Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website, biosis.com.au. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse biosis.com.au and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Strictly necessary cookies
| Cookie | Managed and installed by | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| AEC | This cookie is used by Google to ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. | |
| SID | This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. | |
| SIDCC | This cookie is used by Google to provide the identification of trusted web traffic. |
Analytical cookies
| Cookie | Managed and installed by | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| DV | This cookie is used by Google to collect information about how visitors use our site. | |
| _ga | Google Analytics | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
| _ga_64BPM5SVY1 | Google Analytics | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store and count pageviews. |
| OGP | This cookie is used by Google to activate and track Google Maps functionality on our site. | |
| OGPC | This cookie is used by Google to activate and track Google Maps functionality on our site. | |
| OTZ | Google Analytics | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to provide an analysis of website visitors in aggregate. |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | This cookie is used by Google to prevent the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. The main goal is to mitigate the risk of cross-origin information leakage. It also provides some protection against cross-site request forgery attacks. | |
| UULE | This cookie is used by Google to collect information anonymously, including the number of visitors to the sites, where visitors have come to the sites from and the pages they have visited. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. |
Advertising cookies
| Cookie | Managed and installed by | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| ADS_VISTOR_ID | Google Advertising | This cookie is used by Google to identify users served ads. |
| APISID | Google Advertising | This cookie is used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. |
| HSID | Google Advertising | This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. |
| NID | Google Advertising | This cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users. |
| __Secure-1PAPISID | Google Advertising | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. |
| __Secure-1PSID | Google Advertising | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. |
| __Secure-1PSIDCC | Google Advertising | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. |
| __Secure-1PSIDTS | Google Advertising | This cookie collects information about your interactions with Google services and ads. The cookie contains a unique identifier. |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | Google Advertising | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. |
| __Secure-3PSID | Google Advertising | This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising. |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | Google Advertising | This cookie is used by Google to build a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. |
| __Secure-3PSIDTS | Google Advertising | This cookie collects information about your interactions with Google services and ads. It is used to measure the effectiveness of advertising and offer content personalised to your interests. The cookie contains a unique identifier. |
| __Secure-ENID | This cookie is used by Google to remember your preferences and other information. |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
- Google Analytics
- Google Adwords
To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the cookie consent manager on our site to manage the use of these types of cookies
However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit https://allaboutcookies.org/