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 and therefore cannot be disabled, while other allow CILEX to provide users with a better services. 

In relation with cookies, CILEX is committed to ensuring to:

• Notify people that the cookie 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 web site

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 sites. This ensures that CILEX can optimise and improve the user experience of the websites. Read more about how Google uses cookies.

4. The cookies we use

The following list gives the details of the cookies that we use across our websites.

4.1 CILEX cookies

Name	Expiration	Purpose	Description
ASP.NET_SessionId .IMMAUTH	End of session	Keeps users logged in	Session cookie that stores encrypted state information for online applications, ensures users remained logged in to myCILEX
JSESSIONID Machine	End of session	Storing log-in information	Session cookie that stores log-in information

4.2 Cookies used by Google Analytics

Name	Expiration	Purpose	Description
__utma	2 years from set / update	Identifying unique visitors	Helps to calculate unique visitor numbers
__utmb	30 minutes from set / update	Determining visitor session	Helps to calculate visitor session length
__utmc	Not set	Determining visitor session	Helps to calculate visitor session length and whether a session has expired
__utmz	6 months from set / update	Tracking traffic sources and navigation	Works out referrals from other domains

4.3 Cookies on www.cilexlawschool.ac.uk and associated third party cookies

Where	Name	Description
Online shop	PHPSESSID	Session cookie that stores encrypted state information. Allows service to trace and determine if a user is actively engaged (i.e. is “in session”). Expires at end of session
Online shop	Worldpay	Third party cookie in payment process. See http://www.worldpay.com/shopper/index.php?page=safety&sub=privacy
Portal Payments	Sage Pay	Third party cookie in payment process. See https://www.sagepay.co.uk/policies/cookies
LLB in Legal Practice page	Quantserve.com  mc	Collects data on the user's visit to the webpage. The registered data is used for targeted ads for up to 13 months.

4.4 Cookies on www.sa.cilexlawschool.ac.uk (the Student Area) and associated third party cookies

Where	Name	Description
Student Area online services	MoodleSessionprod	Session cookie that stores encrypted state information for online application software. Allows the service to trace and determine if a user is actively engaged with the site (i.e. is “in session”). Expires at end of session
Student Area online services	vuid player __utmz __utmt_player __utmc __utmb __utma	These are Vimeo video player associated cookies. You can find more information on Vimeo cookies here.
Student Area online services	JSESSIONID	This cookie is associated with Blindside and expires when the browsing session ends.
Student Area online services	dtCookie	This is an Adobe cookie which expires when the browsing session ends.
Lexis Library	Third party cookie relating to use of LexisLibrary. See http://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/privacy/#HandleCookies

4.5 Other Third Party Cookies

Name	Purpose	Description
Laravel XSRF	Security	Used on the page hosting our CPQ transition tool prevent cross-site scripting attacks
Laravel Session	Security	Used on the page hosting our CPQ transition tool to keep the session of the user stable (no data is stored in the session)

5. Disabling / enabling cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline the use of cookies by changing your browser settings. You can also manually remove cookies from your system. 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.

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 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 for the purposes set out above.

As long as CILEX does obtains consent the first time that sets cookies, CILEX does not have to repeat it every time the same person visits its website. However, 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.

7. Further information

A comprehensive set of guidelines can be accessed from the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Correct as of: May 2021

Next formal review date: March 2022