A 'cookie' is a small text file that is delivered by our website server onto your computer whilst you visit our website, which can be used at a later time by the website to identify particular devices and thereby remember your website preferences and log in details.
Most cookies won't collect information that identifies you and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our website, or a user's general location.
At NPL we use cookies to help the basic working of the site and identify improvements for our users’ experience
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required to make the site work and provide you with the services you are using.
Performance cookies
These collect information about how visitors use the website, this is information is used to improve the site by telling us information like the popular pages and how quick the pages are. They can also show us how a visitor finds what they are looking for so we can improve navigation. They do not collect personal information.
Functionality cookies
These enable us to remember the cookie choices you make on the web site, individuals returning to the website and recognising the geographic location of visitors.
Analytics Cookies
NPL use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. These cookies collect information in the aggregate to give us insight on how our website is being used.
Marketing cookies
NPL does not use marketing cookies.
| Name | Product | Expiration | Location | Type | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASP.NET_SessionId | NPL site | Session (expires when the browser is shut down) | local | Neccessary | Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests. |
| CMSCsrfCookie | NPL site | Session | local | Neccessary | Store's a security token that the system uses to validate all form data submitted via POST requests. Helps protect against Cross site request forgery. |
| CMSLandingPageLoaded | NPL site | 1 day | local | Performance | Indicates that the landing page has already been visited and the Landing page activity is not logged again for the current visitor. Expires after 20 minutes and the expiration period of the key is renewed every time the website is accessed again. |
| CMSUserPage | NPL site | 1 day | local | Performance | Stores the IDs (DocumentID, NodeID) of the last visited page. Used for logging landing and exit page web analytics and activities. |
| VisitorStatus | NPL site | 20 years | local | Performance | Indicates if the visitor is new or returning. Used for tracking the visitors statistic in Web analytics. |
| CMSPreferredCulture | NPL site | 1 year | local | Functionality | The cookie determines the preferred language and country-setting of the visitor - This allows the web site to show content most relevant to that region and language. |
| CurrentContact | NPL site | 20 years | local | Analytics | Stores the GUID of the contact related to the current site visitor. Used to track activities on the website. |
| accepted-cookies | NPL site | 5 years | local | Functionality | Indicates whether the visitor has accepted NPL's cookies on the site |
| _ga | Google Analytics | 2 years | local | Performance | Used to collect information about how visitors use our website. The cookies collects information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to our website. |
| _gid | Google Analytics | 24 hours | local | Performance | Collect information about how visitors use our website. This cookie collects information anonymously, including the number of visitors to our website. |
| _gat | Google Analytics | 24 hourss | local | Performance |
This cookie does not store any user information; it is used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
| collect | Google Analytics | Session | local | Analytics | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. |
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