Information The Nottingham collects from you

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded on to your computer, tablet or smartphone when you visit a website. 

We use cookies when you visit our websites for the following reasons:

  • To make our websites as easy as possible to use
  • To keep the websites secure
  • To help us understand how effective our website content is and the performance of our marketing
  • To help with advertising campaigns.
To learn more about cookies visit allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies. 

There are two different types of cookies our websites use:

  • First party cookies - these are cookies we use to help with the running of the website.
  • Third party cookies - these are cookies that are managed by a third party but are placed on our website. These cookies are often used to help monitor activity on the website.

First party cookies that we currently use

Essential first party cookies

  • ASP.NET_SessionID - these are used to help us update our website
  • service-announcements - this is used to remember which service announcements you have closed so you don’t see them again.

Third party cookies that we currently use

The third party cookies we use are as follows:

Google Analytics (Google Analytics Cookie Policy) 

  • _ga (expires after 2 years)
  • _gid (expires after 24 hours)
  • _gat (expires after 2 years)
  • _gtag (expires after 2 years)

These cookies are managed by Google Analytics and we use them to understand the number of website visits, how users find the website and how they use the website.

DoubleClick (DoubleClick Cookie Policy)

  • IDE (expires after 14 days)
  • test_cookie (1 day)
These cookies are managed by DoubleClick and we use them to improve our advertising on third party websites. Some common uses include targeting advertising based on what’s relevant to a user, improving reporting on advertising campaign performance and to avoid showing ads that the user has already seen. 

Turn.com

  • uid
These cookies are managed by Ambobee and are used to improve our advertising on third party websites. Some common uses include targeting advertising based on what’s relevant to a user, improving reporting on advertising campaign performance and to avoid showing ads that the user has already seen. 

Google Adsense

  • _gcl_au 
These cookies are managed by Google to help them experiment with advertisement efficiency across websites. 

Bing (Microsoft)

  • MUID
These cookies are managed by Microsoft to help track advertising on third party websites. 

Facebook

  • _fbp
  • AA003
  • fr
  • _gcl_au

These cookies are managed by Facebook to help them serve their ads in a more targeted way. 

AtDMT

  • ATN
  • MUID

These cookies collect data on visitors' preferences and behaviour on our websites and are used to deliver more relevant content and advertisement on third party sites. 

VWO 

  • _vwo_ds (30 minutes)
  • _vwo_sn (30 minutes)
  • _vwo_uuid (366 days)
  • _vwo_uuid_v2 (366 days)
  • _ vwoSn
These are cookies managed by VWO and they are used to improve the visitor’s experience by providing heatmap recording and analytics. 

Hotjar

  • _hjid
  • _hjTLDTest
  • _hjIncludedInSample
These are cookies used to help us understand how users are interacting with our websites so that we can improve their user experience. 

A/B testing

  • _vis_opt_s (99 days)
  • _vis_opt_test_cookie (non persistant)
These are cookies used to allow us to perform A/B testing so we can improve the user experience.

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