Cookie Policy

What are Cookies


  • Assisting you in navigation;
  • Analysing your use of our products, services or applications;


How to control & delete cookies

You can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your web browser. By default, your browser will accept Cookies, however this can be altered. If you want to restrict or block the cookies we set, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘help’ function within your browser should tell you how. Disabling Cookies may prevent you from using the full range of Services available on the website and you may lose any information that enables you to access the website more quickly.

Name of Cookie Domain Duration of storage Purpose
lang Session Remembers the user's selected language version of a website.
PREF 2 years This cookie remembers the preference (such as zoom or volume levels) of a user when interacting with a specific feature on a web page (google maps, youtube video etc).
JSESSIONID Session Performance tracking across the website
PHPSESSID Session Preserves user session state across page requests.
bcookie 1 year Browser ID cookie - Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services.
BizoID 6 months LinkedIn Ad Analytics
lidc 1 day Routing, tracking use of embedded services.
NID 6 months Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning users device. The ID is used for targeted ads. 
UserMatchHistory 6 months LinkedIn Ad Analytics
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 8 months Tries to estimate the users bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos
YSC Session Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube a user has seen
eu-accept-cookies 1 year The user has acknowledged that cookies are in use on this site.
IDE   Google advertising cookie used for user tracking and ad targeting purposes


Strictly Necessary Cookies



Newrelic New Relic provides application performance monitoring which is essentially server monitoring, allowing developers to know if there are any issues with the site. New Relic will notify the developers if an error occurs on the website rather then users having to report it to the company. This allows developers to limit the errors on the website making sure all features are working therefore making the user experience as fault free as possible.
Google Tag Manager Tag Manager is a tool for non-developers to be able to add tags to the website such as Linkedin or Facebook. Thus allowing them to link certain social media accounts to the site ensuring the website is accessible to the company’s target audience.
Googleapis Google Api's are developed by Google to allow developers to include certain Google features in their website. The example found in this website is the Google map found on the contact page. This could also be used for such things as 'google+ sign in' allowing users to link their Google account to any accounts they make with this website, thus limiting the number of usernames and passwords they need to remember This is Google Fonts. They are used on our websites to allow for an aesthetic look with the aim to engage users and make sure they enjoy viewing the website while they use it.


Targeting Cookies


LinkedIn Targeted advertising cookies from LinkedIn. The LinkedIn Insight Tag is a lightweight JavaScript tag that powers conversion tracking, retargeting, and web analytics for LinkedIn ad campaigns. The Insight Tag should be incorporated as a standard component of all of your website's pages to enable these LinkedIn Marketing Solutions features.
YouTube On this particular website there are YouTube videos. These are used on the website in iframes, which are essentially small windows to another website. This allows us to show the user items from another website without them leaving this website. For example, the YouTube videos found on this website. DoubleClick is a Google feature that is used to track the websites a user visits, allowing them to then show adverts specific to a user’s interests
LinkedIn Lead forensics allows the owners of a website to view the source domains of users that have visited the website. This means if someone from another company is regularly viewing the website the owners of the site will know and be able to contact them to make sure that they are getting the information and items that they require, allowing them to create business connections and potentially partnerships further down the line. This tool is used for corporate purposes and so if the user is visiting the site from home, unless they own their own domain, it will just give the name of the internet service provider and that is all.


Performance Cookies



Google Analytics Google Analytics is a tool that allows us to view how users interact with the website.  For example, how users navigate through the website and which are the most popular pages. This allows us to tailor the website and the information provided to ensure the users have the most pleasant experience while using the website. This can also be used for some basic fault tolerance, for example if a particular page is not being viewed, or a specific link is never being clicked. This then gives us an early warning sign that this may not be working or could do with being enhanced to allow users to notice or use it more often.