What is a Cookie

A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website. When the user browses the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved by the website to notify the website of the user's previous activity.

Cookies used for this website

AsPSESSIONIDQSDSBRBB - this is a standard ASP cookie containing the user's session ID (note this is a session ie temporary cookie). A user's session cookie for a website exists only while the user is reading and navigating the website. Web browsers normally delete session cookies when the user exits the browser.
Google Analytics Cookies

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics to obtain information about activity on the website.  The report that is created from this allows us to evaluate the pages on the website.

_utma - Google Analytics - Identifying Unique Visitors

 _utmb & _utmc - The Google Analytics tracking for ga.js uses two cookies to establish a session.

_utmz - When visitors reach your site via a search engine result, a direct link, or an ad that links to your page, Google Analytics stores the type of referral information in a cookie.

Links to useful resources

The following links contain further information on the use of cookies on websites, including why they are used and how to prevent them from being stored.

http://www.aboutcookies.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/policies/privacy/

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