Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

We use essential cookies to make our site work. We'd also like to set up optional cookies as explained in section 2. These will only be set up if you accept.

If you click on a cookie, you'll see a short string of text and numbers, this is your identification card, and it can only be seen by the website server that gave you the cookie. You can learn more about cookies on the ICO website.

We use both essential and optional analytical cookies. You are able to select whether you are comfortable to allow these analytical cookies. 

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on manage your cookie preferences .

First-party cookies are those that we set directly from RSSB’s websites; third party cookies are cookies that are loaded because of the way we integrate tools and content from other websites. We use both of these types of cookies to run and help improve our websites. For detailed information about the cookies we use please refer to the table below: 

Essential cookies

These cookies support use of the different parts of the RSSB websites. Without them, the services that you’ve asked for can’t be provided.

Cookie examples	Purpose	Expiry
Sitecore Experience Platform ASP.NET SessionID ASP.NET_SessionId	To enable our websites to work. e.g. displaying web pages. To enable features that users have specifically asked for. To sign you into an RSSB website and to manage your access privileges. To monitor that the access to, and use of RSSB services and products is in line with relevant licence conditions and appropriate use. To enable a service to recognise your computer so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task. To recognise that you have already logged in, so you don't need to do it for every web page requested. To remember your preferences.	On session expiry
Civic Cookie control	To allow you to control and manage your cookie preferences.	On Session Expiry

Analytical Cookies

These cookies are optional and allow us to collate and analyse data and your use of the websites.   The purpose of collecting this information is to allow us to improve the services we provide.  

We also use cookies that identify you, which further helps us understand how people are using our websites. These cookies may include geolocation data, based on your IP address, but this does not provide your exact location.

In the table below please see the details of the individual cookies we use and how they work.

Cookie examples	Purpose	Expiry
Google analytics _gid, _ga Google's cookies policy. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit here.	We analyse anonymous data to help us understand how people interact with our services so we can make them better. e.g, we identify areas in higher demand analyse data to help us understand how people are using the websites.	Between 1 minute to 2 years.
Sitecore Analytics Cookies Sitecore Experience Platform SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE	Sitecore’s analytics cookies allows us to collect analytics in a way that identifies you and your use of the websites. The Sitecore Analytics data is collated and stored within RSSB record(s). The purpose of collecting this information is to allow us to understand how people are using our websites so we can provide better, improved services.	1 year
Hotjar . _hjid _hjAbsoluteSessionIn Progress	Collects data on how visitors interact with RSSB websites, such as clicks, scrolls, and user behaviour when visiting.	Between 1 minute to 1 year.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the manage your cookie preferences . You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save Preferences’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

You can use this link to manage your cookie preferences for our website at any time.

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.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Information on managing cookies on popular browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Apple Safari

For others, visit the browser developer's website. Please be aware that restricting essential cookies may impact the way our website works for you.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. 

This site records your IP (Internet Protocol) address.  Your IP address identifies the computer that you used to register your subscription (where required).  This information is used only to verify the computer that was used to register your subscription.

Each page visited within this site is recorded in a log file.  The contents of the log file are analysed to determine how many visitors we serve, which pages are most frequently viewed and where visitors connect from. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For cookies relating to the RISQS website please manage your preferences on the pop up that appears for that site and refer to this link for more information. For information about cookies set in relation to CIRAS website (s) please refer to CIRAS Cookie Policy.

This Cookie Policy applies to RSSB websites. You can find out about how we look after your data in the RSSB Privacy Notice.

Questions, comments and requests regarding this statement are welcome and should be addressed to the Data Protection Officer. You can contact the Data Protection Officer at data.protection@rssb.co.uk

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. This Cookie Policy includes the date last updated.