Our Use of Cookies

Why we use cookies

Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

  • enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
  • recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
  • measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
  • analysing data to help us understand how you use online services so we can improve them

Our use of cookies

Important information about this list of cookies: whilst we aim to keep this up to date this site does also use services from third parties such as YouTube (Video), Vimeo (Video), Adroll and Disquss (Social Comments) and so we cannot guarantee that we have full disclosure of cookies placed by these third parties. This site also offers the ability to share our content on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. Each of these sites has the ability to set cookies on your computer and if you would like to know more about this, please contact the relevant website to learn more about the cookies that they may use.

Cookies used in the normal operation of this website

This website uses a number of cookies in its day to day operations. These cookies do not contain personal data and are not disclosed to third parties or used for advertising or promotional purposes. These are as follows:

Name: SAGRVC
Typical content: date of first visit used for understanding repeat visit behaviour and capacity planning. This does not identify you as an individual.
Expires: 10 years

Name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Typical content: randomly generated alphanumeric string used by Microsoft servers in normal operations
Expires: when user finishes their visit

Name: REFOBJ
Typical content: numeric identifier for known website referrers e.g. Google Paid Advertising
Expires: when user finishes their visit

Name: 3 Jacksons CommercialCookieCSSID
Typical content: numeric identifier for current style sheet being used (default or accessible/hi-vis)
Expires: 1 year from initial selection

Cookies for measuring use of services

By understanding how people use the website we can improve the content and functionality provided. This also ensures that the service is available when you want it and fast. We use a number of different methods of gathering this data, including services provided by the following companies.

Google Analytics

Name: _utma
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years

Name: _utmb
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 30 minutes

Name: _utmc
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser

Name: _utmz
Typical content: randomly generated number and information about how the page was reached (eg directly or via a link, organic search or paid search)
Expires: 6 months

Name: __utmmobile
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years

For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, see: Cookies set by Google Analytics

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