Our cookies

Introduction
When you view our Website we may store information on the hard drive of your computer or on your mobile device in the form of a “cookie” (essentially a small text file). Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies
“Cookies” (also known as HTTP cookies, web cookies or browser cookies) are simply small pieces of data, which are stored as text files on your computer, whenever you visit certain websites. Their typical purpose is to help sites remember particular actions you may have taken in the past. For example, cookies may track when you have logged into a site, visited certain pages or clicked certain buttons.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, ITE Group plc) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. advertising, videos and website analytics services). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are ‘session cookies’, meaning that they exist only while your website browser is open and are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are ‘permanent cookies’, meaning that they survive after your browser is closed and can be used by websites to recognise your computer when you later re-open your browser and browse the internet again.

We use cookies for several reasons. For example, cookies enable us to track the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website. Third parties serve cookies through our website for analytics and other purposes. The specific types of cookies used on this Website and the purposes they perform are described in the table below:

Types of cookie What they do

First Party
(This website’s primary domain)

ASP.NET_SessionID (expires end of session) 
Used to track important logical information for the smooth operation of the site.

CMSCurrentTheme (expires after 1 day)
Stores the name of the current visual theme to provide proper design to the dialog windows.

CMSPreferredCulture (expires after 1 year)
Stores the visitor’s preferred content culture/language.
Third Party CookieGuard (expires after 1 year)
This cookie is essential for acknowledging the status of your cookie acceptance.

ASP.NET_SessionId (expires end of session)
Preserves the session language across page requests to ensure you are able to navigate the website smoothly. This cookie is set by Investis, the provider of our publicly available financial information, such as current share price.

incap_ses_# (expires end of session)
Preserves the session language across page requests to ensure you are able to navigate the website smoothly. This cookie is set by Investis, the provider of our publicly available financial information, such as current share price.

visid_incap_# (expires after 1 year)
Preserves any user preferences set in the navigation of out financial data, such as period of analysis. This cookie is set by Investis, the provider of our publicly available financial information, such as historical share prices.

Performance and functionality cookies

These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.
First Party Event-View (expires end of session)
Is used to store your favourite events and the way you choose to view them.
Third Party __cfduid (expires after 6 years) 
In order to protect our website from security threats such as hackers and to boost its performance, we route our DNS through CloudFlare. The “__cfduid” cookie is set by the CloudFlare service.

Analytics and customisation cookies

These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how the website is being used or how effective are marketing campaigns are, or to help us customise the website for you.
Third Party  Google Analytics:
__utma (expires after 2 years)
This keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred.

__utmb (expires after 30 minutes)
This cookie helps calculate how long a visit takes by collecting a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters the site.

__utmc (expires end of each session)
This cookie helps calculate how long a visit takes by collecting a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves the site. It stays for 30 minutes for another pageview to happen, and if it doesn’t, it expires.

__utmz (expires end of each session)
This keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked on, what keywords used, and where in the world the site was accessed from.

__ga (expires after 2 years)
This cookie is used to distinguish users.

__gat (expires end of each session)
This cookie is used to determine new sessions/visits.

__gid (expires end of each session)
This cookie is used in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.

New Relic

NREUM (Deleted when the browser closes)
This cookie is only created in browsers that do not support the Navigation Timing API. When a browser supports the Navigation Timing API, a native interface can be used to determine navigation start time.

NRAGENT (Deleted when the browser closes)
This cookie is created only when a token is handed out to an end user by the New Relic server.

JSESSIONID (Deleted when the browser closes)
The JSESSIONID cookie is used to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. The cookie value is generated by Jetty.

vuid (expires after 2 years)
This cookie records the number of views of our video content. This cookie is set by Vimeo.

Social networking & marketing cookies

These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our website through third party social networking websites.
First Party
Third Party  ADD THIS:
_uid (expires after 2 years)
Uniquely assigned machine-generated user ID.

_di/dt (expires after 1 day)
Maintenance cookies that help manage expiration for other cookies.

_uvc (expires after 2 years)
Measures how often we see an AddThis user.

_psc (expires after 90 days)
These cookies are used in recording user sharing and social activity.

_loc (expires after 90 days)
Geolocation, used to help publishers know approximately where people sharing information are located. (State level).

MARKETO:

_mkto_trk (expires after 2 years)
This cookie allows us to collect information about how users engage with our website and links it to other marketing activity they may have received. The cookie includes data such as how a visitor arrived at our site, how often they have visited, and which pages they looked at.

Are cookies harmful?
Cookies cannot harm you or your computer. They cannot contain viruses, cannot install harmful software and cannot damage your computer in any way. Although ITE uses cookies to gather encrypted information to improve your user experience, this information is never personally identifiable. We do not use cookies to store any sensitive information, such as name, address or contact details.

Despite this, if you do wish to disable or remove cookies, please see the “Help” section of your browser or mobile device. Each browser or device handles the management of cookies differently, so you will need to refer to your appropriate “Help” documentation.

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website; however, your access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted.

If you would like to find out more information about cookies and your rights to control their use, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

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