Cookies

What cookies are, how they are used on this website, and manage which cookies are used.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

To navigate our website and use all the features and functionality, some strictly necessary cookies are required. The website cannot function without these cookies. You can not opt out of these.

You can choose to opt out of marketing and analytics cookies.

What cookies are

This website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are saved to your device when you use our website. They perform important functions such as remembering logins and preferences and help us to measure the performance of the website so that we can continue to improve our online services. 

We won’t use cookies on this website that collect information about what other websites you visit (often referred to as privacy intrusive cookies). 

Our cookies aren’t used to identify you personally. They’re just here to make the site work better for you. You can manage and/or delete these files as you wish. 

Unless the law allows us to, we do not: 

  • share any of the data we collect about you with others, or 
  • use this data to identify individuals 

Managing Cookies 

You can prevent the downloading of cookies on your device, block their use or receive notification that cookies are being downloaded by changing the settings on your web browser. However, please be aware that blocking or restricting the use of cookies may prevent you from benefiting from some of our website’s features.  

To find out more or control and delete cookies as you wish, visit allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers: 

Further guidance on the use of personal information can be found at the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).  

You can also find further information on the Information Commissioner’s Office website about cookies https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/  

Types of Cookies being used 

This website uses the following cookies: 

Strictly Necessary Cookies 

These are required cookies that this website cannot function without.

Name of cookie  Purpose Expires
cookie-agreed  Used to store your cookie preferences  100 days 
cookie-agreed-version Used to store your cookie preferences 100 days
cookie-agreed-categories Used to store your cookie preferences 100 days
localtime Used to calculate local time from UTC time When browser is closed
APP_LANG Used to identify the language used to view the site 24 hours
language Used to identify the language used to view the site When browser is closed
PHPSESSIONID Used to identify your session When browser is closed
SimpleSAMLSessionID Used to identify your session When browser is closed
.ASPXANONYMOUS Used to identify your session 70 days
JSESSIONID Used to identify your session When browser is closed
__RequestVerificationToken Used to identify your session When browser is closed
AWSALB Used to ensure that you are directed to the same server in our platform 7 days
AWSALBCORS Used to ensure that you are directed to the same server in our platform 7 days
SERVERID Used to ensure that you are directed to the same server in our platform When browser is closed
ApplicationGatewayAffinity Used to ensure that you are directed to the same server in our platform When browser is closed
ApplicationGatewayAffinityCORS Used to ensure that you are directed to the same server in our platform When browser is closed
X-Mapping-onachilo Used to ensure that you are directed to the same server in our platform When browser is closed
product Used to identify the Achieve Forms product that you are accessing 24 hours

Analytics Cookies  

We use Analytics cookies to help us understand how visitors interact with our websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. We use statistics cookies to analyse anonymised usage patterns.

Name of cookie  Purpose Expires
_ga  Used to identify unique users  2 years 
_gid  Used to identify unique users  24 hours 
_ga_MJ7990QG6L  Used to identify an individual session within your device  2 years 

_gac_gb_MJ7990QG6L

Used to identify which source or campaign you have reached the website from 90 days
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress Used to detect your first pageview session 30 minutes
_hjFirstSession Used to identify your first session 30 minutes
_hjIncludedInSessionSample_3429122 Used to determine if your session is part of the sample of data we collect 2 minutes
_hjSession_3429122 Used to hold current session data 30 minutes
_hjSessionUser_3429122 Used to identify unique users 1 year

Marketing Cookies

We use YouTube cookies to show videos on some of our webpages. YouTube sets cookies when you visit one of these pages.

Name of cookie Purpose Expires
YSC Used to identify your browser  When browser is closed
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE  Used to count the number of views of embedded YouTube videos  9 months