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What are cookies?
A cookie is a simple text file which stores small pieces of information. When you visit one of our websites its server saves the cookie onto your computer or other device. Only that platform’s server will be able to read or retrieve the contents of that cookie.
Cookies do many different jobs like storing your preferences, helping you navigate effectively, and improving your overall experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and our platforms quicker and easier. For example, a cookie might store information so you don’t have to keep entering it.
| Cookie name | Description | Category | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| __CookieConsentV300 | Used to check whether the user has read the cookie disclaimer and has hit 'Accept All', 'Decline All' or 'Save Preferences. | Strictly necessary | 180 days |
| AWSALB | AWS ELB application load balancerUsed to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. | Strictly necessary | 6 days |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing.Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. | Strictly necessary | 6 days |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Microsoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Strictly necessary | Session |
| __cf_bm | The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| _cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is used by Cloudflare to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address for the purpose of enforcing rate limiting rules. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| __RequestVerificationToken | 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. | Strictly Necessary | Session |
| _ga | 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. For more information about Google's processing of your personal data, please consult Google's Privacy & Terms site. | Performance | 365 days |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device.Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. | Performance | Session |
| _gcl_au | This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to store and track conversions.Google conversion tracking cookie | Performance | 60 days |
| lidc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Marketing | Session |
| bcookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active Linkedin profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | Marketing | 365 days |
| li_sugr | Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity | Marketing | 90 days |
| test_cookie | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. | Marketing | Session |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. | Marketing | 30 days |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. | Marketing | 30 days |