In the Policy, references to ‘you’ and ‘your’ are references to the user and/or browser of www.teachingpersonnel.com and associated services (the ‘Site’).
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by online service providers to help build a profile of users. They are also used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the information below explains how to remove cookies from your browser. However, some of the Site features may not function as a result.
For further information visit https://www.aboutcookies.org.
Types Of Cookies
Source
There are two main sources of cookies:
- ‘First party’ cookies that are set by us when using the Site
- ‘Third party’ cookies are for third party websites such as Facebook or Google to display online advertising and social sharing features
Duration
Cookies will usually be kept for a specified duration, either as a session cookie or persistent cookies: -
- Session cookies — these cookies allow the Site to link your actions during a particular browser session. They expire each time you close your browser and do not remain on your device afterwards.
- Persistent cookies — these cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions. They allow your preferences or actions across the Site to be remembered. They will remain on your device until they expire, or until you delete them from your cache.
Categories
The cookies we place on your device fall into the following categories: -
Necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for you to be able to navigate the Site and use its features. Without these cookies, the services you have asked for could not be provided.
These cookies cannot be restricted or blocked.
Performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how you use the Site, e.g., which pages you visit most often. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information about you. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous and is only used to improve how the Site works.
Functionality cookies
These cookies allow the Site to remember the choices you make (such as your username, language, last action and search preferences) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
Advertisement cookies
These cookies are used to deliver adverts relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement on the Site and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the Site operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Description | Category | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TiPMix | Azure | The TiPMix cookie is set by Azure to determine which web server the users must be directed to. | Necessary | 1 hour |
| x-ms-routing-name | Azure | Azure sets this cookie for routing production traffic by specifying the production slot. | Necessary | 1 hour |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | Necessary | 5 months 27 days | |
| .AspNetCore.Correlation. uI2smUY1bPoaH3WR5lWAOrX -H5hrO2xVRBSK1TeOuqg |
Teaching Personnel | Required for the website to function and enable educators to login | Necessary | 15 minutes |
| .AspNetCore.Antiforgery. xumFjbKQq4o |
Teaching Personnel | For Security - protects the website from malicious form posts | Necessary | Session |
| .AspNetCore.Session | Teaching Personnel | Enables server side sessions - important for website functionality | Necessary | Session |
| Identity.External | Teaching Personnel | Enables server side sessions - enables website functionality | Necessary | past |
| .AspNetCore.Mvc. CookieTempDataProvider |
Teaching Personnel | Required to enable site functionality across Candidate and School login and registration areas. | Necessary | past |
| cookieconsent | Teaching Personnel | Tracks Cookie consent on the Schools subdomain | Necessary | 1 year |
| OpenIdConnect.nonce. vEsXSIPxKnVEykzJPqEDOwCA2 aKhVobi1pRIQ2nKI5E%3D |
Teaching Personnel | Required to enable School user login | Necessary | 15 minutes |
| tp-ClientRef | Teaching Personnel | Required to enable users to login | Necessary | 15 minutes |
| .AspNetCore.Antiforgery.9fXoN5jHCXs | Teaching Personnel | For security - protects the website from malicious form posts | Necessary | Session |
| .SparkSession | Teaching Personnel | Enables server side session - enables form function | Necessary | Session |
| .AspNetCore.Antiforgery.6YYsGt-Vbxo | Teaching Personnel | For security, protects the website from malicious form posts | Necessary | Session |
| ARRAffinity | Azure | ARRAffinity cookie is set by Azure app service, and allows the service to choose the right instance established by a user to deliver subsequent requests made by that user. | Necessary | Session |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | Azure | This cookie is set by Windows Azure cloud, and is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. | Necessary | Session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Microsoft | Issued by Microsoft's ASP.NET Application, this cookie stores session data during a user's website visit. | Necessary | Session |
| __RequestVerificationToken | Teaching Personnel | This cookie is set by web application built in ASP.NET MVC Technologies. This is an anti-forgery cookie used for preventing cross site request forgery attacks. | Necessary | Session |
| __hssrc | HubSpot | This cookie is set by Hubspot whenever it changes the session cookie. The __hssrc cookie set to 1 indicates that the user has restarted the browser, and if the cookie does not exist, it is assumed to be a new session. | Necessary | Session |
| __hssc | HubSpot | HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of sessions and to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie. | Necessary | 30 minutes |
| __cfruid | Cloudflare | Cloudflare sets this cookie to identify trusted web traffic. | Necessary | Session |
| COP-Personal | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s previously viewed content which is then used to tailor the users ongoing experience. | Functional | 2 days |
| cc_cookie_id | Teaching Personnel | Cookie for tracking visitors and providing advanced functionality for the user. It contains only a unique session ID and no individually identifiable information. It is set to never expire, but can be expired manually or deleted from your machine with no ill effects. | Functional | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare | Cloudflare set the cookie to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | Functional | 30 minutes |
| li_gc | Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor's consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. | Functional | 5 months 27 days | |
| lidc | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. | Functional | 1 day | |
| ABTastyDomainTest | AB Tasty | Checks the AB Tasty tool is operating on the expected domain | Functional | Session |
| COP_Vacancies | Attrax | This cookie is used to enhance the user experience and functionality on the site by remembering previously viewed vacancies during a session. The cookie expires after the session ends. | Functional | 7 days |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn sets this cookie for LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. | Functional | 1 month | |
| _pk_id.52.9b32 | Matomo | Set by Matomo for anonymous tracking of users for analytics | Performance | 1 year 27 days |
| _pk_ses.52.9b32 | Matomo | Set by Matomo for anonymous tracking of users for analytics | Performance | 30 minutes |
| ABTastySession | ABTasty | ABTasty sets this cookie to identify a unique session. It allows us to determine that a new session has begun for a given user. | Performance | 30 minutes |
| ABTasty | ABTasty | ABTasty sets this cookie to send all test data (visitor ID, test and variant IDs, timestamps). | Performance | 1 year 1 month 1 day |
