Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

About cookies

Cookies are information packets sent by web servers to web browsers, and stored by the web browsers.  The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables a web server to identify and track web browsers.

This website uses cookies to provide you with a service you have requested. You may not be able to use the website effectively without these cookies.

Analytics cookies are used to understand how users engage with our website, improve performance and monitor statistics to provide the most relevant and useful content to you.

Cookies allow you to share content directly to your social networking sites for example Facebook, Twitter and Google+ i.e. clicking Like on Facebook and Share on Twitter.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

For reference, our Privacy Notice sets out full details of the other information we may collect and how we may use your personal information and can be accessed here:  Privacy Policy 

Control your cookie settings

Once you have given us your agreement to the use of cookies, we will store a cookie on your computer or device to remember this for next time. If you wish to withdraw your agreement at any time, you will need to delete our cookies using your internet browser settings. You should do this through the browser settings for each browser you use. Please be aware that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the usability of our website. However, you can allow cookies from specific websites by making them “trusted websites” in your internet browser. The following links may assist you in managing your cookies settings, or you can use the ‘Help’ option in your internet browser for more details:

If you share the use of a computer, accepting or rejecting the use of cookies may affect all users of that computer.

The cookies we use and why

 


1. Dynamics 365 tracking code sets the following cookies when you visit our site:
Cookie name Vendor Purpose First or Third Party Properties
79f08280-5c63-4331-b04d-fb6f39afda51 Dynamics 365 Behaviour tracking Third Party Persistent, secure, HttpOnly
319af4c0-e197-4de9-8a9b-fe98c8a2ca04 Dynamics 365 Session tracking Third Party Session, secure, HttpOnly
msd365mkttr Dynamics 365 Behaviour First party Persistent, client-side
msd365mkttrs Dynamics 365 Session tracking First party Session, client-side
 

2. The Google Analytics library called analytics.js sets the following cookies:

Cookie name Vendor Description Persistency Function
_ga Google Analytics Tracking a user’s journey around a website over time. 2 years Used to distinguish users
_gid Google Analytics Enables us to identify which pages are popular, estimate our audience size and usage pattern, and better understand how the web site is used. 24 hours Used to distinguish users
_gat Google Analytics This cookie does not store any user information, it’s just used to limit the number of requests that have to be made to doubleclick.net. 1 minute Used to throttle request rate.
AMP_TOKEN Google Analytics
Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.
30 seconds to 1 year Used to identify if the same user accessed the site from different origins, e.g., they found the site via a Google Search or whether they went to the site directly.
_gac_<property-id> Google Analytics
Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and AdWords accounts, AdWords website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out.
90 days Analytics writes campaign information to the _gac cookie when a user opens a page on your site via a URL that employs AdWords auto-tagging.

 

Google Analytics cookies

This website avails of Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: google.com/policies/privacy.