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We use cookies for a variety of reasons as detailed below, and where required by local regulation, we seek your consent prior to a cookie being stored or downloaded to your computer. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is therefore recommended that you allow and/or leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

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If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. In creating an account with us, we may also seek your consent prior to a cookie being stored or downloaded to your computer in certain jurisdictions. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, however, in some cases they may remain subsequently to remember your site preferences when logged out. We use cookies when you are logged in so that the website recognises you. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in. This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

When you submit data through to a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

In some cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter throughout this site. This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and improve your experience. These cookies may track behaviours such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page. We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, the following social media sites, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Tumblr and Twitter, will set cookies throughout our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

Below is a list of main cookies set by the automotive Diamonds website and what they are used for.

1. Cookie Name
2. Description
3. ASP.NET_SessionId

General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft.NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.

This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default and distinguishes between users and sessions. It’s used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The lifespan of the cookie can be customised by website owners.

This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. Any activity by a user within the 30 minute life span will count as a single visit, even if the user leaves and then returns to the site. A return after 30 minutes will count as a new visit by a returning visitor.

This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. It is not used in most sites but is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code known as Urchin. In the older version, this was used in combination with the __utmb cookie to identify new sessions/visits for returning visitors. When used by Google Analytics, this is always a Session cookie which is destroyed when the user closes their browser. The main purpose of this cookie is: Performance

This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site - so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. The cookie has a life span of 6 months and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.