Cookies

At Westminster, we use cookies on our website much like most of the websites you might visit.

A cookie is a small text file which is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. When you return to a website you have previously visited or visit a website that uses the same cookies, that website will then recognise these cookies and therefore your device.

A pixel is a tiny snippet of code that gathers information about your behaviour on a website, such as traffic and conversions. Pixels sometimes work with cookies together in order to assist with our marketing and delivery of online advertising.

Our primary use of cookies is to identify which web pages are accessed, helping us to analyse and improve the navigation and content of our website. We do this mostly through traffic log cookies and analytics services provided by Google in order to give you a better web browsing experience.

Cookies and pixels will not be used to store personal information, nor do we use them to identify individuals. The tables below illustrate the cookies we have identified and that we are presently using on our website.

As the website develops, so might the cookie usage and the following list is therefore subject to change.

Essential cookies

These cookies are set by services to protect our website from attackers and your data when you submit a form, or to enable certain functions on the website. They always need to be on.

Cookie Name	Used By	Description	Expiration
_cfduid	Cloudflare	Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. It does not contain any personal information.	1 year
TiPMix	Azure	Used by Azure when determining which web server they should be directed to.	1 hour
x-ms-routing-name	Azure	Used by Azure to handle traffic during code changes.	1 Hour
idsrv	Identity Server framework	Used by Identity Server framework to authenticate user via cookie when logging into our Platform.	2 hours
idsrv.session	Identity Server framework	Used by Identity Server framework to ensure a user's session has not changed when logging into our Platform.	2 hours
TempMember	Website	Set when a user first signs up for our site, but does not verify their account via email. It's used to associate the user's actions with the new user account.	12 hours
TempMember_RequiresVerification	Website	Contains "true" if the person has recently signed up to the website but has not yet verified their account yet.	12 Hours
cookieconsent_status	Website	Used to remember if the user has accepted our cookie policy	1 year
tid	Website	Used by the Platform to store user session data. This includes antiforgery tokens and shopping basket data	1 month
AspNetCore.Antiforgery.XXXXXX	Identity Server framework	Built in ASP.NET security feature. Used to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks against our sites	End of session
ASP.NET_SessionId	Website	Used for authenticating a user's session after logging in. Closes when the user exits the browser. It does not contain any personal information.	End of session
.AspNet.Auth	Website	Used for authenticating the user when logged into the Platform.	2 Hours
ARRAffinity	Website	Tells our infrastructure which server to handle the request. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	End of session
MemberLoggedIn	Website	A binary flag which stores whether a user is logged in or not. It does not contain any personal information.	End of session
_stripe_sid	Stripe	Used by our payment provider, Stripe, in order to process payments on checkout.	End of session
_stripe_mid	Stripe	Used by our payment provider, Stripe, in order to process payments on checkout.	1 year
nsr	Stripe	Used by our payment provider, Stripe, in order to process payments on checkout.	End of session

Statistic cookies

We use tools to gather statistical data on how our website is being used, so that we can continually improve it. For example, how you get to the site, the pages you visited and what you click on while you are visiting our site.

The data collected is anonymous and will not be used to identify any individual. We do not allow Google or other services to use or share the data about how you use our site.

Cookie Name	Used by	Description	Expiration
@@History/@@scroll\|#	Website	Used by AppInsights to allow for monitoring of the platform database. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	End of session
_ga and _gid	Google Analytics	Used to distinguish between website users in Google Analytics.	2 years
_gat	Google Analytics	Used to moderate calls to the Google Analytics service. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	End of session
ai_session and ai_user	Website	Tracks users as they navigate the website predominately for infrastructure performance insights. It does not contain any personal information.	End of session
p.gif	Typekit	Used by the font provider, Typekit, if you are using one of their fonts. Used for compliance and billing purposes only. It does not contain any personal information.	End of session
__utma	Google Analytics	Stores the amount of visits of a user, the time of their first visit, the previous visit, and the current visit. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	2 years
__utmz	Google Analytics	This performance cookie stores where a user came from (eg. search engine, search keyword, link). It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	6 months
__unam	ShareThis	Set as part of the ShareThis service and monitors "click-stream" activity, e.g. web pages viewed, navigation from page to page, time spent on each page etc. The ShareThis service only identifies a user if they have separately signed up with ShareThis for a ShareThis account and given them consent. Checks how long a user stays on a site: when a visit starts, and ends. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	14 months
cc_cookie_accept	Website	Stores whether the user has accepted the cookie message or not. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	365 days
_BEAMER_XXXXXX	Beamer	Tracking for what product announcement posts have been seen by the current logged in user in the manager.	1 year
_plantrack	Planhat	Provides analytical information about the current platform user to Planhat (our CRM) in order to improve your experience working with us.	1 year

Marketing cookies

Marketing cookies help us understand your browsing habits and provide you with ads that are relevant to you. They are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device and do not directly store your personal information.

Cookie Name	Used by	Description	Expiration
NID	Google	Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. Can be used for targeted ads. It does not contain any personal information.	6 months
collect	Google Analytics	Used to send data to Google Analytics a user's device and behaviour. It does not contain any personal information.	End of session
r/collect	Doubleclick.net	These cookies are managed by DoubleClick, an advertising platform we use to display adverts.	End of session
IDE, DSID, _ct_rmm	Doubleclick.net	These cookies are managed by DoubleClick, an advertising platform we use to display adverts.	2 years
DisplayName	Website	Keeps track of a donors preference to show their name during a Direct Debit.	End of session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Youtube	Used by Youtube if you've embedded a Youtube video in your posts. Tries to estimate a user's bandwidth on pages with integrated Youtube videos. It does not contain any personal information.	179 days
YSC	Youtube	Used by Youtube if you've embedded a Youtube video in your posts. Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from Youtube a user has seen. It does not contain any personal information	End of session

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