Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Introduction

This Cookie Policy applies to our use of cookies in connection with this website https://code.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk (the “Site”). We use cookies on the Site to help make your visits more effective. By continuing to browse the Site without adjusting your browser settings to block cookies (for information about how to do this please see below), you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

References to "you" or "your" are references to any person accessing the Site. References to "we", "us" or "our" are references to the Takeover Panel (“Panel”).

To understand how the Panel collects and processes personal data please refer to the Takeover Code website Privacy Policy.

What are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are sent to and temporarily stored on your computer, smartphone or other device whenever you visit a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.

We use the following types of cookies:

Necessary cookies: Necessary cookies enable core functionality on the Site such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the Site functions.
Non-essential cookies:These are optional cookies for visitors to the Site. We use these cookies only to provide us with anonymous data. We rely upon your consent to allow us to do this. We use analytical (or statistical) cookies to understand the usability of the Site. This information is processed in a way which does not identify any individual and only used for statistical and analytical data. This helps us to improve the way the Site works by, for example, understanding the number of visitors to the Site and its sections.

What cookies we use and why

Necessary

Category	Cookie name	Purpose	Expiry
ASP Identity cookie	.AspNet.ApplicationCookie	This cookie contains user Identity Claims and is encrypted using ASP.NET Identity middleware. The cookie is issued when the user logs into the website and will be sent upon subsequent requests.	Expires after 24 hours or when the user signs-out of the website
Content management cookies	__RequestVerificationToken	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.	After browsing session
Content management cookies	ASP.NET_SessionId	When a user browses to the website, a unique session ID will be associated with the user to keep track of any information that is stored for that session. This information is stored on the Web Server (known as storing information in session) and is identified via a GUID. The GUID is stored in the cookie (known as the ASP.NET_SessionID) and is essential for any ASP.NET website to function correctly. If nothing is put in the session however, no cookie will be sent to the browser so this cookie will only be created when it is needed.	This cookie will expire at the end of the session which is defined in the application configuration (which is normally around 20 minutes)
ASP Identity cookie	.AspNet.ApplicationCookie	This cookie contains user Identity Claims and is encrypted using ASP.NET Identity middleware. The cookie is issued when the user logs into the website and will be sent upon subsequent requests.	Expires after 24 hours or when the user signs-out of the website
Content management cookies	__RequestVerificationToken	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.	After browsing session
Content management cookies	ASP.NET_SessionId	When a user browses to the website, a unique session ID will be associated with the user to keep track of any information that is stored for that session. This information is stored on the Web Server (known as storing information in session) and is identified via a GUID. The GUID is stored in the cookie (known as the ASP.NET_SessionID) and is essential for any ASP.NET website to function correctly. If nothing is put in the session however, no cookie will be sent to the browser so this cookie will only be created when it is needed.	This cookie will expire at the end of the session which is defined in the application configuration (which is normally around 20 minutes)
AWS_web traffic management	AWSALB	This cookie generates the AWS ELB application load balancer and works with the cookie listed below.	7 days
AWS_web traffic management	AWSALBCORS	This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing.	7 days

Non-essential

Category	Cookie name	Purpose	Expiry
Google Analytics	_ga	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data	After 2 years
Google Analytics	_gid		After 2 years
Google Analytics	_gat_UA-72593642-1	This cookie enables us to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on our site.	After 1 hour
Performance cookie	nmstat	This cookie enables us to distinguish users and is used to collect statistics about site usage, such as when the visitor last visited the site.	Longest expiry period is 1000 days.

How to control and delete cookies

You can change your cookie settings at any time. You can block the cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.