Alight AB uses cookies on the www.alight-energy.com website in order to optimize the functionality of our website and your experience when using it.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files with information that are stored on your computer (or telephone or other device connected to the internet) when you visit a website. Cookies are used to make a website function more effectively, but also to provide our website with certain types of information. Cookies enable a website to distinguish between visitors, which makes it possible to offer each user a more positive website visit.
Cookies used on Alight’s website
The table below shows which cookies are used on our website, the purpose of each one and the storage period.
| Cookie | Description | Duration | Type | Info/ third party |
| _ga | 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 assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. | 2 years | Analytics | Google Analytics |
| Cookie | Description | Duration | Type | Info/ third party |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | 1 day | Analytics | Google Analytics |
| Cookie | Description | Duration | Type | Info/ third party |
| _gat | N/A | 1 minute | Performance | Google Universal Analytics |
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If you choose to block the cookies used on our website, this could affect your experience of our website, for example, by disabling certain functions; however, cookies are not necessary for the website to work.
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