Cookie policy
Information about our use of cookies
Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site. When you use our site, a banner will be displayed asking you for your consent to our use of cookies.
What are cookies?
- A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is saved onto your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit our site.
- Cookies store small pieces of information. For example, one type of cookie will remember that you have visited our site before.
- Cookies help us to improve your visit and experience when browsing our site by, for example, storing certain information so you don’t have to re-enter it on subsequent visits.
- Cookies also assist us in tracking which pages of the website you have visited. We will not store credit card details in cookies we create.
- We use both persistent cookies (which stay with your computer and will work until their expiry date, unless detected by you beforehand) and session cookies (which expire when you close your browser).
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly Necessary cookies. These cookies are essential for the operation of our site.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise use when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences.
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ai_user | www.ppl-london.com | Microsoft Azure sets this cookie as a unique user identifier cookie, enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time. | 1 year | Analytics |
_msci | www.ppl-london.com | 1 year | Functional | |
_ga_* | .ppl-london.com | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
_ga | .ppl-london.com | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Analytics |
bcookie | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets this cookie to track the use of embedded services. | 1 year | Advertising |
li_gc | .linkedin.com | Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor's consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. | 6 months | Functional |
| lidc | .linkedin.com | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data centre selection. | 1 day | Functional |
| __cf_bm | .linkedin.com | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. | 1 hour | Necessary |
| ai_session | www.ppl-london.com | This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie set by Microsoft Application Insights software to gather statistical usage and telemetry data for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. | 1 hour | Analytics |
| cisession_dd | ppl-london.com | Used to manage the user's session | Session duration | Functional |
| cisession_previous | ppl-london.com | Used to manage the user's session | Session duration | Functional |
| AI_buffer | ppl-london.com | Used to manage the user's session | Session duration | Functional |
| AI_sentBuffer | ppl-london.com | Used to manage the user's session | Session duration | Functional |
Civic Cookie | CookieControl | Functionality Cookie -Records the setting of the Cookie Control message. | 90 days |
Your interaction with cookies
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Changes to this policy
We may update, change, modify, add or remove portions of this policy at any time, and any changes will become effective immediately. Please visit this page periodically if you want to keep up to date.