Our aim is to make your visit to our website a great experience and we're always looking at ways to improve your user journey. Cookies, not the choc chip variety, are one way of helping us do this.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
There are different types of cookies – Session, Persistent and First and Third Party Cookies. Please visit allaboutcookies.org , aboutcookies.org or the ICO for more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them.
These are the cookies this website uses, grouped by what they are for.
Needed for the site to work — keeping it secure, making forms work and remembering your cookie choices. They can’t be switched off.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
_GRECAPTCHA
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6 months | Google reCAPTCHA: tells people from bots, to protect the site’s forms from spam. |
echo_consent
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6 months | Remembers which cookies you allowed on this site, so you aren’t asked on every page. |
Help us understand how visitors use the site — which pages are popular and how people find us — so we can improve it.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
_ga
|
2 years | Google Analytics: tells visitors apart, to count visitors and their visits. |
_ga_*
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2 years | Google Analytics: keeps track of the current visit for one Analytics property. |
_hjSession_*
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30 minutes | Hotjar: holds the current visit’s data. |
_hjSessionUser_*
|
1 year | Hotjar: tells visitors apart across visits. |
echo_heatmap
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30 minutes | Groups one visit’s clicks and scrolling together, for the site’s anonymous heatmaps. |
vuid
|
2 years | Vimeo: collects statistics of the Vimeo videos watched. |
Help us test and measure improvements, such as trying two versions of a page to see which works better.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
echo_ab_visitor
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1 year | Keeps you on the same version of a page while we test two versions of it, and counts which works better. |
Used by advertising partners and video services such as YouTube to show you relevant adverts, on this site and others, and to measure our campaigns.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
AnalyticsSyncHistory
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30 days | LinkedIn: records when the browser was last matched with LinkedIn. |
bcookie
|
1 year | LinkedIn: identifies the browser, for LinkedIn’s adverts and security. |
IDE
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1 year 24 days | Google’s advertising: shows relevant adverts on other sites and measures how well they work. |
li_gc
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6 months | LinkedIn: remembers whether the visitor agreed to LinkedIn’s cookies. |
li_sugr
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3 months | LinkedIn: estimates whether visits come from the same browser, for adverts. |
lidc
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1 day | LinkedIn: routes requests to the right LinkedIn data centre. |
test_cookie
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15 minutes | Google’s advertising: checks whether the browser accepts cookies. |
UserMatchHistory
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30 days | LinkedIn: matches the visitor to LinkedIn’s advertising, to measure campaigns. |
You can change your choices at any time with the Cookie settings button.