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How we use cookies

We use cookies for several purposes on this website – we've listed each of them below with more details about why we use them and how long they'll last.

Essential cookies

Introductory message

  • jisc-cookie: We show all new visitors an introductory message that links to this page. This cookie is used to track when you've dismissed the message so that we don't show it to you again. Expires after 1 year.

reCAPTCHA

We use Google reCAPTCHA for forms on this site which requires cookies to be set by Google.

  • NID: A unique identifier that Google uses to track users between sites. Expires after 6 months.

For more information about how Google uses cookies, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy.

Other cookies

Matomo

The Matomo analytics platform allows us to track usage of this site, so that we can improve the service for our users. No personal data is collected.

  • _pk_id: Used to store details and identify a visitor of the site. Expires after 13 months.
  • _pk_ses: Used to store details about a visitor's activity on the site. Expires after 30 minutes.
  • AWSALBCORS: This cookie is managed by Amazon Web Services and is used for load balancing. Expires after 7 days.
  • AWSALB: Performance AWSALB is an application load balancer cookie set by Amazon Web Services to map the session to the target. Expires after 7 days.

YouTube

  • GPS: Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. Retention period: 1 day. Third party: No
  • VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE: Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Also used for marketing. Retention period: 6 months. Third party: No
  • PREF: This cookie stores your preferences and other information, in particular preferred language, how many search results you wish to be shown on your page, and whether or not you wish to have Google's SafeSearch filter turned on. Retention period: 10 years. Third party: No
  • YSC: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Retention period: Session. Third party: No
  • DEVICE_INFO: Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR compliance of the website. Retention policy: 180 days. Third party: Yes
  • LOGIN_INFO: This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. Retention period: 2 years. Third party: Yes
  • VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA: YouTube visitor privacy metadata cookie. Retention period: 6 months. Third party: No

This site embeds videos from YouTube, which sets some cookies for its own use.

Amazon Web Services

  • AWSALB: These cookies enable us to allocate server traffic to make the user experience as smooth as possible. A so-called load balancer is used to determine which server currently has the best availability. The information generated cannot identify you as an individual. Retention period: 7 days. Third party: No
  • AWSALBCORS: For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBCORS(ALB). Retention period: 7 days. Third party: No
  • AWSELBCORS: For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSELBCORS(ALB). Retention period: Session. Third party: No
  • AWSELB: AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Retention period: Session. Third party: No
  • AWSALBTGCORS: For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBTGCORS(ALB). Retention period: Session. Third party: No
  • AWSALBTG: For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSELBCORS(ALB). Retention period: Session. Third party: No
  • aws-csds-token: Anonymous metrics validation token. Retention period: 1 hour. Third party: No
  • aws_lang: Stores the language used with AWS. Retention period: 1 year. Third party: No
  • aws-priv: Anonymous cookie for privacy regulations. Retention period: 1 year. Third party: No

CookieControl

  • CookieControl: Stores user consent preferences for your website. Retention period: 3 months. Third party: No
  • CookieControlTC: Stores IAB TCF consent preferences. Retention period: 3 months. Third party: Unknown

We make every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information held in our cookie database, though cannot guarantee this.

Cookie guidance wording adapted from www.gov.uk, shared under the Open Government License.

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