What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Cookies help ABP (UK Dredging / UKD is a division of ABP) enhance your experience when using this website. They also help ABP understand how people use our site, such as which pages are most popular, so that we can better serve our site users.

Cookies on this site may be delivered in a first party (set by the ABP website) or third party (set by another website) context and may also be set in association with emails your receive from us.

What cookies does this ABP website use?

This ABP website uses the following types of cookies.

1) Essential Cookies

These cookies are essential for enabling visitors to this ABP website to move around our website, and provide access to features such as press releases and blogs. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes, and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.

2) Performance / Analytics Cookies

Google Analytics cookies are used on this website to collect information about how visitors use our website. These cookies collect information in the aggregate that give ABP insight into how our website is being used.

3) Tracking Cookies

These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. ABP use this type of cookie to deliver content from third parties, such as YouTube or Vimeo, to streamline our marketing, and to present advertisements from us in other websites to advertise our products, services or offers.

4) Functions Cookies

Functional cookies are used to collect data to help constantly improve the user experience on our website.

The table below provides more information about the cookies used on this website.

Essential Cookies

Cookie Name Purpose Expiration Date
CookieControl Set by Civic when the user accepts the cookie policy. After 90 days
UMB-XSRF-TOKEN, UMB-XSRF-V, UMB-UCONTEXT-C These are backend-specific cookies. They are only seen by site administrators accessing the back end of the website. They are used in maintaining the session state of the logged-in user. Session
AEC AEC cookies ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user’s knowledge. 6 months

Performance / Analytics Cookies

Cookie Name Purpose Expiration Date
_ga This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. 2 years
OTZ This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. It provides an aggregate analysis of Website visitors. 1 week
vuid This cookie is placed by Vimeo. It is used to store the user's usage history. 2 years
_gid This cookie is installed by Google Analytics.It is used to store and count pageviews. 1 day

Marketing / Tracking

Cookie Name Purpose Expiration Date
DSID This cookie is placed by Google DoubleClick. The cookie is used to store user preferences. 2 weeks
IDE This cookie is placed by Google DoubleClick. The cookie is used to provide ad delivery or targeting. 2 years
1P_JAR This cookie is placed by Google Ads Optimization. The cookie is used to provide ad delivery or targeting. 1 month
NID This cookie is placed by Google Ads Optimization. The cookie is used to provide ad delivery or targeting, and to store user preferences. 6 months
__Secure-3PAPISID This cookie is placed by Google Ads Optimization. The cookie is used to provide ad delivery or targeting. 2 years
__Secure-3PSID This cookie is placed by Google Ads Optimization. The cookie is used to provide ad delivery or targeting. 2 years
__Secure-3PSIDCC This cookie is placed by Google Ads Optimization. The cookie is used to provide ad delivery or targeting. 2 years
DV This cookie is placed by Google Ads Optimization. The cookie is used to provide ad delivery or targeting. 1 day
SSID, HSID, APISID, SAPISID This cookie is placed by Google Ads Optimization. The cookie is used to provide ad delivery or targeting. These cookies enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube. 2 years
_gcl_au This cookie is placed by Google Adsense. It is used to store and track conversions. persistent
_abexps This cookie is used by Vimeo. It is used so Vimeo can remember the settings user made - language, username.. 1 year
_uetvid This cookie is used by Bing Ads and Vimeo. It is used to store and track visits across websites. 13 months
_clck This cookie is used by Microsoft Clarity and Vimeo. It is used to store a unique user ID. 1 year
_fbp It is used by Facebook and Vimeo. It is used to store and track visits across websites. 3 months
_scid_r, _scid It is used by Vimeo. It is used to collect informations about user actions on website. 1 month
afUserId It is used by Vimeo. It is used to collect informations about user actions on website. 2 years
_cc_id It is used by Vimeo and it is set by crwdcntrl.com. It is used to collect statistical information about users’ actions on website. 1 year
__tt_enable_cookie It is used by Vimeo. It is used to store users’ actions on website. 13 months
_ttp It is used by Vimeo. It is used to store users’ actions on website. 13 months

Functional

Cookie Name Purpose Expiration Date
SIDCC This cookie is used by Google Maps. The purpose of this cookie is to provide the identification of trusted web traffic. 1 year
__cf_bm This cookie is created by CloudFlare, but used with Vimeo service. It is used to read and filter requests from bots. 30 minutes
player This cookie is placed by Vimeo. It is used to save your settings before you play embedded Vimeo video. So next time you watch a Vimeo video, you will get your preferred settings back. 1 year
OptanonConsent This cookie is used by OneTrust and Vimeo. It is used to store cookie consent preferences. 1 year
OptanonAlertBoxClosed This cookie is used by OneTrust and Vimeo. It is used to determine whether a visitor should be shown the cookie banner. 1 year
sd_client _id This cookie is used by Vimeo. It stores the data about users current video settings and a personal identification token. 2 years
_sctr It is used by Vimeo and OneTrust. It stores information about categories of cookies the site uses. 1 month

Third Party Cookies

Third party cookies are cookies set by someone other than ABP for purposes such as collecting information on user behaviour, demographics, or personalised marketing. When using this ABP website, you may encounter embedded content such as Vimeo videos, or you may be directed to other websites for activities such as surveys or social media. We do not have control over the placement of cookies by third parties, even if you are directed to them from our website.

How to Manage Your Cookies.

If you want to manager your cookie settings, you can do this through your browser settings on your computer or other device you may be using to access our website. Most browsers will provide functionality that allows you to review and erase cookies, including those from ABP. Please note that this ABP website, may not function correctly without cookies.

The following websites also provide more information on cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, how to manage and delete them: www.allaboutcookies.org, or www.aboutcookies.org.