Use of information
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
How We Use Cookies
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Disabling Cookies
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Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties.
Cookies
The following section details which cookies you might encounter through this site.
- .AspNet.Consent
- This cookie is used to record that you accept the fact that our site uses cookies.
- .AspNetCore.Antiforgery
- This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user.
- .AspNetCore.Cookies
- ASP.NET Authentication cookie, used to identify a logged-in user to enable access to secure areas of a site
- ARRAffinity
- This cookie is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session.
- ARRAffinitySameSite
- This cookie is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session.
- ai_session
- This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statictical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie.
- ai_user
- Those cookie names are associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. ai_session - This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie. ai_user - This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time.
- MC1
- These web analytics cookies, provided by Microsoft Inc., are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. More Info: Microsoft Privacy Statement: Cookies & Similar Technologies.
- MS0
- Used by Microsoft to keep statistics on what pages the user has visited and how often an ad click leads to a purchase or other actions on the advertiser's website.
- MUID
- Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations.