Cookie Policy
As you may already know, cookies are small pieces of data downloaded to your computer when you visit a website. This website, like almost every other, uses cookies to give you a better online experience because they help the website remember preferences and understand how people use different features. To help you understand the types of cookies we use (or those which may be used by third parties on our site), we have categorised the cookies in relation to their functionality. These categories are:
1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
2. Analytics Cookies
3. Performance Cookies
A detailed description for each of the different cookies is set out below.
If you have any questions about cookies or privacy, please refer to our Privacy Policy for details of how to contact us.
1. Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly Necessary cookies are essential to let you move around the website and use its features, such as accessing the secure Members Area. These cookies do not gather any information that could be used for marketing to you or to remember your preferences / ID, other than for your current session.
Strictly necessary cookies are used to:
- Identify you as being logged in to the secure Members Area.
- Remember previous actions when navigating between different pages on this website.
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the website.
Cookies we consider to be Strictly Necessary:
Cookie name | Description | Domain |
rc::a | Used to track and analyse user behaviour to distinguish humans from bots or automated software. | www.google.com |
rc::f | Used to track and analyse user behaviour to distinguish humans from bots or automated software. | www.google.com |
_grecaptcha | Stores a value used to verify that the user is not a bot | www.eida.org.uk |
2. Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies collect information about how you use our website, e.g. which pages you visit most often, and if you experience any error messages. They also allow us to update our website to improve performance and tailor it to your preferences. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you – all the information collected is anonymous. They will not be used to target adverts to you on other websites.
Analytics cookies are used to:
- Provide statistics on how this website is used (including pages that you have viewed during your use of this website).
- Gather non-user specific data about the usage on this website and provide statistics about how this website is used.
- Provide and track the effectiveness of videos embedded in this website (and hosted by Vimeo and YouTube).
Cookies we consider to be Analytics cookies:
| Cookie | Description | Duration |
| _ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | 2 years |
| _gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day |
| _gat_UA-165914080-1 | A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. | 1 minute |
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
You may also prevent Google from collecting and storing information in cookies, from storing information about your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing such information by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB
For more information about privacy policies and Google Analytics, please refer to the Google website: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
3. Performance Cookies
Cookie name | Description | Domain |
PHPSESSID | Cookie generated by applications based on the PHP language. This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number, how it is used can be specific to the site, but a good example is maintaining a logged-in status for a user between pages. | www.eida.org.uk |
elementor | none found | www.eida.org.uk |
wpEmojiSettingsSupports | This cookie is utilised to enable emoji support on pages using WordPress. | www.eida.org.uk |
