cookies
SIMS ID uses cookies to enhance the user experience on most websites, and in many cases, these are required for the website to function correctly. Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed on your computer when you visit the website. The vast majority of websites on the internet use cookies.
The purpose of our cookies is to make the website function correctly, to personalise the website to your preferences, and to collect information about your visit which will help us improve the website in the future. We never collect information that could identify you, or pass information to any third parties.
The following cookies are used by the SIMS ID service and essential to its operation
| Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration (days) |
|---|---|---|
| ARRAffinity | This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. | 0 |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. | 0 |
| __RequestVerificationToken_ | 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 and is destroyed on closing the browser. | 0 |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | 0 |
| .ASPXANONYMOUS | This cookie is used by sites using the .NET technology platform from Microsoft. It enables the site to maintain an anonymous user-id to track unique users within a session without them logging in or otherwise identifying themselves. | 69 |
| OpenIdConnect.nonce. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
OpenIdConnect.nonce. - this is used to maintian security of a user during transactions. | 0 |
| ai_user | User | 365 |
| ai_session | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft Azure Application based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | 0 |
| SignInMessage. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
This cookie provided messages to the login user and confirms first login tasks are completed. |
0 |
| identity-for-sts.idsrv.xsrf | Secure Token Service identifier | 0 |
Google Analytics
The following Google Analytics cookies are set these are optional
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit Google Analytics Opt-Out
| Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration (days) |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 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 sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga | 729 |
| _ga | Used to distinguish users by Google Analytics – third-party analytics cookies: google analytics for statistical purposes. Type of data processed: IP addresses. To maximize the privacy of users / visitors, we use the “masking IP” feature, which imposes on the system the darkening of the last 8 digits of the IP address of the user / visitor before any type of processing is performed, making in fact the analyzed Purpose: to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and on how they visit our site, to process statistics. | 730 |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited._gid | 0 |
| _gat_gtag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Google Analytics | 0 |
Other cookies
Some pages in the SIMS ID user Guide make use of embedded YouTube content. The cookies set by YouTube are below. These will need to be managed directly on YouTube.
| Provider | Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration (Days) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| youtube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | 180 | |
| google.com | CONSENT | 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. | 729 | |
| youtube.com | YSC | 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. | 0 | |
| youtube.com | CONSENT | 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. | 6133 | |
| doubleclick.net | test_cookie | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange | 0 |
Managing Cookies
Most web browsers allow some control of cookies through the browser settings. Below are guidelines for managing your cookies in the most popular browsers:
Internet Explorer
Open Internet Explorer, click the Tools button, select Safety then click Delete browsing history, select the Cookies checkbox and then click Delete.
Firefox
Open Firefox, click the Firefox button (top left) then Options, select the Privacy tab then select “remove individual cookies”.
Google Chrome
Open Google Chrome, click the Spanner image in the top right corner, select Settings, then click “show advanced settings”. In the Privacy section click the Content Settings button, in the Cookies section click the “All cookies and site data” button, then click the Remove all button at the top of the list.
Safari Open
Safari, select the Options icon (top right corner ‘spanner image’), then select Preferences, click the Privacy tab, select the Details button and then click Remove all. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org