Cookie Notice
- Introduction
- Do we use cookies on our website and, if so, why?
- What types of cookies are used and what choices do you have?
- Cookies we use
- Changing your cookie preferences
Last Updated: 3 September 2025
Introduction
This is the cookie notice of Fora for our website (https://www.foraspace.com/). We want to ensure that you enjoy browsing our website. In order to enhance your experience, we place cookies onto your computer. Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and target the content displayed to the user’s interests.
By using our website, you agree that, unless you have set your device's browser to reject them, we can place the types of cookies set out below on your device and use that data in accordance with this policy.
You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu, and for a video about cookies visit www.google.co.uk/goodtoknow/data-on-the-web/cookies/.
Do we use cookies on our website and, if so, why?
Yes. We use cookies (including HTTP, HTML5 and Flash cookies) and similar technologies (such as web beacons and JavaScript) to: (i) customize and improve the users’ experience of our website (ii) deliver content tailored to the users’ interests and the manner in which they browse our website and (iii) manage our website and other aspects of our business.
What types of cookies are used and what choices do you have?
Below is a list of the cookies that we would like to use on our website.
| Cookie Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Strictly Cookies - Necessary | These cookies are necessary for our website to work,enable you to move around the website and use the services and features. Disabling these cookies will encumber performance and may make these services and features unavailable. Strictly Necessary Cookies are used to collect session ID and authentication data. They are “session” cookies, which expire when you close your browser session. For example, ASP.NET_SessionID is a cookie that contains the user session identifier which expires at the end of every session. |
| Performance Cookies | Performance cookies serve the purpose of optimising the performance of the website and improving the experience for the user. For this purpose, performance cookies are used to collect and analyse information about the use of the website by visitors. This information includes details about the browser and operating system used, the URL from which users came to our website, the pages accessed or the time a user spent on these pages. Performance cookies are not used to create user profiles. |
| Functional Cookies | Functional Cookies allow the website to help maintain your session and remember the choices you made in order to provide functionality for your benefit. Functional Cookies are used to collect information about your language preferences and other preferences indicated during your visit. For example, functional “session” cookies allow the website to remember settings specific to you (such as, your country selection) which ultimately improves your web experience. Functional Cookies also include persistent cookies which are used to remember your preferences when you subsequently visit. Functional “persistent” cookies expire after 7 days. |
| Analytic Cookies | Analytic Cookies are used to gather statistics about the use of the website in order to improve the performance and design of our services. For these purposes, Analytic Cookies collect information about your device type, operating system type, browser type, domain, other system settings, IP address, referring URLs, information on actions taken on the website and the dates and times of your visits, as well as the country and time zone in which your device is located. These cookies are provided by our third-party analytics tool provider (Google Analytics) and the information obtained through these cookies will be disclosed to, or collected directly by, this third-party service provider. For more information about Google Analytics’ cookie and information practices please read below. |
| Targeting Cookies | Targeting cookies focus on displaying ads based on user behaviour across multiple websites. This allows us to display ads throughout a user's browsing experience once the user has expressed interest on our website. |
| Marketing Cookies | We use marketing cookies on our website to show you advertisements that correspond to your interests. Marketing cookies are also used to evaluate the efficiency of advertisements. In addition, they limit the number of times a particular advertisement is displayed to you. In some cases, we also pass on the data collected with marketing cookies to third parties. These third parties may combine this information with other information about you that you have provided to them or that they have collected as part of your use of the Services. |
| Third Party Cookies | We partner with third parties to provide you with additional features. By using the website or engaging with third-party plugins and widgets, such third parties may place “session” or “persistent” cookies, or similar technologies, on your browser. These technologies may provide the third parties information about your visit so that they can present you with advertisements for their products and services which may be of interest to you. This helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. The use of these cookies is subject to the third party’s own cookie policies, linked below: |
Cookies we use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AWSALBCORS | 6 Days | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. |
| AWSALB | 6 Days | AWS ELB application load balancer. |
| OptanonConsent | 1 Year | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the user’s browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | 1 Year | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and, in some cases, only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one-year lifespan and contains no personal information. |
| m | 1 Year | This domain is associated with Stripe, a company that provides payment processing software and application programming interfaces for e-commerce websites and mobile applications. |
Performance Cookies
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __utmzz | 6 days | This cookie is used to store the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. It's created by Google Analytics for tracking purposes. |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | 1 Year | NAUsed by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. |
| _uetvid | 1 Year | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. |
| _hjSessionUser_5005338 | 1 Year | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
| _hjSession_5005338 | 0 Days | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. |
| _ga | 1 Year | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports. By default, it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. |
| _gid | 0 Days | Google Analytics cookie used to store and count pageviews. |
Functional Cookies
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __stripe_sid | 0 Days | Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. |
| __stripe_mid | 1 Year | Stripe is used to making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who you are and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. |
Targeting Cookies
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _fbp | 0 Days | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. |
| _uetsid | 0 Days | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. |
| __utmzzses | 0 Days | UTM Parameters used for advertising/tracking with Google Analytics |
Third Party Cookies
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AWSALB | 6 Days | Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. |
| AWSALBCORS | 6 Days | Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. |
Changing your cookie preferences
The "Help" menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser's cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Below is some helpful guidance about how to make these changes.
You can find guidance on how to block website cookies on different browsers below:
- Firefox cookie management
- Chrome cookie management
- Safari cookie management
- Microsoft Edge cookie management
More detailed information on disabling cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org. However, please note that if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including, for example, Strictly Necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.