Default description: 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 site's analytics reports. By default, it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga
Default description: 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 on a site and used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the site's analytics reports. By default, it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga
Default description: 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
Default description: This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.
Default description: This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website.
Default description: The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie.
Default description: This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser.
Default description: This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie.
Default description: General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.
Default description: This cookie name is associated with the Netscaler load balancing service from Citrix. This is a pattern type cookie with the root being NSC_ and the rest of the name being a unique encrypted alpha numeric identifier for the virtual server it originated from. The cookie is used to ensure traffic and user data is routed to the correct locations where a site is hosted on multiple servers so that the end user has a consistent experience.
Cookie name: OptanonAlertBoxClosed
Lifespan: PERSISTENT
Hostname: .ruskin.ac.uk
Default category: Strictly Necessary Cookies
Associated application: -
Default description: 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 one year lifespan and contains no personal information.
Cookie name: OptanonConsent
Lifespan: PERSISTENT
Hostname: .ruskin.ac.uk
Default category: Strictly Necessary Cookies
Associated application: -
Default description: 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 user's 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.
Default description: Cookie associated with Snapchat. Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisements. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates real time bidding for advertisers.
Default description: This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
Default description: This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
Default description: This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.
Default description: This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Google's real time bidding advertising exchange.
Default description: This cookie is widely used by Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded Microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking.
Default description: This cookie is widely used by Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded Microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking.
