CILEX Cookies Policy
1. Introduction
This policy is to help members of the public and our members to understand how we use Cookies on our CILEX website including the CILEX Foundation Portal linked to this website. Our Cookies Banner provider is One Trust.
For the Cookies Policies, relating to the CILEX Law School and CILEX Regulation websites, please follow the link to the Cookies Policy via that website.
2. About Cookies
A Cookie is a small file, typically of letters and numbers and downloaded onto a device, when the user accesses certain websites. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit. Cookies are useful, because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.
The main purpose of CILEX Cookies is to provide the user with the best user experience possible. Some of CILEX Cookies are essential for a website (known as Strictly Necessary Cookies) and therefore cannot be disabled, while others allow CILEX to provide users with a better service.
In relation with Cookies, CILEX is committed to ensuring that we:
- Notify people that the Cookies are there,
- Explain what the Cookies are doing and
- Obtain their consent to store a Cookie on their device.
For administration of its website CILEX may use Session Cookies; a Session Cookie is a temporary file stored in a web browser that is deleted, when either it expires or the browser is closed. No personal information is stored permanently within a Cookie from this website.
3. The CILEX Cookie Policy
The main purpose of our use of Cookies is to provide you with the most optimised user experience possible.
3.1 Navigation and Function
CILEX uses Cookies for navigational and functional purposes. When a user accesses a CILEX website, encrypted session Cookies are used to validate the Users access to different parts of the website.
For example, for CILEX Members this relates to items such as keeping a record of log-in details, so that they do not have to type in their username and password every time they visit the MyCILEX section.
3.2 Analytics
CILEX collects information about how people access and use its websites using an analytics tool. The CILEX websites use Google Analytics. This is an analytics service provided by Google, Inc.
Google Analytics uses Cookies to help CILEX to understand how users use its websites. This ensures that CILEX can optimise and improve the user experience of the websites. Read more about how Google uses cookies here.
4. The Cookies That We Use
The following list gives the details of the Cookies that we use across our CILEX website.
4.1 CILEX Cookies
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Name
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Expiration
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Description
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| ASP.NET_SessionId |
End of session
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End of session This Cookie is used in sites developed with Microsoft.Net. When a user starts browsing, a unique session ID is created, which keeps track of all the information regarding that session. This information is stored in the web server and it is identified via a GUID. The GUID is essential for any ASP.NET site to function properly.
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| JSESSIONID Machine |
End of session
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Session cookie that stores log-in information
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4.2 Cookies used by Google Analytics:
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Name
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Expiration
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Description
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_ga
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2 years
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This Cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The Cookie is used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and to keep track of the site usage for the site's analytics report. The Cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
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_gid
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1 day
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This Cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The Cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is performing. The data collected including the number of visitors, the source of where they have come from and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
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_gat_*
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1 year |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate (to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites).
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__utma
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2 years from set / update |
Helps to calculate unique visitor numbers.
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| _utmb |
30 minutes from set / update |
Helps to calculate visitor session length.
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| _utmc |
Not set |
Helps to calculate visitor session length and whether a session has expired.
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| _utmz |
6 months from set / update |
Works out referrals from other domains. |
| _hjid |
1 year |
This Cookie is set by Hotjar. This Cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist with the random user ID, which is unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
| _hjFirstSeen |
30 minutes |
This is set by Hotjar to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true or false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar has seen this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample |
1 year |
This Cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's page view limit. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress |
1 year |
The Cookie is set, so that Hotjar can track the beginning of the user's journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information. |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample |
1 year |
This Cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity |
End of session |
This should be found in Session storage (as opposed to Cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records). |
| _hjRecordingEnabled |
End of activity |
This is added when a Recording starts and is read when the recording module is initialized to see if the user is already in a recording, in a particular session. |
| bscookie |
2 years |
This Cookie is a browser ID Cookie set by Linked share Buttons and ad tags. |
| bcookie |
2 years |
This Cookie is set by LinkedIn. The purpose of the Cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page.
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4.3 Cookies used by Advertising Platforms
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Name
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Expiration
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Description
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lang
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End of session |
This Cookie is set by LinkedIn and LinkedIn ads. This Cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.
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UserMatchHistory
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1 month
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Used by LinkedIn to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.
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| lidc |
1 day |
This Cookie is set by LinkedIn and used for routing. |
4.4 Other Third Party Cookies (https://www.cilexcpqtransitiontool.org.uk/)
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Name
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Purpose
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Description
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Laravel XSRF
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Security |
Used on the page hosting our CPQ Transition Tool prevent cross-site scripting attacks.
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Laravel Session
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Security
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Used on the page hosting our CPQ Transition Tool to keep the session of the user stable (no data is stored in the session).
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5. Disabling/Enabling Cookies
You have the ability to Accept All, Decline All or Manage Preferences for the use of Cookies from the Cookies Notice that appears when you view the website. However, we would like you to have the best experience of our website and it is likely that disabling cookies will limit the functionality of the CILEX website.
In the Manage Preferences section, there is an explanation of each of the Cookies' functions and you can choose to opt in or remain opted out of each Cookie Type listed except for the Strictly Necessary Cookies. The other Cookies are Performance Cookies, Functional Cookies, Targeting Cookies and Social Media Cookies. Please see the Cookies Banner Notice for further information.
If you are concerned about the use of Cookies, in relation to “spyware” you can use anti-spyware software to delete Cookies that may be considered invasive, rather than disabling the Cookies altogether.
6. Consent
By accepting Cookies with your browser settings and using the CILEX website, you consent to the processing of data about you by CILEX, its subsidiaries and Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
As long as CILEX does obtain consent the first time that Cookies are set, CILEX does not have to repeat it every time the same person visits the website. However, it is good to keep in mind that devices may be used by different people. If there is likely to be more than one user, so CILEX repeats this process at suitable intervals. You can also clear Cookies from your web browser settings prompting all websites to initiate their Cookie Notice consent with a view to actioning your Cookies Preferences and this can be done at any time.
7. Further information
Correct as of: September 2021
Next Formal Review Date: September 2022