We use Google Analytics and Siteimprove software to collect information about how you use our website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements, for example improving site search.
Google Analytics and Siteimprove stores information about:
- - the pages you visit on our website.
- - how long you spend on each website page
- - how you got to the site
- - what you click on while you're visiting the site
We do not collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so this information can't be used to identify who you are.
google analytics cookies used on our website| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|
| _ga | Google analytics - used to distinguish users. | 2 years |
| _gat | Google analytics - used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager | 1 minute |
| _gid | Google analytics - used to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
| _gcl_au | Google Tag Manager sets this cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | 3 months |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 24 days |
Microsoft/Bing Ads cookies used on our website| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|
| _uetsid | This contains the session ID for a unique session on the site. Note: As of as of July 2023, _uetsid has been updated with additional parameters as follows: insights_sessionId, timestamp, pagenumber, upgrade, upload. | 1 day |
| _uetvid | Bing Ads sets this cookie to engage with a user that has previously visited the website. | 1 year 24 days |
| MUID | This is a Microsoft cookie that contains a GUID assigned to your browser. It gets set when you interact with a Microsoft property, including a UET beacon call or a visit to a Microsoft property through the browser. | 1 year 24 days |
| _uetmsclkid | This is the Microsoft Click ID, which is used to improve the accuracy of conversion tracking.
Note: UET sets a first-party cookie on your siteÕs domain for this parameter. When auto-tagging of the Microsoft Click ID is enabled, the ad click information is generated at ad click time and appended to the landing page URL. | 1 year 24 days |
Siteimprove cookies
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|
| AWSELBCORS | Analytics | At end of Session |
| __cfduid | Analytics | 1 year |
| nmstat | Analytics | 2 years |
