What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on the browser or hard drive of your computer or mobile device when you visit a webpage to enable additional features of the website to work and make your experience of browsing the site as user-friendly as possible. Use of cookies is a common practice, most websites use them and most internet browsers automatically accept cookies.
The information below provides further details about the cookies that are currently in use on our website and a description of the purpose of each of these cookies.
- Strictly necessary cookies – These are cookies that are required for the operation of the website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log in to secure areas of the website.
- Analytical/performance cookies – These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies – These are used to recognise you when you return to the website and remember your account preferences.
MINDSET uses the following cookies:
| Name | Description | Category | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| __CookieConsentV300 | A JavaScript plugin that alerts users of the use of cookies on this website. | Strictly necessary | 180 days |
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | Analytical/performance (optional) | 2 years |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | Analytical/performance (optional) | 24 hours |
| _gat_UA-92763275-2 | Used to throttle request rate. | Analytical/performance (optional) | 1 minute |
| AWSELB | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. | Strictly necessary | Removed after session |
| AWSALB | Classic AWS load balancer first receives a request from a client, it routes the request to a target, generates a cookie named AWSALB that encodes information about the selected target, encrypts the cookie, and includes the cookie in the response to the client. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| AWSELBCORS | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie. Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSELB |
Strictly necessary | Removed after session |
| AWSALBCORS | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie. Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSALB. |
Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| _cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is set on a user’s browser to assign them a unique ID in addition to identifying them through their IP address. Without this cookie, visitors to a site will be recognized as the same user if they share the same IP, and any data collected will be shared for all users with that IP. | Strictly necessary | End of session |
| __cf_bm | To read and filter requests from bots. | Strictly necessary | A few seconds |
| cf_clearance | The Clearance Cookie stores proof that a challenge was passed. If present, it prevents issuing the challenge again and is needed to access the origin server. | Strictly necessary | 1 Year |
Controlling your cookies
You can control how you use cookies in your browser. If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by any website, you should do this through the web browser settings for each web browser you use, on each device you use to access the internet.
Information on controlling and deleting cookies, including on a wide variety of browsers, is also available at allaboutcookies.org.