Cookie information
Brickset uses cookies for a variety of purposes. This page lists the cookies that are used and what they are for.
The information on this page is provided towards compliance of EU Directive 2002/58 Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendment) Regulations 2011.
Brickset does not currently ask for your permission before sending you cookies but instead provides the information below, prominently linked to from every page on the site, so as to gain your 'informed consent' to use them.
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Brickset cookies and 3rd party cookies
When you browse Brickset, you may receive Brickset cookies from Brickset.com and Bricksetforum.com, and from 3rd party sites, such as Amazon and eBay.
Brickset does not carry advertising from ad. networks so you will not receive any 'behavioural retargeting' cookies that can have a nasty habit of tracking you as you surf the web and show you ads related to sites you've just visited. It is this kind of annoying behaviour that the regulations are trying to control.
You can opt out of receiving some of the 3rd party cookies and information on how to do so is provided below.
Affiliate marketing cookies
Brickset is free for everyone to use, but it costs time and money to run. It is funded by affiliate, or performance, marketing. Cookies are essential for this to function. When you click on links to Amazon, eBay and LEGO.com, for example, you may receive cookies that help the site remember that you've visited from Brickset so that your activity (buying or bidding on things) is attributed to Brickset, which then receives a small commission.
You can find out more about performance marketing and the way it uses cookies at the Internet Advertising Bureau's site, Online Performance Marketing, Cookies and You.
Types of cookies in use
When cookies are created they are given a lifespan. They either live for the length of your browser session, or for longer:
- Session cookies are created when you start a browser session at Brickset, and deleted when you end it.
- Persistent cookies are created for analytical purposes, or in response to actions or choices you take at Brickset and are saved so that, for example, your preferences are set the next time you visit the site.
The cookies created by Brickset fall into four categories:
- Essential, or 'strictly necessary' cookies are needed for the site to function.
- Functional cookies are used to support site features, such as your viewing preferences on the set listings. They tend to be persistent so that, for your convenience, your choices are remembered next time you visit the site.
- Analytical cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use the site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
- 3rd party cookies are created by sites other than Brickset and are used to support features such as affiliate marketing and social bookmarking.
Detailed list of cookies
The table below lists the cookies you may be sent as you use Brickset and provides links for more information including, in some cases, how to opt out of receiving them.
| Domain | Cookie name | Type | Lifespan | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| addthis.com | uid | 3rd party | Persistent | AddThis social network bookmarking
More information/opt-out |
| addthis.com | uvc | 3rd party | Persistent | AddThis social network bookmarking
More information/opt-out |
| amazon-adsystem.com | ad-id | 3rd party | Persistent | Amazon sidebar product listing |
| amazon-adsystem.com | ad-privacy | 3rd party | Persistent | Amazon sidebar product listing |
| brickset.com | .ASPXAUTH | Functional | Persistent | 'Remember me' cookie when logging in |
| brickset.com | __qca | Analytical | Persistent | Google analytics
More information/opt-out |
| brickset.com | __utma | Analytical | Persistent | Google analytics
More information/opt-out |
| brickset.com | __utmb | Analytical | Persistent | Google analytics
More information/opt-out |
| brickset.com | __utmc | Analytical | Session | Google analytics
More information/opt-out |
| brickset.com | __utmz | Analytical | Persistent | Google analytics
More information/opt-out |
| brickset.com | ActualCountry | Functional | Persistent | A code indicating the country you are browsing from |
| brickset.com | ASP.NET_SessionId | Essential | Session | Session management
More information/opt-out |
| brickset.com | Browse | Functional | Persistent | Preferred view of the browse page tables |
| brickset.com | forumAccept | Functional | Persistent | Flag indicating your acceptance of the forum rules |
| brickset.com | minDiscount | Functional | Persistent | Amazon Bargain Watch preference |
| brickset.com | pageLength | Functional | Persistent | Page length of the set listings |
| brickset.com | PreferredCountry | Functional | Persistent | A code indicating the country you want to appear to be browing from |
| brickset.com | reducedOnly | Functional | Persistent | Amazon Bargain Watch preference |
| brickset.com | ShowUS | Functional | Persistent | European Amazon shopper preference |
| brickset.com | sortColumn | Functional | Persistent | Sort column in the set listings |
| brickset.com | SortOrder | Functional | Persistent | Sort order in the set listings |
| brickset.com | view | Functional | Persistent | Preferred view of the set listings |
| brickset.com | wantedOnly | Functional | Persistent | Amazon Bargain Watch preference |
| bricksetforum.com | __qca | Analytical | Persistent | Google analytics
More information/opt-out |
| bricksetforum.com | __utma | Analytical | Persistent | Google analytics
More information/opt-out |
| bricksetforum.com | __utmb | Analytical | Persistent | Google analytics
More information/opt-out |
| bricksetforum.com | __utmc | Analytical | Session | Google analytics
More information/opt-out |
| bricksetforum.com | __utmz | Analytical | Persistent | Google analytics
More information/opt-out |
| bricksetforum.com | __vnOz0 | Functional | Persistent | Forum state management
More information/opt-out |
| bricksetforum.com | __vnOz1 | Functional | Persistent | Forum state management
More information/opt-out |
| bricksetforum.com | vf_brickset_2S7TL | Functional | Persistent | Forum state management
More information/opt-out |
| bricksetforum.com | vf_brickset_2S7TL-Volatile | Functional | Session | Forum state management
More information/opt-out |
| bricksetforum.com | vf_brickset_2S7TL-Vv | Functional | Persistent | Forum state management
More information/opt-out |
| bricksetforum.com | vf_brickset_2S7TL-Vv | Functional | Persistent | Forum state management
More information/opt-out |
| ebay.com | npii | 3rd party | Persistent | eBay sidebar listing |
| google.com | PREF | 3rd party | Persistent | Google analytics
More information/opt-out |
| quantserve.com | mc | 3rd party, Analytical | Persistent | Quantcast analytics
More information/opt-out |
| skimresources.com | skimGUID | 3rd party | Persistent | SkimLinks in the forum
More information/opt-out |
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