| _gcl_au | Google Tag Manager sets the cookie to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | Performance | 3 months | |
| _ga | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | Performance | 1 year 1 month 4 days | |
| _gid | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | Performance | 1 day | |
| _gat_UA-* | Google Analytics sets this cookie for user behaviour tracking. | Performance | 1 minute | |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | Performance | 1 year 1 month 4 days | |
| ln_or | Linkedin sets this cookie to registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website for internal analytics. | Performance | 1 day | |
| sourcetracking-isset | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the source of traffic to the site. It applies a flag within the cookie to identify that this is the first visit to the site and therefore is the first source of a user to the site. | Performance | 3 months |
| sourcetracking-utmsource | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the source of traffic to the site. It identifies and uses the UTM code identifiable in the query string of the URL used by the user to enter the site on the first visit. | Performance | 3 months |
| souecetracking-utmcampaign | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the performance of campaigns used to drive traffic to the site. It uses the UTM code identifiable in the query string of the URL used by the user to enter the site. | Performance | 3 months |
| sourcetracking-utmmedium | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the medium of traffic to the site. It uses the UTM code identifiable in the query string of the URL used by the user to enter the site on the first visit. | Performance | 3 months |
| sourcetracking-visitdatetime | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the latest specific dates and times of entry to the website on the first and subsequent visits. It uses the date and time of the user’s local machine. It expires after 90 days | Performance | 3 months |
| sourcetracking-setms | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the latest specific dates and times using Unix / Epoch timestamps of entry to the website on the first and subsequent visits. It uses the date and time of the user’s local machine. It expires after 90 days | Performance | 3 months |
| sourcetracking-referrer | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the source of traffic to the site. It measures the referring source a visitor uses to enter the site on the first occasion. | Performance | 3 months |
| sourcetracking-latest-isset | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the source of traffic to the site. It applies a flag within the cookie to identify that this is the latest (first or subsequent) visit to the site. | Performance | 3 months |
| sourcetracking-latest-utmsource | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the source of traffic to the site. It identifies and uses the UTM code identifiable in the query string of the latest URL used by the user to enter the site on the first and subsequent visits. | Performance | 3 months |
| sourcetracking-latest-campaign | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the performance of campaigns used to drive traffic to the site. It uses the UTM code identifiable in the query string of the URL used by the visitor to enter the site on the first and subsequent visits. | Performance | 3 months |
| sourcetracking-latest-medium | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the medium of traffic to the site. It identifies the latest medium a visitor uses to enter the site on the first and subsequent visits. | Performance | 3 months |
| sourcetracking-latest-visitdatetime | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the latest specific dates and times of entry to the website on the first and subsequent visits. It uses the date and time of the user’s local machine. | Performance | 3 months |
| sourcetracking-latest-setms | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the latest specific dates and times using Unix / Epoch timestamps of entry to the website on the first and subsequent visits. It uses the date and time of the user’s local machine. | Performance | 3 months |
| sourcetracking-latest-referrer | Attrax | This cookie is used to remember a user’s entry point to the site to help us track the source of traffic to the site. It measures the latest referring source a visitor uses to enter the site on the first and subsequent visits. | Performance | 3 months |
| _pk_ref.52.9b32 | Matomo | Set by Matomo for anonymous tracking of users for analytics | Performance | 6 months |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Linkedin set this cookie to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. | Performance | 1 month | |
| __hstc | HubSpot | Hubspot set this main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session). | Performance | 5 months 27 days |
| hubspotutk | HubSpot | HubSpot sets this cookie to keep track of the visitors to the website. This cookie is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. | Performance | 5 months 27 days |
| vuid | Vimeo | Vimeo installs this cookie to collect tracking information by setting a unique ID to embed videos on the website. | Performance | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| _gat | Google Universal Analytics sets this cookie to restrain request rate and thus limit data collection on high-traffic sites. | Performance | 1 minute | |
| _p_hfp_client_id | Elfsight | Elfsight sets this cookie to implement social platforms on the website and enables the social platforms to track the users by assigning them a specific ID. | Performance | Less than a minute |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. | Advertisement | 15 minutes | |
| muc_ads | Twitter sets this cookie to collect user behaviour and interaction data to optimize the website. | Advertisement | 1 year 1 month 4 days | |
| personalization_id | Twitter sets this cookie to integrate and share features for social media and also store information about how the user uses the website, for tracking and targeting. | Advertisement | 1 year 1 month 4 days | |
| bcookie | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. | Advertisement | 1 year | |
| _fbp | Facebook sets this cookie to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting the website. | Advertisement | 3 months | |
| li_sugr | LinkedIn sets this cookie to collect user behaviour data to optimise the website and make advertisements on the website more relevant. | Advertisement | 3 months | |
| IDE | Google DoubleClick IDE cookies store information about how the user uses the website to present them with relevant ads according to the user profile. | Advertisement | 1 year 24 days | |
| bscookie | LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. | Advertisement | 1 year | |
| fr | Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites with Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. | Advertisement | 3 months |
How do I manage my cookies?
We will ask for your permission to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential to provide you with a service that you have requested (e.g., to enable you to put items in your shopping basket and to use our check-out process).
There is a notice on the Site which describes how we use cookies where you can filter your cookie preferences when using the Site.
How to Turn Off Cookies
If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of the Site. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/. You can disable cookies yourself by following the steps at this link: https://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/managing-cookies. You can also follow the steps set out in the cookie banner on entering the Site.
Changes to the policy
Last Amended: 28.07.2023