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Information About Our Use Of Cookies
This policy explains how our website uses cookies.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your personal computer, mobile or other 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.
Cookies in themselves do not identify you, just the computer or device you are using. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like making it easier for you to log onto, and use, our site during future visits, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your experience. They also allow us to monitor traffic on our site and can also help to ensure that advertising you see online is more relevant to you and your interests.
Cookies themselves only record which areas of our site have been visited by your computer or device and for how long. Allowing us to create a cookie does not give us access to the rest of your computer, and does not allow us to see any personally identifiable data about you.
Types of Cookies
Cookies can be arranged into four groups:
a) Analytics/performance cookies: Every time someone visits our site, software that we have selected and which is provided by one or more other organisations generates an 'anonymous analytics cookie' which tell us whether or not you have visited our site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and, if you don't, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many users we have, and how often they visit our site. We use these cookies to gather statistics such as the number of visits to any page on our site.
b) Functionality cookies: These cookies enable us to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. For example, remembering your email address and preferences on our website, so you don't have to choose them each time you visit.
c) Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make a purchase.
d) Targeting cookies: We use these anonymous cookies to determine the content of advertisements that we show on other websites. When you visit other sites on the web, such as news or information sites, this cookie lets our retargeting providers know when to serve advertisements and what content to show you. These cookies also allow us to know whether or not you've seen an advertisement, and how long it has been since you've seen it.
Cookies we use
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Name |
Description |
Category |
Expiry |
| #sitename#lang |
Stores the language version for a website |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| NREUM |
This cookie is generated by New Relic and this cookie is only created in browsers that do not support the Navigation Timing API |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| NRAGENT |
NRAGENT cookie is created as a token handed out to an end user by "website-NAME" collector and cookie is set if user use Browser agent version v443 or lower. This cookie is used to communicate between the "Website's" collector aggregating end-user metrics and the agent(s) running in the associated web application. |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| AMP_TOKEN |
Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. |
Optional |
30 seconds to 1 year |
| _gac_
<property-id></property-id> |
Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. |
Optional |
90 days |
| .ASPXFORMSAUTH |
This attribute is used to specify the HTTP cookie to use for authentication. |
Strictly necessary cookie |
End of browser session |
| .ASPXROLES |
Cookies used to keep track of if the visitor has any permissions on the website. Only used for logged in users |
Strictly necessary cookie |
End of browser session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
ASP.Net_SessionId is a cookie used to identify the users' session on the server. The session used to store data in between off HTTP requests on server. |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| AWSALBCORS |
AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing as well. With cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests, some browsers require SameSite=None; Secure to enable stickiness. In this case, the load balancer generates a second stickiness cookie, AWSALBCORS, which includes the same information as the original stickiness cookie, AWSALB, plus the SameSite attribute. Clients receive both cookies. |
Strictly necessary |
7 Days |
| AWSALB |
Classic AWS load balancer first receives a request from a client, it routes the request to a target, generates a cookie named AWSALB that encodes information about the selected target, encrypts the cookie, and includes the cookie in the response to the client. |
Strictly necessary |
1 Day |
| .ASPXAUTH |
.ASPXAUTH is a cookie to identify if the user is authenticated( As user's identity has been verified) |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| AWSELBCORS |
AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: This load-balancing cookie is managed by AWS and is for sticky sessions associated with cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests. With CORS requests, some browsers require SameSite=None; Secure to enable stickiness. In this case, the elastic load balancer generates a second stickiness cookie, AWSELBCORS, which includes the same information as the original stickiness cookie, AWSELB, plus the SameSite attribute. Clients receive both cookies in response. |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| AWSELB |
AWS Classic Load Balancer creates load balancing cookie: used to map the session to the instance. |
Strictly necessary |
1 Day |
| AWSALBTG |
AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: The ASWALBTG cookie is a load balancer-generated cookie for Weighted Target Groups. It is used to honor sticky sessions and enable target group stickiness. When the load balancer first routes a request to a weighted target group, it generates an encrypted cookie named AWSALBTG that encodes information about the selected target group and includes the cookie in the response to the client. When the load balancer receives a request from the same client that matches a rule with target group stickiness enabled and contains the cookie, the request is routed to the target group specified in the cookie. |
Strictly necessary |
7 Days |
| AWSALBTGCORS |
AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: This load-balancing cookie is managed by AWS and is for Weighted Target Groups associated with cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests. With CORS requests, some browsers require SameSite=None; Secure to enable stickiness. In this case, the elastic load balancer generates a second stickiness cookie, AWSALBCORS, which includes the same information as the original stickiness cookie, AWSALBTG, plus the SameSite attribute. Clients receive both cookies in response. |
Strictly necessary |
7 Days |
| __cf_bm |
Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on the devices of their customers' end users when they visit their sites that are using Cloudflare Bot Management. This cookie supports Cloudflare Bot Management by managing incoming traffic that matches the criteria associated with bots. The cookie does not collect any personal data, and any information collected is subject to one-way encryption. This encrypted file contains Cloudflare’s proprietary bot score and helps manage incoming traffic that matches specific criteria. |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| __CookieConsentV300 |
_Cookieconsent cookie is a plugin used to comply with EU guideline |
Strictly necessary |
180 days |
| _ga |
Used to distinguish users. |
Performance |
2 years |
| _gid |
Used to distinguish users. |
Performance |
24 hours |
| _gat |
Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_
<property-id>.</property-id> |
Performance |
1 minute |
| _gat_INVDSitecore |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics and is placed by Investis Digital's Sitecore platform on which this website is built. It is used to throttle the request rate-limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
Performance |
1 minute |
Cookies and similar technologies set by third parties
This website uses sharing tools. Sharing tools allow you to share content through social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. When you use one of these buttons, the social networking site may place a cookie on your computer. This would be a third-party cookie set by the social networking site. If you have any questions about the use of these third-party cookies and other similar technologies (e.g. web beacons, pixels and local storage technologies), you should check the relevant social networking site's cookies policy. Because of how these technologies work, our site cannot access this information. These third parties are responsible for setting out their own cookie and privacy policies.
These links may also assist you:
http://www.aboutads.info/choices
http://optout.networkadvertising.org/
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices
https://adssettings.google.com
http://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences
http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads
Changing cookie settings
With most Internet browsers, you can erase or block cookies or ask to receive a warning before a cookie is stored. The “Help” function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, you may wish to visit the following sites:
www.youronlinechoices.eu
www.aboutcookies.org
www.allaboutcookies.org
which contain comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may have a negative impact on the functionality of the Website.
Last updated: 17 September 2018