Cookies

Cookies

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as “cookies”. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

• enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task;
• recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested; and
• measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast.

Our use of cookies

Cookies for managing your current visit
Name: site-session
Typical content: randomly generated text
Expires: when user exits browser

Cookies for improving service
Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast. Some of these cookies include:

Name: _utma
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years

Name: _utmb
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 30 minutes

Name: _utmc
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser

Name: _utmt
Typical content: Used to throttle request rate
Expires: 10 minutes

Name: _utmz
Typical content: randomly generated number plus information on how the site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid search, etc.)
Expires: 6 months

_uetvid
Typical content: 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.
Expires: 2 weeks

_uetsid
Typical content: 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. This is a Microsoft cookie.
Expires: 24 hours

MUID
Typical content: Bing analytics tracking code
Expires: 28 days

cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary
Typical content: Cookie to track if the user has agreed to the cookie policy in the popup
Expires: 1 year

Clarity

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For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code website.