PLATFORM COOKIE POLICY
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 allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. 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, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- 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.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below. These cookies are part of the ASP.NET / Azure infrastructure:
.AspNet.ApplicationCookie
This cookie is used to identify user sessions (a session relates to a user, and begins when you log in and ends when you log out).
.AspNet.ApplicationCookie expires when the user logs out, or after 14 days, whichever is sooner.
ARRAffinity
This cookie is used so that if you have multiple webservers, the web requests for a user session will always be routed to the same webserver. This is a sessional cookie, so will only be placed on your computer whilst you are visiting the site. It ensures you remain connected to the site for the duration of your visit.
ARRAffinity cookie expires when the user logs out, or when the session ends (which is limited by the expiry of the .AspNet.Application cookie to 14 days)
_RequestVerificationToken
This cookie is used to prevent CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks. CSRF is an attack that forces you to execute unwanted actions on a web application in which they're currently authenticated.
_RequestVerificationToken expires when the user logs out, or after 20 minutes, whichever is sooner.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, employer companies advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
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 allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies. 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, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- 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.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below. These cookies are part of the ASP.NET / Azure infrastructure:
.AspNet.ApplicationCookie
This cookie is used to identify user sessions (a session relates to a user, and begins when you log in and ends when you log out).
.AspNet.ApplicationCookie expires when the user logs out, or after 14 days, whichever is sooner.
ARRAffinity
This cookie is used so that if you have multiple webservers, the web requests for a user session will always be routed to the same webserver. This is a sessional cookie, so will only be placed on your computer whilst you are visiting the site. It ensures you remain connected to the site for the duration of your visit.
ARRAffinity cookie expires when the user logs out, or when the session ends (which is limited by the expiry of the .AspNet.Application cookie to 14 days)
_RequestVerificationToken
This cookie is used to prevent CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks. CSRF is an attack that forces you to execute unwanted actions on a web application in which they're currently authenticated.
_RequestVerificationToken expires when the user logs out, or after 20 minutes, whichever is sooner.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, employer companies advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
