At Everest we use cookies to find out how visitors are using the site so we can make the experience as useful and relevant as possible for you and future visitors. These small bits of data inform us of how you used the site, the pages you visit and spent time on and those that you missed so we can improve them. We do not use them to collect personal information about you.
A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer, tablet or mobile phone, which enables a website to identify your computer as you view different pages. Cookies allow websites and applications to store your preferences in order to count the number of visitors, their time on the page, present relevant content, options or functions that are specific to you. To find out more you may like to read more on this external link http://www.whatarecookies.com/. This is an independent site and we are not responsible for the data contained we just provide it for useful background.
You can of course choose to reject or delete our cookies at any time. This is done in the browser settings you are using. Below are links to the popular browser settings to help you change as you wish.
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Expiry |
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| ASP.NET_SessionId | Used to identify a user through their entire visit to the website. | Session |
| ARRAffinity | Set by websites that run on Windows Azure cloud platform to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. | Session |
| EverestReferralCookie | Contains information about how you were referred to the site. This helps us provide you with more relevant information. | 29 days |
| Privacy_cookie | Used to store a user’s cookie acceptance for our website. | 1 year |
| _gcl_au | Used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website. | 3 months |
| _ga | Used by Google Analytics to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years |
| _gid | Used by Google Analytics to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | 1 day |
| _gat_UA-# | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | 1 minute |
| _dc_gtm_UA-# | This cookie is used by Google Tag Manager to support Google Analytics on the site. It helps us monitor the use and performance of our website. | 1 day |
| test_cookie | Used by Google DoubleClick to check whether the user's browser supports cookies. | 1 day |
| IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. | 1 year |
| ads/ga-audiences | Used by Google AdWords to re-enable visitors to a website who are likely to convert to customers. This is based on user behaviour across web pages. | Session |
| pagead/1p-user-list/# | Generated by Google pagead dynamic marketing to track events such as conversions or other meaningful user interactions. | Session |
| collect | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Session |
| MUID | Used by Microsoft as a unique identifier. The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft scripts. The purpose of this cookie is to synchronize the ID across many different Microsoft domains to enable user tracking. | 1 year |
| _uetsid | This cookie is used by Microsoft Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | 1 day |
| _uetvid | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | 16 days |
| Fr | The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisements to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | 3 months |
| _fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisements when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website. | 3 months |
| _pin_unauth | Used by Pinterest to track the usage of services. | 1 year |
| v3 | Used by Pinterest to track the usage of services. | Session |
| _pk_id.# | Used by Tag4ARM to store the visitor ID. This identifies whether a user has previously visited the website or not. | 1 year |
| _pk_ses.# | Used by Tag4ARM to store the session of the visitor. After every 30 minutes, if there is no visitor activity within 30 minutes, then visit will be considered as new after visitor action. | 1 day |
| _muu | Set by Magnetise Media Limited to show third party ads as an overlay on the site. | 1 year |
| _mst | Set by Magnetise Media Limited to show third party ads as an overlay on the site. | 1 day |
| _mi | Set by Magnetise Media Limited to show third party ads as an overlay on the site. | 1 day |
| _mdisp | Set by Magnetise Media Limited to show third party ads as an overlay on the site. | 1 day |
| _magnetLast | Set by Magnetise Media Limited to show third party ads as an overlay on the site. | 1 day |
| _magnet2517 | Set by Magnetise Media Limited to show third party ads as an overlay on the site. | 28 days |
| cnx_visitor_livechat-everest | This is a functional cookie which allows you to make use of Online Chat functionality. | Session |