Cookie Notice

This notice explains how Procurement Services uses cookies and other similar technologies on our websites and mobiles applications to help provide you with the best possible online experience.

 

What are cookies?

A 'cookie' is a small text file that is stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website or use an app.

We use cookies to ‘remember’ when your computer or device accesses our websites. Cookies help the effective operation of our websites. They are used to tailor the products and services offered and advertised to you, both on our websites and elsewhere.
We have placed cookies on your computer to help us give you the experience you expect. By continuing to use our website, you’re agreeing to our use of cookies. Alternatively, you can manage them in your browser setting.

 

Google analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website and help us create a more useful and easy to use site. This is a web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to collect information such as visitor numbers and the most popular pages.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
If you want to see more information about how Google uses this data and what they do with the data they collect, please visit their privacy policy.

 

How can I control my cookies?

You can use your web browser to:
• Delete all cookies
• Block all cookies
• Allow all cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Clear all cookies when you close your browser
• Open a 'private browsing / incognito' session which allows you to brown the internet without storing local data
• Install add-ons and plug-ins to extend browser functionality

 

Cookie List

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

Targeting Cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Cookies

Cookie Subgroup

Lifespan

Cookies used

Description

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procurementservices.co.uk

A few seconds

First Party

Google Analytics Cookies

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

youtube.com

179 Days

Third Party

This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos

__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN

youtube.com 

179 Days

Third Party

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

YSC

youtube.com

Session

Third Party

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA

youtube.com

179 Days

Third Party

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. 

CONSENT

youtube.com

729 Days

Third Party

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. 

TESTCOOKIESENABLED

www.youtube.com 

A few seconds

Third Party 

YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Cookies

Cookie Subgroup

Lifespan

Cookies used

Description

.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.9fXoN5jHCXs

www.procurementservices.co.uk

364 Days 

First Party

.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.

.AspNetCore.Mvc.CookieTempDataProvider

 

www.procurementservices.co.uk 

 

Session

First Party

.AspNetCore.

.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.cdV5uW_Ejgc 

www.procurementservices.co.uk

 

Session

 

First Party

.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.

mf_user 

www.procurementservices.co.uk 

89 Days

First Party

This cookie name is associated with Mouseflow analytics software for recording user interactions on a website. This is a unique user identifier cookie, with a reported lifespan of around 90 days.Used to track usage of the embedded video player.

OptanonAlertBoxClosed

www.procurementservices.co.uk 

364 Days 

First Party 

This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year and contains no personal information.

OptanonConsent

www.procurementservices.co.uk 

364 Days

First Party

This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.

_GRECAPTCHA

www.google.com

179 Days

Third Party

 

 

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Cookies

Cookie Subgroup 

Lifespan

Cookies used 

Description

_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress

www.procurementservices.co.uk 

A few seconds

First Party 

This cookie is used by Hotjar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.

_hjSessionUser_3146937

 

www.procurementservices.co.uk  

 

364 Days 

First Party 

Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, 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.

_gax

www.procurementservices.co.uk   

 

399 Days 

 

First Party 

This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier.

_hjTLDTest

www.procurementservices.co.uk  

Session

First Party 

When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.

_ga_xxxxxxxxxx

www.procurementservices.co.uk   

399 Days 

First Party

Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device

_ga

www.procurementservices.co.uk 

399 Days

First Party

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._ga

_ga_M5SGQPN1CH

www.procurementservices.co.uk  

729 Days 

First Party

_ga

_gid 

www.procurementservices.co.uk  

A few seconds

First Party

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._gid

_hjFirstSeen 

www.procurementservices.co.uk 

A few seconds

First Party 

Identifies a new user's first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar's seeing this user for the first time.

_hjSession_3146937

www.procurementservices.co.uk  

A few seconds 

First Party 

A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session.