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Why we use cookies
When you visit www.excellencegateway.org.uk we use cookies to store details about your visit. We do this to:
- Store information needed to make the website and the applications on it work properly
- Customise the site and its services so they remember your preferences
- Find out how people are using the site
We encourage you to accept the cookies our website uses as some are needed for the site to work for you. And they also help us to improve the services the site and the Foundation provides you with.
What are cookies?
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Controlling and deleting cookies
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- Our privacy policy and website disclaimer
Cookies used
| Name of system | Cookie name | What is the cookie used for? | How long does the cookie persist for? |
| Google Analytics | _ga | Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This to ensure that the website is available when you want it and fast. | Two years |
| Javascript | has_js | Identifies whether a browser has Javascript enabled to display Javascript elements or go to non-Javascript . | Expires at the end of the session |
| Cookies allowed | cookie-agreed-en | Stores the user’s response as to whether non-essential domain-specific cookies can be used. | Three months |
| Performance improvements | authcache | Essential cookie used to improve caching performance for unauthenticated and authenticated users | One month |
| Account login | SESS_random_strin | Used to identify your user session | One month |
| Share This | __uset __stid |
Allowing easy integration with numerous social networks, including Facebook, Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn. | One day One year |
| Google+ | NID OTZ |
Integration with the Google+ APIs sets various session cookies on the .google.com domain. These are used to transfer login and user information between different Google sites. | 6 months One month |