Use of cookies by Pepper (UK) Limited
Cookies are small data files placed on your computer or internet enabled device by websites in order to add functionality. A cookie can be used to identify a user's computer or internet enabled device to the website, or to other third-party websites. This allows websites to improve the way they work, such as remembering preferences expressed by a user or tracking a user's use of a website for statistical analysis. Cookies do not themselves contain any personally identifying information but if you provide information to us, it may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
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PURPOSE |
COOKIE |
DESCRIPTION |
SERVICE |
STATUS |
EXPIRY |
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Microsoft.NET |
ASP.NET_SessionId |
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. |
Essential |
Session |
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AZURE |
ai_session |
This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statictical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie. |
Essential |
Session |
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ai_user |
This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statictical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time. |
Essential |
1 year |
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ARRAffinity |
This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. |
Essential |
Session |
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TiPMix |
Required for EpiServer release process |
Essential |
Session |
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x-ms-routing-name |
The string x-ms-routing-name=self specifies the production slot. Once the client browser access the link, not only is it redirected to the production slot, but every subsequent request will contain the x-ms-routing-name=self cookie that pins the session to the production slot. |
Essential |
Session |
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CLOUDFLARE |
__cfduid |
Cookie assoiated with sites using CloudFlare, used to speed up page load times. According to CloudFlare it is used to override any security restrictions based on the IP address the visitor is coming from. It does not contain any user identification information. |
Essential |
1 year |
|
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_ga |
This cookie name is asssociated 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 sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. |
Non-essential |
2 years |
|
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_gat_UA-32710642-1 |
This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
Non-essential |
Session |
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_gid |
This cookie name is asssociated 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. |
Non-essential |
1 day |
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_gcl_au |
Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services |
Non-essential |
3 months |