Cookie Policy
How we use cookies on our site.
How we use cookies on our site.
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.
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the ‘lifetime’ of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly and are used by most major websites. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. Click here to find out more about cookies.
We use the following cookies:
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
| Cookie Name | Description | Duration | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| .AspNetCore.Antiforgery.VyLW6ORzMgk | Stores an anti-forgery [CSRF] token to verify that form submissions and requests come from the legitimate user, protecting against cross-site request forgery attacks. | 1 Year | First Party |
| __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. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| ai_user | This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statictical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time.user. | 1 Year | First Party |
| ARRAffinity | This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. | 1 Year | First Party |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | ARRAffinitySameSite is used to ensure that requests from a client are routed to the same origin server during a browsing session, typically used in load balancing scenarios to maintain session integrity with sticky sessions. | 1 Year | First Party |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| AWSELB | This cookie name is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| CraftSessionId | This cookie name is associated with the Craft web content management system, where is functions as an anonymous session identifier. | 1 Year | First Party |
| eupubconsent | This cookie is used by the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework to store the user's consent to the data collection Purposes. The cookie holds an encrypted consent string that vendors participating in the framework can read and determine the user's consent. | 7983 Years | First Party |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | 1 Year | First Party |
| OptanonConsent | This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. | 1 Year | First Party |
| PHPSESSID | Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| PHPSESSID | Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| session_id | This cookie is generated as part of the sign-in process and used to defend against Cross Site Request Forgery [CSRF]. | 1 Year | First Party |
| wordpress_test_cookie | On login, WordPress uses the wordpress_[hash] cookie to store your authentication details. Its use is limited to the Administration Screen area, /wp-admin/. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
| Cookie Name | Description | Duration | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics. | 1 Year | First Party |
| _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. | 7 Year | First Party |
| _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. | 2 Years | First Party |
| _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. | 2 Years | Third Party |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. | 2 Year | First Party |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. | 8 Year | First Party |
| _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _gclxxxx | Google conversion tracking cookie. | 2 Months | First Party |
| _gclxxxx | Google conversion tracking cookie. | 3 Months | First Party |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. | 1 Day | First Party |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _hjFirstSeen | Identifies a new user's first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar's seeing this user for the first time. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _hjid | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 6 Year | First Party |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _hjSession_2880475 | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _hjSession_3550894 | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _hjSession_3550894 | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _hjSessionUser_2880475 | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 9 Year | First Party |
| _hjSessionUser_3550894 | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 3 Year | First Party |
| _hjSessionUser_3550894 | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 10 Year | First Party |
| _hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains [where applicable]. To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains [where applicable]. To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | 11 Years | First Party |
| _uetvid | 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. | 4 Year | First Party |
| _uetvid | 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. | 12 Years | First Party |
| _uetvid | 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. | 17 Days | First Party |
| ai_session | This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| AWSALB | 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. | 6 Days | Third Party |
| AWSALBCORS | 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. | 6 Days | Third Party |
| JSESSIONID | This domain is controlled by New Relic, which provides a platform for monitoring the performance of web and mobile applications. | 13 Years | Third Party |
| nmstat | This cookie name is associated with the website analytics service provided by SiteImprove. It enables site owners to gather usage statistics about their websites. | 5 Year | First Party |
| nmstat | This cookie name is associated with the website analytics service provided by SiteImprove. It enables site owners to gather usage statistics about their websites. | 2 Years | First Party |
| optimizelyBuckets | Cookie set by the Optimizely website optimisation plaftform. Used to store the page variants assigned to a user for A/B performance testing, to ensure the user gets a consistent experience. | 10 Years | First Party |
| optimizelyEndUserId | Cookie set by the Optimizely website optimisation plaftform. This cookie is a unique user identifier. | 10 Years | First Party |
| optimizelyPendingLogEvents | Cookie set by the Optimizely website optimisation plaftform. Records user activity. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| optimizelySegments | This cookie is set by the Optimizely website optimisation plaftform. It holds audience segmentation information for a visitor. | 10 Years | First Party |
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.
