What are cookies
Cookies are created when your browser loads this website (the “Service”). The Service sends information which is saved in a small text file (known as a cookie). Cookies are stored in your web browser for various periods of time, this time can range from the duration of your browsing session (session cookie) to several months (persistent cookie) and allows the us or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and more useful to you. Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.
How we use cookies
When you use and access this Service, we may place a number of cookies in your web browser, we may use cookies for the following purposes:
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested only for this Service.
- recording how many people (anonymous) in general are using the Service, this always us to ensure there is enough capacity and the Service runs fast enough to give the user a smooth experience.
- analysing anonymous data to give us a better understanding of how people use and interact with the Service so that we can constantly strive to improve it.
How to manage cookies
If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the “Help” pages of your web browser, however if you delete or refuse to accept cookies then you might not be able to use all the features provided on the service. To learn more about cookies you can visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ which has a comprehensive guide on them and on how to restrict / delete them for most common browsers.
What cookies do we use?
We use our own cookie to make the help make the Service run better, details of this is listed below
CookieName: ASP.NET_SessionId
Reason: Enables the server to recognise the user in their current browser session,
Expires: At the end of the browsing session
CookieName: _acceptCookie18
Reason: Records that the user has accepted the cookie policy so it is not shown again
Expires: 1 year
If we show a twitter feed on our Service then Twitter will use their own cookie for remembering the user’s language
CookieName: lang
Reason: Remembers the user’s selected language version of a website
Expires: At the end of the browsing session
If we use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use the Service then the following will cookies will be created
CookieName: _ga
Reason: records statistical data on how you use the Service
Expires: 2 years
CookieName: _gat, _gid
Reason: records statistical data on how you use the Service
Expires: At the end of the browsing session
We use a Third party control to enable users to share articles with their friends
CookieName: _stid
Reason: records user browser for return visits
Expires: 1 year