Cookies on the NIHR.AC.UK website
Performance Cookies
Google
Cookie name: ga_2BGNRQYTPS
- Cookie expiry: 729 days
- Cookie type: first party, ac.uk, nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: _ga
Cookie name: _ga
- Cookie expiry: 729 days
- Cookie type: first party, ac.uk, nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: 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 site’s analytics reports. By default, it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.
Cookie name: _gid
- Cookie expiry: 0 days
- Cookie type: first party, nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.
Cookie name: _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn
- Cookie expiry: 0 days
- Cookie type: first party, nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
Cookie name: _GA_XXXXXXXXXX
- Cookie expiry: 1 year
- Cookie type: third party, nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
Hotjar
Cookie name: _hjTLDTest
- Cookie expiry: 0 days
- Cookie type: first party, nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.
Cookie name: _hjSessionUser_2181208
- Cookie expiry: 364 days
- Cookie type: first party, nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: This is a Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
Cookie name: _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
- Cookie expiry: 0 days
- Cookie type: first party
- Cookie description: This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.
Cookie name: _hjIncludedInPageviewSample
- Cookie expiry: 0 days
- Cookie type: first party, nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.
Cookie name: _hjSession_2181208
- Cookie expiry: 364 days
- Cookie type: first party, nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session.
Cookie name: _hjSession_2181208
- Cookie expiry: 0 days
- Cookie type: first party, nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensures that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session.
Cookie name: _hjFirstSeen
- Cookie expiry: 0 days
- Cookie type: first party, nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: Identifies a new user's first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar's seeing this user for the first time.
Cookie name: _hjIncludedInSessionSample
- Cookie expiry: 0 days
- Cookie type: first party, www.nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit.
Cookie name: _hjIncludedInSessionSample
- Cookie expiry: 0 days
- Cookie type: third party, script.hotjar.com
- Cookie description: Used when Hotjar has rejected the session from connecting to our WebSocket due to server overload. Applied in extremely rare situations to prevent severe performance issues.
Cookie name: _hjIncludedInPageviewSample
- Cookie expiry: 0 days
- Cookie type: third party, script.hotjar.com
- Cookie description: Used when Hotjar has rejected the session from connecting to our WebSocket due to server overload. Applied in extremely rare situations to prevent severe performance issues.
Targeting Cookies
Google
Cookie name: NID
- Cookie expiry: 182 days
- Cookie type: third party, google.com
- Cookie description: This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear.
Cookie name: CONSENT
- Cookie expiry: 729 days
- Cookie type: third party, google.com
- Cookie description: This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear.
Youtube
Cookie name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
- Cookie expiry: 179 days
- Cookie type: third party, youtube.com
- Cookie description: This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos
Cookie name: CONSENT
- Cookie expiry: 729 days
- Cookie type: third party, youtube.com
- Cookie description: YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
Cookie name: YSC
- Cookie expiry: 0 days
- Cookie type: third party, youtube.com
- Cookie description: YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
Cookie name: _fbp
- Cookie expiry: 3 months
- Cookie type: first party, ac.uk, nihr.ac.uk
- Cookie description: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers
Functional Cookies
Cookie name: CONSENT
- Cookie expiry: 1 year
- Cookie type: third party, google.com
- Cookie description: This cookie 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.
- This cookie may be seen when NIHR is running Google adverts as part of an autumn or spring campaign.