Cookies, privacy and data protection

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By accepting our terms and continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Our cookies are used to anonymously view data about our website, i.e what pages are most viewed and how long users read them for.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

Use of cookies

This website does not store any information that would, on its own, allow us to identify individual users of this service without their permission. Any cookies that may be used by this website are used solely on a ‘per session’ basis or to maintain user preferences.

Cookie name

Description

_ga

We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic levels, search queries and visits to this website.

Google Analytics stores IP addresses anonymously on its servers in the US. Neither CIVIC nor Google associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information.

These cookies enable Google to determine whether you are a returning visitor to the site and to track the pages that you visit during your session. They are set only after you have given us consent to use cookies.

Expiry: 2 years - Category: Statistic - Provider: psr.org.uk

_gat, _gid

We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic levels, search queries and visits to this website.

Google Analytics stores IP addresses anonymously on its servers in the US. Neither CIVIC nor Google associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information.

These cookies enable Google to determine whether you are a returning visitor to the site and to track the pages that you visit during your session. They are set only after you have given us consent to use cookies.

Expiry: 1 day - Category: Statistic - Provider: psr.org.uk

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress

This cookie is used to count how many times a web site has been visited by different visitors - this is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice.

Expiry: 1 day - Category: Statistic - Provider: psr.org.uk

_hjFirstSeen

This cookie is used to determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website.

Expiry: 1 day - Category: Statistic - Provider: psr.org.uk

_hjid

Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes.

Expiry: 1 year - Category: Statistic - Provider: psr.org.uk

_hjIncludedInPageviewSample

Determines if the user's navigation should be registered in a certain statistical placeholder.

Expiry: 1 day - Category: Statistic - Provider: psr.org.uk

_hjIncludedInSessionSample

Registers data on visitors' website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimisation.

Expiry: 1 day - Category: Statistic - Provider: psr.org.uk

_hjRecordingLastActivity

Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes.

Expiry: Session - Category: Statistic - Provider: psr.org.uk

_hjRecordingEnabled

This cookie is used to identify the visitor and optimise ad -relevance by collecting visitor data from multiple
websites – this exchange of visitor data is normally provided by a third -party data-centre or ad -exchange.

Expiry: Session - Category: Marketing - Provider: psr.org.uk

IDE

Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking
one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.

Expiry: 1 year - Category: Marketing - Provider: doubleclick.net

test_cookie

Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.

Expiry: 1 day - Category: Marketing - Provider: doubleclick.net

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

Expiry: 179 days - Category: Marketing - Provider: youtube.com

YSC

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

Expiry: Session - Category: Marketing - Provider: youtube.com

yt.innertube::nextId, yt.innertube::requests

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

Expiry: Persistent - Category: Marketing - Provider: youtube.com

yt-remote-cast-installed

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Expiry: Session- Category: Marketing - Provider: youtube.com

yt-remote-connected-devices, yt-remote-device-id, yt-remote-fast-check-period, yt-remote-session-app, yt-remote-session-name

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Expiry: Persistent- Category: Marketing - Provider: youtube.com

__Secure-1PAPISID

This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising.


Expiry
: 1 year - Category: Marketing - Provider: google.com

feedback

Used for adding a flag to see if a user has submited the feedback

Expiry: 90 days - Category: Functional - Provider: psr.org.uk

SAPISID

This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device.

Expiry: 1 year - Category: Targeting/Advertising - Provider: .google.com

__Secure-3PSID

This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising.

Expiry: 1 year - Category: Targeting/Advertising - Provider: .google.com

SSID

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.

Expiry: 1 year - Category: Targeting/Advertising - Provider: .google.com

SID

This is a very common cookie name but where it is found as a session cookie it is likely to be used as for session state management.

Expiry: 1 year - Category: Strictly Necessary - Provider: .google.com

__Secure-3PAPISID

This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising.

Expiry: 1 year - Category: Targeting/Advertising - Provider: .google.com

HSID

This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites.

Expiry: 1 year - Category: Targeting/Advertising - Provider: .google.com

hjSession

Provide Hotjar functions across the page

Expiry: Session - Category: Fuctional - Provider: psr.org.uk

NID

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.

Expiry: 6 months - Category: Targeting/Advertising - Provider: .google.com

SOCS

used to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices.

Expiry: 1 year - Category: Functional - Provider: .google.com

CookieControl

Used to store cookie preference across the site.

Expiry: 3 months - Category: Functional - Provider: psr.org.uk

CONSENT

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.

Expiry: 1 year - Category: Targeting/Advertising - Provider: .google.com

AEC

Google security cookie used to confirm visitor authenticity, protect visitor data and prevent fraudulent use of credentials

Expiry: 6 months - Category: Targeting/Advertising - Provider: .google.com