForumPostAnswer |
Essential |
Keeps a list of Question-Answer forum posts |
CMSVotedPolls |
Essential |
Keeps a list of polls where |
CMSRatedDocuments |
Essential |
Keeps a list of pages that the user rated to |
CMSShowDesktopVersion |
Essential |
Indicates that the visitor has switched to the desktop (default) |
CMSWindowsUser |
Essential |
Stores information for users who were imported from an Active |
.ASPXFORMSAUTH |
Essential |
Stores the user’s encrypted authentication ticket when using forms |
CMSPreferredUICulture |
Editor |
Stores the preferred UI culture of the user. |
CMSViewMode |
Editor |
Stores the user’s current view mode (Edit, Preview, Design, etc.). |
CMSImpersonation |
Editor |
Stores user information when impersonating a different user in |
CMSUserWords |
Editor |
User’s custom word dictionary kept by the spell checker. |
DisplayContentInDesignMode |
Editor |
Remembers the user’s setting of the Web part content checkbox |
DisplayContentInUIElementDesignMode |
Editor |
Remembers the user’s setting of the Web part content check |
CMSMacroDesignerTab |
Editor |
Remembers the last active tab of the Edit macro condition dialog. |
CMSSplitMode |
Editor |
Remembers the state of the language version split-view mode when |
CMSPreviewState |
Editor |
Stores the user’s latest page design preview preferences. |
CMSPropertyTab |
Editor |
Remembers the last active tab of the Properties section in the Pages |
CMSViewTab |
Editor |
Remembers the last active tab of the View section in the Preview mode |
CMSValidationTab |
Editor |
Remembers the last active tab of the Validation section in the Preview |
CMSEdVariantSliderPositions |
Editor |
Remembers the position of the variant slider when defining variants |
CMSWebPartToolbarCategory |
Editor |
Stores the selected web part category on the web part toolbar. |
CMSWebPartToolbarMinimized |
Editor |
Remembers if the user minimized the web part toolbar on the Design |
CMSCurrentDeviceProfileName |
Editor |
Stores the selected device profile when |
CMSCurrentDeviceProfileRotate |
Editor |
Remembers whether the device preview uses the landscape or portrait |
CMSUniGraph |
Editor |
Stores the user’s Snap to grid preference in the |
CMSSessionToken |
Editor |
Stores the token used by the web service that provides the advanced |
ABSelectorState |
Editor |
Stores the state of the selectors on AB test overview page. |
VisitorStatus |
Visitor |
Indicates if the visitor is new or returning. Used for tracking |
Source |
Visitor |
Stores the channel which the user came from (e.g., email, Facebook, |
Campaign |
Visitor |
Stores the web analytics Campaign assigned |
TrackedCampaigns |
Visitor |
Stores all the web analytics Campaigns, |
UrlReferrer |
Visitor |
Stores the URL referrer from which the user arrives on the website. |
CurrentContact |
Visitor |
Stores the GUID of the contact related |
CMSAB |
Visitor |
Used to track conversions for the test and maintain consistent page |
CMSMVT |
Visitor |
Stores the combination of variants assigned to the visitor by an MVT test. |
CMSNoTestMVT |
Visitor |
Stores the currently selected MVT combination for editors in the |
CMSShoppingCart |
Visitor |
Stores a reference to the user’s active shopping cart. |
CMSBodyClass |
Visitor |
Body element class to provide accessibility standards. |
CMSEdCurrent |
Visitor |
Stores the current step of Wizard layout web |
CMSUserPage |
Visitor |
Stores the IDs (DocumentID, NodeID) of the last visited page. Used for |
ChatLoggedInToken |
Visitor |
Stores the login state for the Chat application |
ChatSupportLoggedInToken |
Visitor |
Indicates if the user is logged in to the support chat. |
__roomID |
Visitor |
Stores bindings between groups of chat web parts and |
chat_autoinitchat_displayed_ |
Visitor |
Remembers if the Automatically initiated chat web part was shown to the user (prevents multiple chat initiation messages). |
chat_kick_roomid_ |
Visitor |
Indicates that the user was kicked from the specified chat room (and |
StrandsSBS_* |
Visitor |
Used by the Strands Recommender solely for its own purposes. The |
CMSStrandsTrackEvent_* |
Visitor |
Stores persistent HTTP context after a page is reloaded. Used for |
__openid_selector_* |
Visitor |
Stores OpenId user identification for authentication purposes. |
CMSLandingPageLoaded |
Visitor |
Indicates that the landing page has already been visited and the Landing |
How to Disable Cookies
Most modern browsers allow you to control your cookie settings for all websites that you browse. You can disable cookie deployment completely by editing your browser settings, however, in doing this you may be limiting the functionality that is displayed on our website. To learn how to disable cookies on your preferred browser we recommend reading this advice posted by Google.
If you are concerned about cookies tracking your movements on the Internet then you may be concerned about spyware. Spyware is the name given to a particular band of cookies that track personal information about you. There are many antispyware programs that you can use to prevent this from happening.
Learn more about antispyware software – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware. As mentioned earlier in this page you can also disable Google Analytics on all websites by downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.