INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data sent to your computer or mobile device from a website. It often includes a unique identifier and is stored on your device's hard drive. This site doesn't use cookies to collect information that can be used to identify you.
Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it. Your browser is the computer program you use to access the internet. By default, your browser will only allow a website to access the cookies it's already sent to you, and not the cookies sent to you by any other website. This is to protect your privacy.
For more information go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/guides/about-cookies
What types of cookies do we use?
We use the following cookies:
- Cookies required to deliver site functionality. 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.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Services that need cookies to work
Some of our website services need to store a cookie on your computer for them to work. These cookies are removed when you finish using the service. These services will not work if cookies are blocked. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of these strictly necessary cookies.
Google Analytics cookies
This site uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of the site.
Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using the site, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
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You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Cookie | Name | Purpose | More information | Expiry period |
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Cookies required to deliver site functionality | ||||
Microsoft Azure Affinity | ARRAffinity | Used to keep users within a certain instance of web app or web site in Azure | End of the user session | |
Microsoft Azure Affinity | ARRAffinitySameSite | Used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. | End of the user session | |
Cross-site scripting/Antiforgery | .AspNetCore.Antiforgery.XXXXXXXXXXX | Designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. | https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/ | End of user session |
Authentication | .ASPNetCore.Cookies | To maintain user session state and for authentication purposes. | 30 minutes | |
ASP Net Core Session | .AspNetCore.Session | A cookie that ASP.NET uses to store a unique identifier for your session. | End of the user session | |
Preferred locale | preferred_locale | A cookie that stores the user's preferred locale to allow all pages to be displayed in the correct language | Session | |
Analytical/performance cookies | ||||
Google Analytics | _ga | Used to distinguish users. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage | 2 years |
Google Analytics | _gat | Used to throttle request rate. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage | 1 minute |
Google Analytics | _gid | Used to distinguish users. | https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage | 24 hours |