Privacy and cookies
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
Our use of cookies
Used by | Name | Typical Content | Expires | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Google Analytics | _ga | Used to distinguish users | Two years | Google Analytics will set a cookie to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage |
_ga_<container-id> | Used to persist session state | Two years | ||
| _gid | Used to distinguish users | 24 hours | ||
_gat | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_property-id> | One minute | ||
YouTube | visitor_infor1_live | N/A | Eight months from set/update | This cookie measures your bandwidth to determine whether you get the new player interface or the old |
ysc | N/A | At the end of the session (closing the browser window) | This cookie is set by the YouTube video service on pages with embedded YouTube video | |
ReciteMe | Recite.Persist | N/A | When user exits browser | This stores a flag to indicate whether the toolbar should persist between pages or not |
Recite.Preferences | N/A | Persist until visitors clears it | This stores the users current settings so that they can be reapplied on subsequent pages | |
Microsoft Application Insights Software Microsoft Application Insights software collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. | ai_session | N/A | When user exits browser | This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie |