Cookie Policy
By using the Site, you agree to follow and be bound by the following cookie policy concerning your use of the Site (“Cookie Policy”). We may revise this policy at any time without notice to you.
Definitions
Users – means the users of this Site collectively
We/us/our – means Liberum an independent Medical Education Provider
Site – means https://ias-education.athero.org
Cookies – means small text files which the Site places on your computer's hard drive to store information about your visit to out their site and to identify your computer. For the purposes of this document, we include HTML5 local storage files under the term “Cookies” as they are a method by which the Site locally stores named key/value pairs inside your web browser.
You – means a user of this Site
What are cookies?
Our Site uses a technology called “cookies”. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer or other access device, which we use for the following purposes:
- Making your experience more efficient, faster and easier: by remembering your preferences, like preferred language, display and other settings, maintaining your session, and for authentication purposes. This helps us to provide you with a better user experience. These cookies are also referred to as Session-ID cookies, authentication cookies, and User Interface customization cookies
- Gain useful knowledge about how the Site is used: by collecting information about the number of visitors, helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. This cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies are also referred to as analytics cookies. For this purpose, we use Google analytics which means that Google will also have access to this information (including your IP address briefly in memory only 1). Google Analytics is Google’s free web analytics tool that helps Site owners to understand how their visitors engage with their Site. It collects information anonymously and reports Site trends without identifying individual visitors. For more information on Google analytics, please visit https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.
- Evaluate utilisation of the various programmes on the Site and report aggregated and anonymised data to sponsors from the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industries, academia and public and private healthcare providers (including the NHS), so that we can evaluate the use and effectiveness of Liberum programmes. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and also allows us to improve it.
Your web browser can be set to manage cookies and even to reject them. However, do bear in mind that if you set your browser to automatically reject cookies, your user experience when visiting our Site will not be the same: your preferences may not be remembered, some functionality may be lost and you may not be able to access certain areas or features of the Site.
For more information about cookies, types of cookies and how to manage cookies, including how to block them and delete them, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
The Cookies We Set
We use cookies for a variety of reasons. The table below details the cookies that we set:
Cookie Name Optional/
Strictly Necessary2
Description xsrf-token Strictly Necessary Cookie used to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). It is industry best practice to implement measures to prevent CSRF. This cookie expires when your browser session expires (120 minutes). ias-hcp Strictly Necessary This Site is intended for Healthcare Professionals only. This cookie is set once you confirm you are a Healthcare Professional. The cookie maintains the confirmation that you are a Healthcare Professional for 5 years. ias_session Strictly Necessary This cookie is set when you view any pages on the Site. It maintains your signed in state and is used by the Site to present information tailored to your user. This cookie expires when your browser session expires (120 minutes). Two keys are stored in HTML5 local storage: “allowCookies” and “cookieStateConfirmDate” Optional These HTML5 local storage keys store your acknowledgement of the cookie banner by clicking the banner’s “Close” button. This acknowledgement will expire after 30 days.
1We use Google Analytics IP address anonymisation which means that at no time is the full IP address written to disk on Google servers as all anonymisation happens in memory nearly instantaneously after the request has been received.
2Strictly necessary cookies are essential for the functionality and features of this Site
By using the Site, you agree to follow and be bound by the following cookie policy concerning your use of the Site (“Cookie Policy”). We may revise this policy at any time without notice to you.
Definitions
Users – means the users of this Site collectively
We/us/our – means Liberum an independent Medical Education Provider
Site – means https://ias-education.athero.org
Cookies – means small text files which the Site places on your computer's hard drive to store information about your visit to out their site and to identify your computer. For the purposes of this document, we include HTML5 local storage files under the term “Cookies” as they are a method by which the Site locally stores named key/value pairs inside your web browser.
You – means a user of this Site
What are cookies?
Our Site uses a technology called “cookies”. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer or other access device, which we use for the following purposes:
- Making your experience more efficient, faster and easier: by remembering your preferences, like preferred language, display and other settings, maintaining your session, and for authentication purposes. This helps us to provide you with a better user experience. These cookies are also referred to as Session-ID cookies, authentication cookies, and User Interface customization cookies
- Gain useful knowledge about how the Site is used: by collecting information about the number of visitors, helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. This cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies are also referred to as analytics cookies. For this purpose, we use Google analytics which means that Google will also have access to this information (including your IP address briefly in memory only 1). Google Analytics is Google’s free web analytics tool that helps Site owners to understand how their visitors engage with their Site. It collects information anonymously and reports Site trends without identifying individual visitors. For more information on Google analytics, please visit https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.
- Evaluate utilisation of the various programmes on the Site and report aggregated and anonymised data to sponsors from the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industries, academia and public and private healthcare providers (including the NHS), so that we can evaluate the use and effectiveness of Liberum programmes. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and also allows us to improve it.
Your web browser can be set to manage cookies and even to reject them. However, do bear in mind that if you set your browser to automatically reject cookies, your user experience when visiting our Site will not be the same: your preferences may not be remembered, some functionality may be lost and you may not be able to access certain areas or features of the Site.
For more information about cookies, types of cookies and how to manage cookies, including how to block them and delete them, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
The Cookies We Set
We use cookies for a variety of reasons. The table below details the cookies that we set:
| Cookie Name | Optional/ Strictly Necessary2 | Description |
| xsrf-token | Strictly Necessary | Cookie used to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). It is industry best practice to implement measures to prevent CSRF. This cookie expires when your browser session expires (120 minutes). |
| ias-hcp | Strictly Necessary | This Site is intended for Healthcare Professionals only. This cookie is set once you confirm you are a Healthcare Professional. The cookie maintains the confirmation that you are a Healthcare Professional for 5 years. |
| ias_session | Strictly Necessary | This cookie is set when you view any pages on the Site. It maintains your signed in state and is used by the Site to present information tailored to your user. This cookie expires when your browser session expires (120 minutes). |
| Two keys are stored in HTML5 local storage: “allowCookies” and “cookieStateConfirmDate” | Optional | These HTML5 local storage keys store your acknowledgement of the cookie banner by clicking the banner’s “Close” button. This acknowledgement will expire after 30 days. |
1We use Google Analytics IP address anonymisation which means that at no time is the full IP address written to disk on Google servers as all anonymisation happens in memory nearly instantaneously after the request has been received.