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| Cookie | Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Social media | AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the designated countries |
| Social media | li_gc | Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes |
| Marketing tracker | AWSALBCORS | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBCORS (ALB). |
| Google Universal Analitycs | _ga | 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. |
| Google Analytics | _gid | This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. |
| Social media | _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
| Social media | UserMatchHistory | This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor's preferences. |
| Social media | bcookie | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. |
| Social media | lidc | This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. |
| Social media | bscookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. |
| PHP | PHPSESSID | Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, it is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. |
| Third party | visitor_id520631 | This is a cookie pattern that appends a unique identifier for a website visitor, used for tracking purposes. The cookies in this domain have a lifespan of 10 years. |
| YouTube tracking | YSC | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. |
| YouTube tracking | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. |
| Website use | IDE | 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. |
| Language selection | FORCE_LANGUAGEA | This cookie is used to remember any selection a user has made about language on ico.org.uk, using the language selector, so that the site will be shown in their chosen language when returning to the site. |