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Cookies are small files that websites put on your device to make visits quicker, easier and more relevant. Some cookies are necessary for this website to work while others remember things about you and help us to improve our services.
This website places cookies on your computer or handheld device ("your device"). This is standard practice for all websites. Please find below more information about cookies, including how we use them and how to disable them.
Like most sites, we use technologies that are essentially small data files placed on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or other devices (referred to collectively as a "device") that allow us to record certain pieces of information whenever you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, messaging, and tools, and to recognize you across devices.
The specific names and types of the cookies, web beacons, unique identifiers, and similar technologies we use to collect information (e.g. about the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take on our Services, within our advertising or e-mail content) may change from time to time. In order to help you better understand this Policy and our use of such technologies we have provided the following limited terminology and definitions:
We may use the terms "cookies" interchangeably in our policies to refer to all technologies that we may use to store data in your browser or device or that collect information or help us identify you in the manner described above.
Below is a list of the cookies that are currently on this website (including those of third parties):
Cookies are used for essential activities to make our websites and apps work. These cookies are needed to provide the content, product or service you have asked for. We use essential cookies for purposes including:
| Name | Purpose/Description | Type and Duration |
|---|---|---|
| cfid | To use client and session variables, ColdFusion must be able to identify the client. It normally does so by setting the following cookie value on the client's system: CFID: A sequential client identifier These cookies uniquely identify the client to ColdFusion, which also maintains copies of the variables as part of the Session and Client scopes. |
Persistent, 1 day |
| cftoken | To use client and session variables, ColdFusion must be able to identify the client. It normally does so by setting the following cookie value on the client's system: CFToken: A random-number client security token These cookies uniquely identify the client to ColdFusion, which also maintains copies of the variables as part of the Session and Client scopes. |
Persistent, 1 day |
| JSESSIONID | JSESSIONID is a cookie generated by Servlet containers and used for session management in J2EE web applications for HTTP protocol. If a Web server is using a cookie for session management, it creates and sends JSESSIONID cookie to the client and then the client sends it back to the server in subsequent HTTP requests. JSESSIONID is a platform session cookie and is used by sites with JavaServer Pages (JSP). The cookie is used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | Session |
| AEcookieMessage | To display cookie banner on site | Until next visit |
| BNI_persistence | Used by the traffic balancing service to run the website functionality/content requests including images and JS. | Session, each time site accessed |
| CONSENT | Is an interface featuring a cookie consent tool through which end-users can see information about all cookies and trackers in use on your domain, including details about their duration, provider, purpose and technical specifications, and decide whether they will allow these to be activated or not during their visit. | Renewed every 6 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | A cookie that YouTube sets that measures your bandwidth to determine whether you get the new player interface or the old. | 8 months |
| visitor_id[property_id] | Functional search cookie preserves the visitor's session state across page requests. Hawksearch receives and stores only anonymous data directly from the website and on storage uses a non-PII ID to determine which results or recommendations to provide to a user. | 1 year |
| visitor_id[property_id]_hash | This cookie contains the account ID and stores a unique hash. This cookie is a safety measure to ensure that a malicious user cannot pretend to be a visitor and access corresponding interest information. | 1 year |
| ipv[property_id] | This LPV cookie is set to keep Pardot from tracking multiple page views on a single asset over a 30-minute session. For example, if a visitor reloads a landing page several times over a 30-minute period, this cookie keeps each reload from being tracked as a page view. | 30 minutes |
| YSC | Used by YouTube to remember user input and associate a user's actions. | 30 minutes |
| flxNGTM | To indicate customer acceptance of Google Tag Manager cookies. | Persistent, 30 days |
| _GRECAPTCHA | This cookie is set by Google reCAPTCHA, which protects against spam enquiries on forms. | Session, 30 minutes |
We use analytical cookies to help improve our products. For example:
The information collected using these cookies is grouped with the information from everyone else so we can see overall patterns rather than individual activity. When given the option, we recommend you turn on cookies used for these purposes.
| Name | Purpose/Description | Type and Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | This cookie is a Google Analytics persistent cookie which is used to distinguish unique users | 2 Years |
| _gid | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. | 1 day |
| _gat | This cookie is used to throttle request rate. These are third party cookies that are placed on your device to allow us to use the Google Analytics service. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. | 30 Minutes |
| _gat_[property_id] | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | 1 Minute |
| _gat_masterTracker | We use Google Analytics to help us collect statistics on visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. This helps us to understand how people use the site and to make improvements to our site. | 10 Minutes |
| _gat_gtag_[property_id] | The GA tracking ID allows the creation of up to 50 different views in Analytics to show data in relation to the website | 1 minute |
Cookies are used for advertising and marketing purposes. These cookies are used to identify your interests by understanding how you interact with our sites and apps and your web browsing activity. We do this so that we and our trusted partners can:
| Name | Purpose/Description | Type and Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Used by Google for experimenting with advertisement efficiency | Persistent, 3 months |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months |
| IDE | Set by a third party (DoubleClick), used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to you across the web. | Persistent, 1.5 years |
| test_cookie | Set by a third party (DoubleClick), to measure the visitors' actions after they click through from an advert. | Session, Until next visit |
| bscookie | Set by a third party (LinkedIn), Used for remembering that a logged in user is verified by two factor authentication. | 2 years |
| bcookie | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform. | 2 years |
| lang | Used to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings. | Session |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries. | 30 days |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. | 30 days |
| lidc | To facilitate data center selection . | 24 hours |
| li_gc | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. | 2 years |
| personalization_id | This cookie is set by Twitter to measure the performance of advertising campaigns through Twitter, across different browsers and devices used by a visitor. | 2 years |
| muc_ads | Pending. | 2 years |
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that or to notify you each time a cookie is set.
Visiting www.allaboutcookies.org will provide information on settings within your browser as well as other useful information on cookies.
Below are links to most used browsers with information for blocking cookies, however, be mindful that if you use multiple browsers you will have to undertake this process on each browser and blocking these Essential site cookies will result in a limited experience of the Site: