| Cookie | Name | Purpose | More Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous Session | .ASPXANONYMOUS | This cookie helps maintain your visit to our website anonymously (before you may log in to a secure area). | General cookie information |
| Anti-forgery Token | __RequestVerificationToken_Lw__ | Cookie used to prevent cross site request forgery. | General cookie information |
| Google Analytics | _utma | Stores the amount of visits (for each visitor), the time of the first visit, the previous visit, and the current visit | Google Analytics Information |
| _utmb _utmc |
Used to check approximately how fast a website visitor leaves: when a visit starts, and approximately ends (‘c’ expires quickly). | ||
| _utmt | Used to throttle request rate. | ||
| _utmz | Records whether the visitor came from a search engine (and if so, the search keyword used), a link, or from no previous page (e.g. a bookmark). | ||
| Google Analytics | _ga _gid |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. | Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data |
| Session ID | ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie. Used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. This cookie helps keep your browsing session private. Deleted once browser closed. |
General cookie information |
| Currency | currencyData | Determines currency based on country IP address location – only holds currency value, e.g. GBP. Deleted once browser closed. | Custom cookie |
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