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AI_buffer
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Session
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Category
Essential Cookies
Description
Cookies set by Microsoft Application Insights, which allow Insights to monitor the health and status of the server and website.
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AI_sentBuffer
Duration
Session
Type
Category
Essential Cookies
Description
Cookies set by Microsoft Application Insights, which allow Insights to monitor the health and status of the server and website.
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ARRAffinitySameSite
Duration
Session
Type
Category
Essential Cookies
Description
Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.
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ASP NET_SessionId
Duration
.
Type
Category
Essential Cookies
Description
Used by Microsoft .NET-based sites to maintain an anonymized user session by the server. This cookie expires at the end of a browsing session which is determined by the application configuration.
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SERVERID
Duration
10 minutes
Type
Category
Essential Cookies
Description
Usually used for load balancing. Identifies the server that delivered the last page to the browser. Associated with the HAProxy Load Balancer software.
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X-AB
Duration
Type
Category
Essential Cookies
Description
This cookie is used by the website’s operator in context with multi-variate testing. This is a tool used to combine or change content on the website. This allows the website to find the best variation/edition of the site.
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__RequestVerificationToken
Duration
Session
Type
Category
Essential Cookies
Description
This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser.
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__stripe_mid
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Session
Type
Category
Essential Cookies
Description
This cookie is necessary for making credit card transaction s on the website. The service is provided by Stripe.com which allows online transactions without storing any credit card in formation.
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__stripe_sid
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Type
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Essential Cookies
Description
This cookie is associated with Calendly, a Meeting Schedulers that some websites employ. This cookie allows the meeting scheduler to function within the website.
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__tlbcpv
Duration
Type
Category
Essential Cookies
Description
Used to record unique visitor views of the consent banner.
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eud
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Type
Category
Functional Cookies
Description
This cookie contains partner user ids and last successful cookie match time with partners. Persistent cookie that stays for 13 months
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euds
Duration
Type
Category
Functional Cookies
Description
A session cookie of the eud cookie
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ARRAffinity
Duration
Session
Type
Category
Functional Cookies
Description
Used by websites running on the Windows Azure cloud platform for load balancing.
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gex_id
Duration
Session
Type
FirstParty
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Functional Cookies
Description
Allows Google Experience Editor cookies to persist across subdomains
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ai_session
Duration
1 day
Type
Category
Functional Cookies
Description
Monitors the performance of the iperceptions portal of applications running on Azure
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ai_user
Duration
Type
Category
Functional Cookies
Description
It collects telemetry information and statistical usage for the Microsoft Application Insights software. It is able to recognize users on return visits by storing unique identifiers.
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___utmvxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Duration
a few seconds
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Category
Functional Cookies
Description
___utmv
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bounce
Duration
Type
Category
Analytics Cookies
Description
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SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE
Duration
10 years
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Category
Analytics Cookies
Description
This cookie name is associated with the Sitecore Content Management System as is used for web analytics to identify repeat visits by unique users.
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collect
Duration
Type
Category
Analytics Cookies
Description
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_gat_UA-10500881-1
Duration
1 minute
Type
Category
Analytics Cookies
Description
This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It is a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
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g_pixel
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Type
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Analytics Cookies
Description
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MR
Duration
Type
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Analytics Cookies
Description
Microsoft MSN cookie. Used to measure the use of the website for internal analytics.
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pagevisit
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Type
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Analytics Cookies
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partner
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Type
Category
Analytics Cookies
Description
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tag
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Type
Category
Analytics Cookies
Description
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_ga
Duration
730 days
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FirstParty
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Analytics Cookies
Description
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
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_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
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Type
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Analytics Cookies
Description
The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information.
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_hjIncludedInSessionSample
Duration
Type
Category
Analytics Cookies
Description
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit
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_gid
Duration
1 day
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FirstParty
Category
Analytics Cookies
Description
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
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gex_id
Duration
Session
Type
ThirdParty
Category
Analytics Cookies
Description
This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: Analytics Services
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_hjFirstSeen
Duration
30 minutes
Type
ThirdParty
Category
Analytics Cookies
Description
Hotjar performance analysis cookie which marks user as being included in an anonymous sample group
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_hjid
Duration
a few seconds
Type
Category
Analytics Cookies
Description
Hotjar performance analysis cookie which marks user as being included in an anonymous sample group
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_hjIncludedInPageviewSample
Duration
a few seconds
Type
Category
Analytics Cookies
Description
Hotjar performance analysis cookie which marks user as being included in an anonymous sample group
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anj
Duration
3 months
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie contains data denoting whether a cookie ID is synced with an AppNexus partner.
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audience
Duration
28 days
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
Sync audience data between buyers and sellers.
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CMID
Duration
1 year
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
These cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at.
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CMPRO
Duration
3 months
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
These cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at.
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CMPS
Duration
3 months
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
These cookies are linked to advertising and tracking the products users were looking at.
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demdex
Duration
6 months
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie helps Adobe Audience Manger perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modelling, reporting and so on.
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dpm
Duration
6 months
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
Adobe Audience Manager - data management platform uses this cookie to record information around synchronisation of IDs.
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MUID
Duration
1 year
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded Microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking.
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pxrc
Duration
2 months
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie registers non-personal data on the visitor. The information is used to optimize advertisement relevance.
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tuuid
Duration
1 year
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie is mainly set by bidswitch.net to make advertising messages more appropriate to the website visitor.
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tuuid_lu
Duration
1 year
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
Contains a unique visitor ID, which allows Bidswitch.com to track the visitor across multiple websites. This allows Bidswitch to optimize advertisement relevance and ensure that the visitor does not see the same ads multiple times.
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_gcl_au
Duration
3 months
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services
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_uetsid
Duration
1 day
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be appropriate to the customer using the site.
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_uetvid
Duration
1 year
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.
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everest_g_v2
Duration
1 year
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
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fr
Duration
90 days
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising.
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recordID
Duration
1 year
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie name is associated with services from UK email marketing company DotMailer. Their software placed on a website enables the owners to track when email campaign recipients land on the target website, which enables monitoring of the effectiveness of a campaign. This cookie is a unique user identifier, enabling persistent linking of behaviour on the site to a particular user and email campaign response.
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IDE
Duration
1 year
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie is set by DoubleClick and carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
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personalization_id
Duration
2 years
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
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rlcdncom
Duration
1 year
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie is generally provided by rlcdn.com and is used for advertising purposes.
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ruds
Duration
Session
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked.
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sc_at
Duration
1 year
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
Used to identify a visitor across multiple domains.
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UID
Duration
1 year
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie provides a uniquely assigned, machine-generated user ID and gathers data about activity on the website. This data may be sent to a 3rd party for analysis and reporting.
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uuid2
Duration
3 months
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie allows targeted advertising through the App Nexus platform - collects anonymous data on ad views IP address, page views, and more.
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_kuid_
Duration
6 months
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
Name
_scid
Duration
1 year 1 month
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
Used to help identify a visitor.
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dmSessionID
Duration
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
A session ID is a unique number that a Web site's server assigns a specific user for the duration of that user's visit (session). The session ID can be stored as a cookie, form field, or URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Some Web servers generate session IDs by incrementing static numbers.
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tap_php
Duration
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
Used to register anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user's movement on websites that use the same ad network.
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YSC
Duration
Session
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
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_fbp
Duration
Type
Category
Targeting Cookies
Description
Facebook Targeting/Advertising Persistent Cookie. Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
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