We are The International Wine & Spirit Competition Limited (company number: 00720550) (“IWSC”, “we”, “our” and “us”). We operate the website www.iwsc.net (“website”).
IWSC tries to give the visitors to our website the best experience possible. One of the ways we achieve this is by using cookies. Our website cookies distinguish you from other users of our website and also allow us to improve our site.
Cookies are small files of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device if you agree when you visit our website. These may be cookies, web pixels, beacons or other web files and will all be referred to as “cookies” in this policy.
Cookies are used on websites to help visitors navigate around them effectively. They are also used to perform certain functions within a website, such as displaying certain content to you and remembering login details.
Cookies also provide information to us so we can analyse visitor behaviour patterns, for example, how many visitors view a particular page so we can improve our website. They can also be used to deliver relevant advertisements to you (both on the website and on third party sites).
We use the following cookies:
You can find out more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.
| Cookie title | Purpose | Expiry (following connection) |
|---|---|---|
| Iwsc_PHPSESSION | Used to ensure the integrity of the logged-in account and for ecommerce transactions | Session |
| Cookie title | Purpose | Expiry (following connection) |
|---|---|---|
| lang | Used to store your language preferences and serve content in the stored language. | Session |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube uses this to try and estimate your bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 6 months |
| wd | This cookie stores the browser window dimensions and is used by Facebook to optimise the rendering of the website page. | 1 week |
| YSC | Used by YouTube to track views of embedded videos on our website. | Session |
| sb | Used by Facebook to support social sharing and integration of Facebook services. | 2 years |
| Cookie title | Purpose | Expiry (following connection) |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to generate statistical data in respect of how the visitor uses our website. | 2 years |
| _gat | Used to help us manage the number of users that access and use our website at any time to enhance performance. | 1 year |
| _gid | Used to generate statistical data in respect of how you use our website. | 24 hours |
| Cookie title | Purpose | Expiry (following connection) |
|---|---|---|
| 1P_JAR | Used by Google to generate data in respect of how you use the website and any advertising that you may have seen before visiting the website. | 1 month |
| APISID | Used by Google DoubleClick to build a profile of your interests and show relevant advertisements to you on other websites. | 2 years |
| c_user | Used by Facebook to identify whether you hold a Facebook account and, if so, are logged in. | 1 month |
| datr | Used by Facebook to identify the web browser being used to connect to Facebook independent of the logged in user. | 2 years |
| fr | Used by Facebook to deliver relevant advertisement to you when browsing Facebook. | 3 months |
| GPS | Used by YouTube to register a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | 1 day |
| HSID, SAPISID, SID, SSID | Used by Google to identify how you use the website and any advertising you may have seen before visiting the website. | 2 years |
| IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report your actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an advertisement and to present targeted advertisements to you. | 1 year |
| locale | Used by Facebook to identify your language and country. | 1 week |
| LOGIN_INFO | Used by YouTube to collect usage information for YouTube hosted videos. | 2 years |
| NID | Used by Google DoubleClick to help build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other websites. | 6 months |
| PREF | Used by Google DoubleClick to build a profile of interests to show relevant adverts on other sites. It works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. | 8 months |
| SIDCC | Used by Google to identify how you use the website and any advertising you may have seen before when visiting the website. | 1 month |
| spin | Used by Facebook to measure, optimize and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. | 2 days |
| xs | Used by Facebook to deliver relevant advertisements to you when browsing Facebook. | 1 month |
We may change the cookies we use from time to time and so we recommend that you review this cookies policy and your cookies settings regularly.
In addition, many of the above cookies are controlled by third parties who may change how the cookie works and its expiry date without our knowledge. Although we use all reasonable efforts to ensure our cookies policy is up to date, we recommend you also review the relevant third party’s cookie policy to obtain further details of the cookies set by them.
Your internet browser also allows you to manage cookies. You will be able to remove and disable any cookies at any time through the settings in your internet browser. The method for doing this will be different depending on your chosen browser. Please see the relevant links below for further information:
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
Opera: https://blogs.opera.com/news/2015/08/how-to-manage-cookies-in-opera/
For more information about how to manage cookies visit www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.
[In addition to managing cookies through your internet browser, you will be able to manage cookies through the cookie pop-up presented to you when you first navigate to the website.]
Please note that disabling any necessary cookies may cause our website to function incorrectly.
Please note – this information applies only to this website and not to other websites to which this site links.
Where we have incorporated third party platforms or features into our website (such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook) such third party providers may set a cookie on your device when you access our website or follow such link. You should view their privacy policies and cookies policies for further information.
You should be aware that, although not all cookies collect personal data some cookies (particularly advertising cookies) may follow your browsing history to create a profile of you and your behaviours and preferences to seek to present appropriate advertisements to you. Please see our privacy policy for further information: https://iwsc.net/privacy-policy
If you would like any further information about how we use cookies, please contact us using one of the following options:
Last updated: 12 December 2019