Cookie Policy

.ASPXANONYMOUS

Essential

This cookie is used by sites using the .NET technology platform from Microsoft. It enables the site to maintain an anonymous user-id to track unique users within a session without them logging in or otherwise identifying themselves.

 2 months

_dc_gtm_UA-xxxxxxxx

Essential

This cookie is associated with sites using Google Tag Manager to load other scripts and code into a page. Where it is used it may be regarded as Strictly Necessary as without it, other scripts may not function correctly. The end of the name is a unique number which is also an identifier for an associated Google Analytics account.

A few seconds

ASP.NET_SessionId

Essential

General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.

Session

__RequestVerificationToken

Essential

This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser.

Session

_gid

Performance

This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid

A few seconds

_gclxxxx

Performance

Google conversion tracking cookie

2 months

_ga

Performance

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 sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.

1 year

_ga_xxxxxxxxxx

Performance

1 year

RecentlyViewed

Functional

This cookie records items that the end user may hav visited, and will generally feed that information into a "Recently Viewed" feature within the website.

A few seconds

IDE

Targeting

This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange

1 year

test_cookie

Targeting

This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies.

A few seconds

pcaKey

Unclassified

Session

EPi_NumberOfVisits

Unclassified

1 year

__epiXSRF

Unclassified

A few seconds