How We Use Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your registered account(s) and preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Cookies used

Necessary

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Name: __cfduid
Provider: zopim.com
Cookie purpose description: Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 1 year

Name: sfvUser
Provider: southfrancevillas.com
Cookie purpose description: Enable user login and registration.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session

Statistics

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Name: @@History/@@scroll|#
Provider: youtube.com
Cookie purpose description: Tracks users page scrolling state.
Type: HTML
Expiry: Persistent

Name: __utm.gif
Provider: google-analytics.com
Cookie purpose description: Google Analytics Tracking Code that logs details about the visitor's browser and computer.
Type: Pixel
Expiry: Session

Name: __utma
Provider: google-analytics.com
Cookie purpose description: Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 2 years

Name: _utmb
Provider: google-analytics.com
Cookie purpose description: Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session

Name: __utmc
Provider: google-analytics.com
Cookie purpose description: Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session

Name: __utmt
Provider: google-analytics.com
Cookie purpose description: Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session

Name: __utmz
Provider: google-analytics.com
Cookie purpose description: Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 6 months

Name: AWSALB
Provider: zopim.com
Cookie purpose description: Unclassified.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 6 days

Marketing

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertiser.

Name: __zlcmid
Provider: zopim.com
Cookie purpose description: Preserves users states across page requests.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: 1 year

Name: r/collect
Provider: doubleclick.net
Cookie purpose description: Collects data to measure efficiency of viewed or clicked ads and shows targeted ads.
Type: Pixel
Expiry: Session

Name: zte#
Provider: zopim.com
Cookie purpose description: Saves a Zopim Live Chat ID that recognises a device between visits during a chat session.
Type: HTTP
Expiry: Session