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ARRAffinity - This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session.

ARRAffinitySameSite - Used for Azure Load Balancing between servers / services

cf_clearance - Used to verify user is not a bot; user/system has solved a challenge successfully

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PHPSESSID - PHP session cookie associated with embedded content from this domain.

Ai_session - This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie.

Our Performance cookies monitor site performance and follow user actions. These cookies do not collect identifiable user information – they obtain data anonymously and only use it to improve the performance of a website.

IDE - This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange

_fbp - Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers

test_cookie - This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange.

MUID - This domain is owned by Microsoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing.

SRM_B - This domain is owned by Microsoft - it is the site for the search engine Bing.

Analytical Cookies help us monitor site performance.

_gid - This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited.

gatUA-136093215-1 - This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.

_ga - This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.

gaxxxxxxxxxx - This cookie is part of Google Analytics and is used to report the traffic that comes to the website, information on the source of where users come from or what campaign to explain how a user reaches the website.

_clsk - Used by Microsoft Clarity to connect multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording.

ai_user -This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statictical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time.

_clck - Microsoft Clarity - to store a unique user ID.

_gclxxxx - Google conversion tracking cookie.

SM -This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics.

CLID - This domain is associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics service that provides insights into user behavior on websites. 

MR - This domain is associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics product that provides insights on user behavior and website performance. 

gaEF8MRK2B5K - This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.  By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners.

ANONCHK - This domain is associated with Microsoft Clarity, a web analytics product that provides insights on user behavior and website performance.