Cookie Policy
Cookie PolicyPlease select which type of cookie you consent to on our site. These settings are automatically saved and you may use the back button on your browser or click the FreeBMD logo in order to go back to the main page. Scroll down for further information:
Third-party cookies have been carefully chosen for both advertising and analytics/performance. Please note that when switched off, advertisements will still appear but will not use any of your data and will therefore be less relevant to you. You can adjust your advertising preferences more finely here: https://adssettings.google.com
Income from advertising helps to pay for FreeBMD and enables us to keep it free to use. if you would rather not agree to such cookies, please do consider offering a donation instead.
We use Google analytics in order to help us understand how the site is used and to help guide improvements.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites when you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Several of the cookies we use are essential for parts of the website to operate, in particular our searches. You may delete and block all cookies from our website (see below), but if you do, parts of the website will not function correctly.
The cookies used on this website have been categorised using best practice. A list of all the cookies used on this website by category is set out below. Cookies on our website will not be used for any purpose other than the ones stated.
It is important to note that by using our site, you agree to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Policy. You may return to this page at any time in order to change your consent relating to non-necessary, third-party cookies which relate to targeting and analytics.
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, such as consistent search results, cannot be provided.
Third-party cookies have been carefully chosen and used for both analytics and advertising.
Income from advertising helps to pay for FreeBMD and enables us to keep it free to use. if you would rather not agree to such cookies, please do consider offering a donation instead.
Personalised advertising doesn't mean you will see more ads, it means you will see ones that are personalised to you. To do this, we let our partners use cookies to collect similar data that we do on our sites so that they can provide ads on our sites that they think match your interests, such as offers from websites you have already visited
We use cookies from the advertising networks Google Adsense and Google DoubleClick for Publishers. These provide both contextual and online behavioural advertising (personal advertising).
Please note that if you do not enable targeted adverts, you will still see adverts although they will be that are less relevant to you. These adverts use cookies but are not for personalisation. Contextual adverts display adverts which are relevant to the website (e.g. on this website, family history and genealogy) or to what is known about users of this website on an aggregate level (e.g. many users are interested in travel and many users are from older age brackets.
If you choose not to have cookies, please consider making a donation instead.
We use Google analytics in order to help us understand how the site is used and to help guide improvements. Such data might identify the browser you use, device used and whether you are a returning user or not.
_ga and _gat and related cookies from Google analytics, for online behavioural advertising. Income from online behavioural advertising helps to pay for our sites and enables us to keep them free to use.
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, the website can remember the way you normally perform operations and can provide these as defaults. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise.
The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
You might have seen the options above which allow you to switch cookies on/off for specific cookie types (such as advertising or analytics). These options are saved and you can return to update your consent at any time.
Additionally, you can also control and/or delete cookies as you wish - for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
| Category | Name | Expiry | Use | By |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | FreeBMDauth FreeBMDauth_* |
end of session | Authentication token for logged in user, including session state information (* = additional identifier where multiple sessions are required) | Any FreeBMD page requiring login |
| FreeBMDCaptureData | +7 days | Used to pass data to alignment script in order to create alignment information for database update | Administrator doing record alignment | |
| FreeBMDCaptureItem | +7 days | |||
| trac_auth | end of session | Authentication token using the trac task management system | trac | |
| trac_form_token | end of session | |||
| Functional | FreeBMDInfoProv | +7 days | State information for entry display | Entry information display |
| FreeBMDuser | +1 month | User id of logged in user | Any FreeBMD page requiring authentication | |
| FreeBMDCorrSynd | end of session | Login data when doing syndicate login to corrections system | Corrections system | |
| FreeBMDCorrections | +1 year | Saving options when doing corrections | Corrections system | |
| FreeBMDUpload | +1 month | Saving options when producing reports of uploads | Upload report | |
| cookieconsent_dismissed | +1 year | Recording that subject/user has seen the cookie notice | All pages | |
| NID SNID |
indefinite | These are cookies used by google reCAPTCHA to determine that input is from a human being. These cookies use a unique identifier for tracking purposes. | Pages that use reCAPTCHA | |
| Analytics Allow google analytics cookies? |
_ga | +1 year | Website usage tracking using Google Analytics. | All pages |
| _gat | ? | |||
| __utma | +1 year | |||
| __utmb | ? | |||
| __utmc | end of session | |||
| __utmt | ? | |||
| __utmv | ? | |||
| __utmz | +6 months | |||
| Advertisement Allow personalized adverts |
DSID | 1 day | Advertising tracking using Google Adsense. Further information on the way that Google uses cookies, and how you can control advertising cookies can be found here | Search and associated pages |
| IDE | +1 year |
| Search engine, layout and database
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