Cookies Policy

Effective Date – 1st May, 2018

This policy sets out the basis on which we, Bento Bioworks Ltd, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, www.bento.bio (our Website).

‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so.

About Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.

Essential and Non-essential cookies

Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘Non-essential’.

Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

  • used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
  • strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).

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: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.

First & 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.

If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:

First Party Cookies

The following cookies are set directly by the website:

Name: wpgdprc-consent
Purpose: This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on www.bento.bio. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.
Expires: 1 year
Data sent to: UK
Categories: Essential
Cookie Set By: Website

Name:  woocommerce_items_in_cart, woocommerce_cart_hash, wp_woocommerce_session_
Purpose: These cookies are used by the online shop to allow it to function correctly. The final cookie (wp_woocommerce_session_) contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal information is stored within these cookies.
Expires: both expire when you close your browser
Data sent to: UK
Categories: Essential, Functional
Cookie Set By: Website

Name:  _ga, __gid, _utma, __utmb, __utmc, _utmv, _utmz,
Purpose: These are common performance cookies that many websites use. It allows us to collect anonymous information about how you and others use our website and helps us to improve the website.
For more details please read Google’s Analytics overview.
You can always opt-out of Google Analytics cookies by Google’s opt-out tool.
More privacy information:http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Expires: Session – 2 years
Data sent to:  USA
Categories: Non-essential
Cookie Set By: Google Analytics

Third Party Cookies

The following cookies are placed on your device by third party website domains.

Cookie Set By: doubleclick.net (Google Remarketing)
Name: id _drt_ , DSID, IDE, id, test_cookie, r/collect
Purpose: Tracking cookies used by Google to improve your online experience, including the display of more relevant ads. This cookie is used for re-targeting, optimisation, reporting and attribution of online adverts.
For more privacy information, please visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
For more details please read Google’s Analytics overview.

You can always opt-out of Google remarketing cookies by;

  1. Google’s opt-out tool
  2. If you have a Google account this is the double click opt-out page 
  3. Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Expires: 2 days – 2 years
Data sent to:  USA
Categories: Non-essential, Marketing

Cookie Set By: Google AdWords
Name: ads/ga-audiences
Purpose: Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites.
Expires: Session
Data sent to: USA
Categories: Non-essential, Marketing

Cookie Set By: Google AdWords
Name: ads/user-lists/
Purpose: Used by Google AdWords to engage visitors based on audience/target lists
Expires: Session
Data sent to: USA
Categories: Non-essential, Marketing

Cookie Set By: Google AdWords
Name: _gac_ <property-id>
Purpose: With AdWords auto-tagging enabled, this cookie stores campaign information in order to provide AdWords with a way to measure the interactions visitors have with the website. Analytics writes campaign information to the _gac cookie when a user opens a page on the website after clicking one of our AdWords ads.
Expires: Session
Data sent to: USA
Categories: Non-essential, Marketing

Cookie Set By: Google AdWords Conversion
Name: gtag
Purpose: Google uses cookies to help businesses that buy ads from Google determine how many people who click their ads end up purchasing their products. The conversion tracking cookie is set on your browser only when you click an ad delivered by Google.
More privacy information: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Expires: 30 days
Data sent to: USA
Categories: Non-essential, Marketing

Cookie Set By: Google Analytics
Name: AMP_TOKEN
Purpose:  AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, a way of delivering faster loading pages on mobile. This token is used to retrieve a client site ID to help deliver these pages.
Further information: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage?hl=en-US
Expires: 30 seconds – 1 year
Data sent to: USA
Categories: Non-essential, Marketing

Cookie Set By: Google reCAPTCHA
Name: PREF, NID, HSID, APISID, SID
Purpose:  These cookies are used by Google tohelp protect this Website from “spambots”. Used on filling out forms. Without these cookies we would not be able to send the contact form to us.
Further privacy information: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Expires: 30 days
Data sent to: Browser, data and time requests to USA
Categories: Essential, Functional

Cookie Set By: YouTube
Name: PREF*VSC*VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE*remote_sid*
Purpose: YouTube is used by the website to store and show video content. These cookies are set by YouTube to track usage of its services. The YouTube Cookies are only installed when you press play.
Expires: Between 1 day and 1 year
Data sent to: USA
Categories: Non-essential, Marketing

Cookie Set By: Calendly
Name: calendly_session_
Purpose: Calendly is used by the website to show a scheduling calendar. These cookies are set by Calendly to enable its services. The Calendly Cookies are only installed when you open a scheduling calendar modal. You can find Calendly’s privacy policy here.
Expires: Expires after 14 days
Data sent to: USA
Categories:  Functional

Cookie Set By: Mailchimp
Name: _AVESTA_ENVIRONMENT, MC_USER_PROFILE, _ga, mp_, OptanonAlertBoxClosed, __zlcmid, MC_USER_INFO
Purpose: These cookies enable Mailchimp to store a visitor’s email address if the they wish to receive our newsletters and to demonstrate how effective the newsletters have been.
Expires: Session
Data sent to: UK
Categories: Non-essential, Preferences, Marketing


Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interests: ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.

Google Analytics Cookies

Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/

How to opt in or out from analytical cookies:

To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business.

Targeting (Or Advertising) Cookies:

Targeting (or advertising) cookies record information about your visit to and use of our website, for advertising purposes.

Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from advertising cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation)

Legitimate interests: displaying advertisements to you about our products and services. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of advertising cookies please see our privacy policy, which is available here.

Web Beacons (Tracking Pixels)

Web beacons are used in our marketing emails and on our website. Web beacons are small GIF image files which enable us to track your receipt of our marketing emails, how often you view our adverts or website pages, your location, IP address and browser information. Web beacons are activated whenever you open a marketing email or access a page on our website which contains a web beacon.

How to opt in or out from Web beacons

You can opt out of our use of web beacons in our marketing emails by unsubscribing from our newsletter.

You can block web beacons via Privacy Badger and Ghostery

You can block Facebook web beacons by installing a browser add-on tool called ‘Disconnect Facebook pixel and FB tracking’. This will stop Facebook tracking you on third party websites. You can install the tool here:

European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Tool

You can opt out of Facebook and other companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe from showing you interest based ads by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com, selecting your country, clicking “Your Ad Choices”, then locating Facebook (and any other companies you want to block) and selecting the “Off” option.

Legal basis for processing: we process the information we gather from the use of web beacons in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).

Legitimate interest: To analyse the effectiveness of our email marketing and for profiling and remarketing purposes on the website. Further details available here.

How to Accept or Reject Cookies

There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and web beacons.

You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.

You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org

Browser settings

You can accept or reject some or all cookies via adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below explain how to change your browser settings for the most commonly used web browsers:

Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine.

Existing cookies

To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.

Google Ad settings

You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google’s ad settings page here and by:

  • unticking the button entitled ‘Also use Google Account activity and information to personalize ads on these websites and apps and store that data in your Google Account’; and
  • switching the ‘Ads Personalisation’ setting off (i.e. by ensuring the switch at the top of the page is set to the left/grey and not the right/blue).

Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996

Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here.

Other Links to External Websites

Visitors are provided with the option to navigate to a variety of external websites where we have a presence. When the visitor selects the option to view the content from these websites, they are taken away from the website and to the other site, where a variety of cookies may be used throughout the visit. We are not responsible for any cookies used once the visitor has left this website.

Contact

If you have any questions about this cookie policy or our treatment of your personal data, please get in touch with us. You will find our details on our contact page.