Cookie Management

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Strictly Necessary

These cookies allow you to move around our websites and apps and access secure areas of our websites and apps. Without them, we cannot provide the services you want on our websites and apps. You do not need to give us consent for necessary cookies to be used – they will be set automatically if you use our website or apps.

Name	Expires	Purpose
ASP.NET_SessionId	Session	ASP.Net_SessionId is a cookie which is used to identify the users session on the server. The session being an area on the server which can be used to store session state in between http requests.
GS1_cookies	Session	Cookie that remembers users' privacy choices.
CookieAdvertising	6 months	Cookie that remembers users' privacy choices.
CookieFunctional	6 months	Cookie that remembers users' privacy choices.
CookiePerformance	6 months	Cookie that remembers users' privacy choices.
CookieYoutube	6 months	Cookie that remembers users' privacy choices.

Functional

These allow our website to remember choices that you have made on our websites previously. They 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 of these services may not function properly.

Name	Expires	Purpose
lang	Never	Used to set default locale/language.
ep201	1 month	used to collect information about how survey monkey respondents interact with surveys.
ep202	1 month	used to collect information about how survey monkey respondents interact with surveys.
ep203	1 month	used to collect information about how survey monkey respondents interact with surveys.
CX_262665195	1 year	used to collect information about how survey monkey respondents interact with surveys.
s	1 month	used for google docs functionality.
lidc	1 day	To optimize data center selection for linkedin.
visid_incap__	1 year	These first party cookies are set by a third party service to filter out malicious requests. The information generated cannot identify you as an individual.
incap_ses__	session	These first party cookies are set by a third party service to filter out malicious requests. The information generated cannot identify you as an individual.
bm_sz	4 hours	A functionality Cookie placed by mailchimp to manage and control list.
_abck	12 months	Akamai Bot Manager – Security cookie this cookie is through mailchimp service.
_mcid	14 days	The cookie is a cookie set by Mail Chimp to enable behavioral advertising and analytics by Google.

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Do not use cookies that remember your preferences

Video

A category of Functional cookies specific to video used to provide services you’ve asked for, like watching a video or webinar recording on our website.

Name	Expires	Purpose
GPS	1 day	YouTube cookies which registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.
IDE	1 year	Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	180 days	This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites; it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface.
YSC	Session	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
vuid	2 years	Used by Vimeo to collect anonymous analytics tracking information.

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Performance

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.

Name	Expires	Purpose
_hjid	Session	Set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, and ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	30 minutes	This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample	30 minutes	This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.
_hjTLDTest	Session	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.
li_gc	2 years	Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes.
_ga	2 years	Google Analytics. Tells us how you use our websites. Used to ensure the website operates sufficiently for users.
_gat	1 minute	Google Analytics. Helps stop Google Analytics web servers crashing when collecting information on how you use our websites. Used to ensure the website operates sufficiently for users.
_gid	24 hours	Google Analytics. Sets a unique (anonymous) ID for your session to help tell us how you use our websites. Used to ensure the website operates sufficiently for users.
_gali	30 seconds	Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked.
___utma	Session	This cookie enables the function of Google Analytics.
___utmb	Session	This cookie enables the function of Google Analytics.
___utmc	Session	This cookie enables the function of Google Analytics.
lissc	1 year	Used to ensure there is correct SameSite attribute for all cookies in that browser.
SM_COOKIE	60 days	This domain is owned by Survey Monkey, a USA based business. Third party cookies associated with this domain are usually related to survey and questionnaire functionality in a website.
attr_multitouch	1 year	This domain is owned by Survey Monkey, a USA based business. Third party cookies associated with this domain are usually related to survey and questionnaire functionality in a website.

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Do not use cookies that measure website use

Advertising

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.

Name	Expires	Purpose
_fbp	3 months	to store and track visits across websites.
bcookie	2 years	Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform.
fr	3 months	Enable ad delivery or retargeting.
NID	1 year	Used to remember google search settings.
smcx_0_last_shown_at	session	Used in context with the website’s pop-up questionnaires and messengering. The data is used for statistical or marketing purposes.
_gcl_au	3 months	to store and track conversions.

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