A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive while they are visiting a particular website. It contains simple information about the user’s identity but no personal information. The benefit of using cookies is that it allows us to monitor website traffic and record user’s preferences. Salix acknowledges and complies with the recent changes to the rules and regulations in regards to using cookies and similar technologies for storing information. Salix will ensure that the use of cookies is managed in accordance with national and legal guidelines, such as those that require the consent of website visitors for their use.
The cookies used on this website include:
- _utma – Used by Google Analytics to identify unique visitors v returning visitors
- _utmb – Used by Google Analytics for generally visitor tracking. This cookie takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site
- _utmc – Used by Google Analytics for generally visitor tracking. This cookie takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site
- _utmz – Used by Google Analytics for tracking source visits (i.e. where the user came from)
- ga – Used by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users
- PHPSESSID – Used to link a specific user with a PHP session and is required by some modules on our website
- X-Mapping – Used by our hosting provider to balance the load on each of the web servers and is part of the back-end architecture
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics (which uses cookies), the world’s most widely used website analytics service, to analyse the way people use our website, and help us improve user experience.
For more information see Google’s privacy policy, details of Google Analytics, and how to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics.
By continuing to use this website, you are consenting to cookies being used in accordance with our policy.