Cookies Policy
This Policy sets out the basis on which we, The Manufacturing Technology Centre Limited including any partly or wholly owned subsidiary, holding company or subsidiary of any holding company, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, www.the-mtc.org (our website).
Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third parties we may partner with may use cookies and your choices regarding cookies.
What are cookies? A cookie is a small data file which is sent to your browser and stored on your computer or other device. They help distinguish you from other users of our website, so that we can provide you with a good experience. They also help us to improve our website.
What types of cookies does our website use? Our website uses the following types of cookies:
1. Necessary and Non-Essential Cookies
Cookies can be classified as either ‘necessary’ or ‘non-essential’.
Necessary cookies are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include cookies that carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network. Necessary cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website.
Non-essential cookies are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of necessary cookies, and they will only be placed on your computer or device with your consent.
We use the following types of non-essential cookies:
a) Preference Cookies (sometimes called “Functionality Cookies”): these cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. They enable our website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region you live in
b) Statistics Cookies (sometimes called “Analytic Cookies” or “Performance Cookies”): these cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting anonymously on matters such as the number of visitors to our website and how visitors move around our website. This helps us improve the way our website works, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily
c) Marketing Cookies (sometimes called “Targeting Cookies”): these cookies are used to track visitors to our website, the pages you have visited and links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising displayed more relevant to your interests.
d) Unclassified Cookies: these are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies
2. Session and persistent cookies
Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.
Session cookies last for as long as your is browser open. They expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
3. First party and third party cookies
Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.
First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.
Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains. We have no control over these cookies.
4. What cookies does our website use
The table below sets out information about the individual cookies we use
| Cookie Subgroup | Cookie Type | Cookie Name | First Party or Third Party | Lifespan |
| Cookiebot | Necessary | CookieConsent | Third Party | 1 year |
| Necessary | Test_cookie | Third Party | 1 day | |
| Ar_debug | Third Party | 3 months | ||
| Rc::a | Third Party | Persistent | ||
| Rc::c | Third Party | Session | ||
| Preferences | maps/gen_204 | Third Party | Session | |
| Marketing | _ga | Third Party | 2 years | |
| _ga_# | Third Party | 2 years | ||
| Necessary | bcookie | Third Party | 1 year | |
| Li_gc | Third Party | 180 days | ||
| Preferences | lidc | Third Party | 1 day | |
| Usercentrics GmbH | Necessary | 1.gif | Third Party | Session |
| Vimeo | Necessary | _cf_bm | Third Party | 1 day |
| _cfuvid | Third Party | Session | ||
| www.the-mtc.org | Necessary | __next_preview_data | First party | 30 days |
| __prerender_bypass | First party | 30 days | ||
| insightsFilters | First party | Persistent | ||
| Adform | Marketing | C | Third party | 30 days |
| uid | Third party | 2 months | ||
| StackAdapt | Marketing | sa-user-id | Third Party | Persistent |
| sa-user-id [x2] | Third Party | 1 year | ||
| sa-user-id-v2 [x2] | Third Party | 1 year | ||
| sa-user-id-v2 | Third Party | Persistent | ||
| sa-user-id-v3 | Third Party | Persistent | ||
| sa-user-id-v3 [x2] | Third Party | 1 year |
Choices about cookies
You can choose to accept or reject your preferences in relation to non-essential cookies via our cookie banner and can update your choices at any time by clicking the cookie icon bottom left.
Most browsers will also allow you to block all cookies, including necessary cookies. Please note, however, that if you block all cookies, parts of our website and its functionality may not work or display properly.
For more information about cookies, including how to set your browser to reject them, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org. We also recommend that you take the time to read the ‘cookie code’ developed by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) for use by website operators to comply with the new rules.
Question and concerns
If you have any questions or concerns relating to our use of cookies, please contact us at marketing@the-mtc.org or The Manufacturing Technology Centre Ltd, Pilot Way, Ansty Park, Coventry CV7 9JU