When you interact with HomeBid Limited, we try to make that experience simple and meaningful. When you visit Homebidding.com our web server sends a cookie to your computer. Cookies are small pieces of information which are issued to your computer when you visit a website and which store and sometimes track information about your use of the website. For example, cookies are used to personalise web search engines and to store shopping lists of items a user has selected while browsing through a virtual shopping mall. A number of cookies we use last only for the duration of your web session and expire when you close your browser. Other cookies are used to remember you when you return to the website and will last for longer.
We use cookies to:
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set. You can also learn more about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block cookies using different types of browser. Please note, however, that by blocking or deleting cookies used on the website, you may not be able to take full advantage of the website.
Cookies used by HomeBidding can be largely categorised as follows:
| Cookie type | Cookie purpose |
| Necessary |
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around websites and use the websites’ features, such as accessing secure websites or secure areas of websites. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, such as identifying you as being logged in to the website throughout your visit, cannot be provided. |
| Functionality |
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your preferred language) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. Other examples include cookies that keep track of your progress when filling online application forms. |
| Performance |
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. |
| Targeting Cookies |
Targeting cookies remember individual websites you have visited and help HomeBid Limited to present relevant and targeted online advertising to you. Targeting cookies may be placed on your machine when you visit the website. When targeting cookies have been placed on your device, they can be recognised by subsequent websites you visit, and this allows those sites to present targeted HomeBid Limited and third party advertising to you. While targeting cookies can track your visits around different websites, the information collected is anonymous. |
| Cookie | Third Party | Description | Duration |
| IP_Jar |
Google Advertising |
These cookies are used to collect site statistics and track conversion rates. |
30 days |
| ANID |
Google Advertising |
These cookies are used to collect site statistics and track conversion rates. |
2 years |
| CONSENT |
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This cookie is used to modify how google products behave before and after website visitors make their consent choices |
2 years |
| NID |
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This cookie is used to remember your preferences and other information |
1 year |
| _Secure-3PAPISID |
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Builds a profile of your interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting |
2 years |
| _Secure-3PSID |
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Builds a profile of your interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting |
2 years |
| _Secure-3PSIDCC |
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Builds a profile of your interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting |
2 years |
| ci-sessions |
- |
This cookie assigns a unique ID to your session to connect it to the server and for other internal processes required throughout the course of your session |
30 mins |
| Cookiecontrol |
- |
This cookie aims to prevent cookies being placed on a user’s computer until they have given their explicit consent via an affirmative act |
1 day |
| cookieControlPrefs |
- |
This cookie remembers previously indicated preferences |
1 year |
In addition to cookies, tracking GIFS and web beacons may be set by us or third parties in respect of your use of the website. Web beacons support the delivery of cookies and help determine the number of times a page on the website has been viewed. Tracking GIFS are small image files within the content of the website or the body of our reports so we or third parties can understand which parts of the website are visited and whether particular content is of interest.
Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you and so we provide links below to popular manufacturers instructions on how you can do this. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website use (“third party cookies”), or those from specific websites.
This cookie police forms part of our overall privacy policy