| Cookie Name | Description | Duration | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| ahoy_visitor | This cookie is generally provided by Shopify and is used to help identify a specific user across multiple devices. | 2 Years | Third Party |
| AWSELBCORS | This cookie name is associated with the Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| optimizelyRumLB | This cookie controls AWSELB attributes such as SameSite and Secure. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| tableau_locale | This cookie is used for embedded Tableau charts and interactivity. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| Wishlist:sessionId | This cookie stores wishlist session ID. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
| Cookie Name | Description | Duration | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| __gads | This cookie is associated with the DoubleClick for Publishers service from Google. Its purpose is to do with the showing of adverts on the site, for which the owner may earn some revenue. | 1 Year | First Party |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 Months | First Party |
| _gat_gtag_UA_nnnnnnnn_n | Google Analytics Cookies. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | Google Analytics Cookies. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _uetsid | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| _uetsid | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | 1 Day | First Party |
| ahoy_unique_23862033 | This cookie is used for analytics [registers statistical data of users behaviour on website]. | 1 Day | Third Party |
| ahoy_unique_24092347 | This cookie is used for analytics [registers statistical data of users behaviour on website]. | 1 Day | Third Party |
| ahoy_visit | This cookie name is associated with powr.io which is used to register statistical data on visitors' behaviour on the website for internal analytics by the website operator. | 1 Day | Third Party |
| AN | This domain is owned by Eventbrite a USA based organisation that provides event booking and ticketing services, both off its own site and embedded in other websites. The privacy policy of Eventbrite means that it reserves the right to use data collected for marketing and advertising purposes. | 1 Month | Third Party |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | 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. | 1 Month | Third Party |
| AS | Eventbrite is a U.S.-based event management and ticketing website providing event promoting services. This domain belongs to Eventbrite. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| 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. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| bscookie | 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. | 2 Years | Third Party |
| CONSENT | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 16 Years | Third Party |
| csrftoken | Eventbrite is a U.S.-based event management and ticketing website providing event promoting services. This domain belongs to Eventbrite. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| datadome | This domain is owned by Soundcloud, a German company providing social sharing services centred around soundclips. The data that is collected through its services can be used for profiling and targeted advertising. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| ebEventToTrack | This domain is owned by Eventbrite a USA based organisation that provides event booking and ticketing services, both off its own site and embedded in other websites. The privacy policy of Eventbrite means that it reserves the right to use data collected for marketing and advertising purposes. | 1 Month | Third Party |
| eblang | Eventbrite is a U.S.-based event management and ticketing website providing event promoting services. This domain belongs to Eventbrite. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| G | Eventbrite is a U.S.-based event management and ticketing website providing event promoting services. This domain belongs to Eventbrite. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| GoogleAdServingTest | This cookie is used to determine what ads have been shown to the website visitor. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| GoogleAdServingTest | This cookie is used to determine what ads have been shown to the website visitor. | Less than 1 Day | First Party |
| guest | Eventbrite is a U.S.-based event management and ticketing website providing event promoting services. This domain belongs to Eventbrite. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| IDE | This domain is owned by Doubleclick [Google]. The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| igodigitalst_7227074 | This domain is owned by ExactTarget Marketing Cloud, who provide online marketing services. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| igodigitalstdomain | This domain is owned by ExactTarget Marketing Cloud, who provide online marketing services. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| igodigitaltc2 | This domain is owned by ExactTarget Marketing Cloud, who provide online marketing services. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| lang | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. This sub-domain is connected with LinkedIn's marketing services that enable website owners to gain insight into types of users on their site based on LinkedIn profile data, to improve targetng. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| lang | 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. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| li_gc | 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. | 5 Months | Third Party |
| 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. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| mgref | Eventbrite is a U.S.-based event management and ticketing website providing event promoting services. This domain belongs to Eventbrite. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| MSPTC | This domain is owned by Microsoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| MUID | This domain is owned by Mircosoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| SP | Eventbrite is a U.S.-based event management and ticketing website providing event promoting services. This domain belongs to Eventbrite. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| SS | Eventbrite is a U.S.-based event management and ticketing website providing event promoting services. This domain belongs to Eventbrite. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| stableId | Eventbrite is a U.S.-based event management and ticketing website providing event promoting services. This domain belongs to Eventbrite. | 1 Year | Third Party |
| tableau_public_negotiated_locale | This cookie collects information on how users use the Tableau functionality. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| test_cookie | This domain is owned by Doubleclick [Google]. The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| UserMatchHistory | 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. | 1 Month | Third Party |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos. | 5 Months | Third Party |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | 5 Months | Third Party |
| YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
| This domain is owned by Facebook, which is the world's largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies. | Less than 1 Day | Third Party |
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4.1
Our website also uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help our Websites analyse how users use the sites. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our Websites (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
4.2
Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our Websites, compiling reports on Website activity for Website operators and providing other services relating to Website activity and internet usage. 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 our Websites, you consent to the processing of data about you by CIPD, its subsidiaries and Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
CIPD Cookie Policy
March 2026