Cookie Policy

Information about our use of cookies

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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.

Types of Cookies We Use

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  • Analytical/performance cookies: They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around this website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way this website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to this website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.
  • Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to this website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make this website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Individual Cookies We Use

Cookie Type Name Purpose More Information
Affinity cookies ARRAffinity Affinity Cookies are used to aid people who need to stay with a certain instance of web app or web site in Azure. MS Blog
Identity Cookies SignInMessage. Determining application user is signing into.
Identity Cookies idsrv Store token to identify current login user.
Identity Cookies idsrv.xsrf Store token to prevent CSRF attack.
Identity Cookies idsvr.clients Store identificator of application that current user was signed in.
Identity Cookies idsvr.session Store token to identify current session of user.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

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Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the browser is closed or after a month from login in case "Remember Me" is checked.