First party Cookies

Strictly necessary Cookies - These cookies are essential for the operation of our websites and for instance enable you to navigate the websites to use certain services, e.g. to access secure areas.

 

Name of Cookie

Description

Category

Duration

ASPSESSIONID

 

(The number on the end is your unique identifying code)

A session ID for each user so that it can map the user to session state information on the server.

 

A non-persistent cookie to store the session state.

Strictly necessary

End of browser session

 

Third party Cookies

Performance Cookies - These cookies collect anonymised information about how you use our web sites, e.g. how often you visit the websites and which areas are accessed most frequently. This information enables us to improve the performance of our web sites and are exclusively used for statistical purposes in order to analyse visits and access to the web sites themselves. The information collected by performance cookies is anonymised and cannot be used to identify a specific person.

 

__utma

Distinguished users and sessions. Cookie is created by javascript and cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics

First-party

2 years from set/update

__utmb

Determines new users and sessions. Cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics

First-party

30 mins from set/update

__utmc

Monitors when users session ends

First-party

End of browser session

__utmz

Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how users reached site. Cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics

First-party

6 months from set/update

_ga

Set by analytics.js. Used to distinguish users

First-party

2 Years

_gid

Used to distinguish users

First-party

24 Hours