Cookie Policy

This page explains how the Vanuatu Investment Migration Bureau (“VIMB”, “we”, “us”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on this website to support its functionality, improve your browsing experience, and understand how visitors interact with our site.

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They allow us to recognise your browser, remember your preferences, and gather information about how our site is used so that we can continue to improve it.

Categories of cookies we use

Strictly necessary cookies — required for the website to function correctly, including consent management (via WPConsent) and security verification (via Google reCAPTCHA)
Analytics cookies — help us understand website traffic and visitor behaviour through Google Analytics (GA4)
Advertising cookies — used for Google Ads and Meta advertising, including remarketing, to measure and improve the relevance of our marketing
Functional cookies — support features such as automatic language translation (via GTranslate) and interactive elements on our site

Third-party cookies

Some cookies are placed by third-party services integrated into our website, including ActiveCampaign (our contact and enquiry forms), Google (Analytics, Ads, Tag Manager, reCAPTCHA), and GTranslate. These providers may set their own cookies in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.

Your choices

When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner allowing you to accept, decline, or customise which categories of cookies you permit. You may update your preferences at any time using the cookie settings available on this page. Where you have provided consent through our contact forms for us to process your personal data, this is managed separately in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

How long cookies remain on your device

The table below sets out each cookie we use, its purpose, and its retention period.
For more information on how we collect, use, and protect your personal data more broadly, please see our
Privacy Policy.

Essential
Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper function of the website.
Name Description Duration
wpconsent_preferences This cookie is used to store the user's cookie consent preferences. 30 days
Comments
These cookies are needed for adding comments on this website.
Name Description Duration
comment_author Used to track the user across multiple sessions. Session
comment_author_email Used to track the user across multiple sessions. Session
comment_author_url Used to track the user across multiple sessions. Session
Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager simplifies the management of marketing tags on your website without code changes.
Name Description Duration
cookiePreferences Registers cookie preferences of a user 2 years
td Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. session
Statistics
Statistics cookies collect information anonymously. This information helps us understand how visitors use our website.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a powerful tool that tracks and analyzes website traffic for informed marketing decisions.
Learn more
Name Description Duration
_gac_ Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together. 90 days
__utma ID used to identify users and sessions 2 years after last activity
__utmt Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests 10 minutes
__utmb Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server. 30 minutes after last activity
__utmc Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. End of session (browser)
__utmz Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server 6 months after last activity
__utmv Contains custom information set by the web developer via the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated every time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. 2 years after last activity
__utmx Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. 18 months
_ga ID used to identify users 2 years
_gali Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked 30 seconds
_ga_ ID used to identify users 2 years
_gid ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity 24 hours
_gat Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager 1 minute

Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Categories of cookies we use

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Your choices

How long cookies remain on your device

Essential

Comments

Google Tag Manager

Statistics

Google Analytics

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