What are cookies?
Cookies are small, often encrypted, text files, which are stored on your computer when you visit some websites. They are used to remember useful information which allows certain functionality within the website to work, for example remembering where you have reached within an order process, or if you’ve logged in to a site. Cookies can’t harm your computer.
What cookies we use
Session Cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function and will be set regardless of whether you allow other cookies. These cookies are not stored on your computer and will be deleted when you close your web browser.
Functionality Cookies
The functionality cookies that we use allow us to monitor patterns of traffic on our website, accurately measure the success of our campaigns and allow you to interact with social media while on our site.
Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
More Information About Cookies
To learn more about cookies, including how to manage them and how they affect your Online activities, please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org You can also learn how to control cookies on different browsers at www.aboutcookies.org/how-tocontrol-cookies/ or if you want to know how to delete cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/.
You can also manage your preferences for what types of advertising you receive on other websites using Your Online Choices.
Please note that these are third party websites and Learning and Work Institute is not responsible for their contents.
A full list of our cookies can be found here.
| Name | Cookie | Purpose | Retention period |
| Website functionality | |||
| _cfduid | Used by the content network Cloudflare to identify trusted web traffic. | 1 year | |
| PHPSESSID | Used to preserve a user session across page requests. | Session | |
| Google Analytics | |||
| _ga | Used by Google Analytics to track page and site usage. This helps Learning and Work Institute to improve visitor and enhance experience. | 2 years | |
| _gat, _gid | Used by Google Analytics to track page and site usage. | Session | |
| Events booking | |||
| ee_cookie_test | Used for events espresso system to track individual users. | Session | |
| Marketing | |||
| Social sharing | __atuvc | Updates the counter of a website’s social sharing features. | 13 months |
| __atuvs | Ensures that the updated counter is displayed to the used if a page is shared with the social sharing service. | Session | |
| _at.cww, at-lojson-cache-#, at-rand | Used by the social sharing platform. | Persistent | |
| bt2 | Used by the social sharing platform. | 255 days | |
| uvc | Detects how often the social sharing service AddThis detects the same user. | 13 months | |
| uid | Creates a unique, machine generated user ID to make it possible for the user to share content across social networks and provide detailed statistics to various providers. | 1 year | |
| xtc | Registers the user’s sharing of content via social media. | 13 months | |
| vc | Used by the social sharing platform. | 1 year | |
| Ad tracking/ Google Adwords | Bkdc, bku | Registers annoymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has as clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same network. | 179 days |
| csync | Optimises ad display based on the user’s movement combined and various advertiser bids for displaying. | 13 months | |
| pid | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. Th e ID is used for targeted ads. | 13 months | |
| uuid, uuidc | Collects data on the user’s visits to the website such as what pages have been loaded. Th e registered data is used for targeted ads. | ||
| ads/ga-audiences | Used by Google AdWords to re-en gage visitors that are likely to con vert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. | Session | |
| User ID | |||
| Script tags | di2, mus, ouid | Script tags | 1 year |
| Geo-location | loc | Used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (county level). | 13 months |
| Device identification | TapAd_DID, TapAd_TS | Used to determine what type of devices (smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs etc.) is used by a user. | 2 months |
| SEUNCY | Registers a unique ID that identifies the user’s device for return visits. | 179 days | |
| TestIfCookieP | Identifies new users and generates a unique ID for each user. | 13 months |
