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Cookie policy
Some of the features on the Emerald websites require the use of "cookies".
Cookies enhance your experience using our website and help to personalize the service you receive. Cookies are used:
- to hold your search history
- to hold your temporary session marked list
- to synchronize services if you use some other Emerald websites such as Emerald ManagementFirst
- to analyze how you arrived at the site and the pathways you take through it
- to enable you to share Emerald articles and pages via your social networking accounts.
All the cookies are summarized below.
There are a number of browsers and different versions of each browser which all act in different ways. You can visit www.aboutcookies.org to find details for various browsers on:
- how to stop cookies being stored
- how to enable session cookies
- how to delete cookies if they have already been stored.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerald session cookie |
PHPSESSID |
Used to maintain login throughout a single session, also to toggle occasional site settings e.g. language, text-only (visually impaired) or full graphical view. |
First party |
| Emerald search history cookie | searchhistory | Holds the user's last 10 searches for use in the search history display. | First party |
| Emerald session marked list cookie | markedlist | Holds the content items (up to 10) of a user's session marked list. All Emerald cookies are stored in memory and deleted when the browser is closed. |
First party |
| WebTrends |
WT_FPC | WebTrends cookie released by Emerald site. WebTrends is used to track user activity on the Emerald site only and subsequent analysis enables us to improve content and service delivery. | First party |
| Google Analytics | _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz |
These track number and duration of visits to the Emerald website as well as details and keywords of searches that led the user to the site. | First party |
| ShareThis | _stid _unam _uset |
The Emerald website allows users, particularly students and academics, to post links to Emerald content on their social networking profiles via the popular ShareThis service. ShareThis cookies record which sites and pages have been “shared” and advertisements that users see on subsequent sites may reflect this. On clicking the ShareThis icon, users can opt out of any tracking by ShareThis (a further cookie, st_optout, records this). | Third party |
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