Cookies are small text files containing amounts of information that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit and which your computer or mobile device downloads. 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. The information in cookies can be used to track your internet usage. Under the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications of 12 July 2002, all visitors to a website with cookies must have access to information stating that the website contains cookies and the purpose for which cookies are used. They must also approve such cookies being used.

We use four different types of cookies:

  1. Strictly necessary cookies. Strictly necessary cookies allow core website functionality such as user login and account management. The website cannot be used properly without strictly necessary cookies.
  2. Analytical cookies. Analytical cookies are used to see how visitors use the website, eg. analytics cookies. Those cookies cannot be used to directly identify a certain visitor.
  3. Functionality cookies. Functionality cookies are used to remember visitor information on the website, eg. language, timezone, enhanced content.
  4. Unclassified cookies. Unclassified cookies are cookies that do not belong to any other category or are in the process of categorization.

The tables below explains the cookies we use and why:

Strictly necessary
Cookie report
Name Provider / Domain Expiration Description
csrftoken live-fleet.bs-shipmanagement.com 12 months 4 days This cookie is associated with the Django web development platform for Python. It is designed to help protect a site against at particular type of software attack on web forms.
CookieScriptConsent www.bs-shipmanagement.com 1 month This cookie is used by Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences. It is necessary for Cookie-Script.com cookie banner to work properly.
__RequestVerificationToken applicant-portal.bs-shipmanagement.com Session This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser.
ci_session mtc.bs-shipmanagement.com 2 hours Cookie normally associated with the CodeIgniter framework for building PHP based applications. Usually used to maintain a user state during a browser session for consistancy of user experience. By default the cookie is destroyed when the browser session ends, in which case it can be Strictly Necessary. However, it can optionally be stored in a database and be used for tracking users or other purposes, in such cases a category of Strictly Necessary will probably not apply.
csrftoken www.bs-shipmanagement.com 12 months 4 days This cookie is associated with the Django web development platform for Python. It is designed to help protect a site against at particular type of software attack on web forms.
_GRECAPTCHA www.google.com 6 months Google reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis.
Analytical cookies
Cookie report
Name Provider / Domain Expiration Description
test_cookie .doubleclick.net 15 minutes This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies.
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample www.bs-shipmanagement.com 2 minutes This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.
_gcl_au .bs-shipmanagement.com 3 months Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services
IDE .doubleclick.net 1 year This cookie is set by Doubleclick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
_hjIncludedInSessionSample www.bs-shipmanagement.com 2 minutes This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE .youtube.com 6 months This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface.
_ga .bs-shipmanagement.com 2 years 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.
_hjSessionUser_2900541 .bs-shipmanagement.com 1 year
_hjFirstSeen .bs-shipmanagement.com 30 minutes The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information.
YSC .youtube.com Session This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos.
loc .addthis.com 1 year 1 month Stores the visitors geolocation to record location of sharer
_gat_gtag_UA_45152752_2 .bs-shipmanagement.com 1 minute This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate).
_hjSession_2900541 .bs-shipmanagement.com 30 minutes
_gat_gtag_UA_177391453_1 .bs-shipmanagement.com 1 minute This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to limit requests (throttle request rate).
uvc .addthis.com 1 year 1 month Tracks how often a user interacts with AddThis
_gid .bs-shipmanagement.com 1 day This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews.
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress .bs-shipmanagement.com 30 minutes The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information.
Functionality
Cookie report
Name Provider / Domain Expiration Description
__atuvc mtc.bs-shipmanagement.com 1 year 1 month This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. It stores an updated page share count.
__atuvs mtc.bs-shipmanagement.com 30 minutes This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. This is believed to be a new cookie from AddThis which is not yet documented, but has been categorised on the assumption it serves a similar purpose to other cookies set by the service.
Unclassified
Cookie report
Name Provider / Domain Expiration Description
DEVICE_INFO .youtube.com 6 months
cf_use_ob bs-shipmanagement.com 45 seconds
__cflb applicant-portal.bs-shipmanagement.com 23 hours
Analytics tools for the website

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies" to help us analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google. To find out more about Google Analytics, Google's privacy policy and opting out of its cookies please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

How to avoid cookies

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