Cookies
Cookie: Social media
Name: AnalyticsSyncHistory
Purpose: Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the designated countries
Cookie: Social media
Name: li_gc
Purpose: Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes
Cookie: Marketing tracker
Name: AWSALBCORS
Purpose: 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).
Cookie: Google Universal Analitycs
Name: _ga
Purpose: 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.
Cookie: Google Analytics
Name: _gid
Purpose: 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.
Cookie: Social media
Name: _fbp
Purpose: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
Cookie: Social media
Name: UserMatchHistory
Purpose: This cookie is used to track visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented based on the visitor’s preferences.
Cookie: Social media
Name: bcookie
Purpose: This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media.
Cookie: Social media
Name: lidc
Purpose: This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website.
Cookie: Social media
Name: bscookie
Purpose: Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
Cookie: PHP
Name: PHPSESSID
Purpose: 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.
Cookie: Third party
Name: visitor_id520631
Purpose: 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.
Cookie: YouTube tracking
Name: YSC
Purpose: This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos.
Cookie: YouTube tracking
Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Purpose: 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.
Cookie: Website use
Name: IDE
Purpose: 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.
Cookie: Language selection
Name: FORCE_LANGUAGEA
Purpose: 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.