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Google analytics
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Google analytics
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Purpose
Expires
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These help us count how many people visit on magistrates.judiciary.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before
2 years
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These help us count how many people visit on magistrates.judiciary.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before
24 hours
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These help us to manage how we collect analytics when we have lots of visitors on the site at one time
10 minutes
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Google Floodlight
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IDE
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2 years
ANID
One of the main advertising cookies on non-Google sites is named ‘IDE‘ and is stored in browsers under the domain doubleclick.net. Another is stored in google.com and is called ANID. We use other cookies with names such as DSID, FLC, AID, TAID, and exchange_uid. Other Google properties, like YouTube, may also use these cookies to show you more relevant ads
2 years
NID
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2 years
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Google Conversion Linker
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Used by Google DoubleClick segment users into audience types and attribute campaign performance to your actions on this website, including conversions.
90 days
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To store ad click information (only if remarketing cookies are enabled), generate unique IDs for visitors to remember preferences and track and gather statistics and conversion rates through the website.
90 days
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To store ad click information (only if remarketing cookies are enabled), generate unique IDs for visitors to remember preferences and track and gather statistics and conversion rates through the website.
90 days
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3 months
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3 months
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3 months
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3 months
PSUK_source
Custom cookie for measuring campaign performance.
30 days
Google Analytics 4
Google Analytics 4 tracking
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Google Analytics 4
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ga
These help us count how many people visit on magistrates.judiciary.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before
2 years
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Used to persist session state
2 years
LinkedIn Insights
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LinkedIn Insights
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Purpose
Expires
bcookie
Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely indentify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform and diagnostic purposes
1 year
lidc
To facilitate data center selection
24 hours
li_gc
Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes
6 months
bscookie
Used for remembering that a logged in user is verified by two factor authentication and has previously logged in
1 year
JSESSIONID
Used for Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection and URL signature validation
Session
lang
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Session
sdsc
Signed data service context cookie used for database routing to ensure consistency across all databases when a change is made. Used to ensure that user-inputted content is immediately available to the submitting user upon submission
Session
li_mc
Used as a temporary cache to avoid database lookups for a member\\\\\\\'s consent for use of non-essential cookies and used for having consent information on the client side to enforce consent on the client side
6 months
UID
scorecardresearch.com - Cookie used for market and user research
720 days
UserMatchHistory
LinkedIn Ads ID syncing
30 days
AnalyticsSyncHistory
Used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie
30 days
lms_ads
Used to identify LinkedIn Members off LinkedIn for advertising
30 days
lms_analytics
Used to identify LinkedIn Members off LinkedIn for analytics
30 days
li_fat_id
Various, first party domain - Member indirect identifier for Members for conversion tracking, retargeting, analytics
30 days
li_sugr
Used to make a probabilistic match of a user\\\\\\\'s identity
90 days
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Used to identify a LinkedIn Member for advertising through Google Ads
90 days
BizographicsOptOut
Used to determine opt-out status for non-members
10 years
li_giant
Various, first-party domain - Indirect indentifier for groups of LinkedIn Members used for conversion tracking
7 days
oribi_cookie_test
Various, first-party domain - To determine if tracking can be enabled on current domain
Session
oribili_user_guid
oribili_user_guid Various, first-party domain - Used to count unique visitors to a website
1 year
ln_or
Various, first-party domain - Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain
1 day
ar_debug
arious, first-party domain - Supports Google attribution reporting API integration to mitigate signal loss
Session
Nextdoor pixel
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Nextdoor pixel
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Purpose
Expires
WE3P
This cookie is for 3rd party cookie based attribution
2 years
WE
This identifies browser
2 years
WERC
Session cookie
session
Third-party cookies
Video Streaming
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Video Streaming
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YouTube
YouTube videos play in privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set third-party cookies on your computer when you click on the YouTube video player. These cookies will not be personally identifiable.
These cookies will always need to be on because they make our site work.
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All users
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wordpress_test_cookie
This is used to test whether the browser accepts cookies
When you close your browser
PHPSESSID
This is used to link your device to the information sent to the server from your browser. It is typically used to avoid you having to retype information when moving from one page to another.
When you close your browser
ccfw-banner-hidden
Lets us know you have chosen which cookies are used so we can stop the cookie banner appearing when you return to the site.
1 year
ccfw-gtm-allowed
Lets us know you have accepted certain cookies so we can stop them loading when you return to the site.
1 year
ccfw-time
This is used to store the cookie expiry dates so we know when to ask you again for consent.
1 year
ccfw_gtm_id
GTM-MZQZDQS - is the ID for the Magistrates Recruitment website. This cookie is used to link the cookie consent banner to Google Tag Manager
1 year
info_banner_dismissed
This remembers if an information banner has been dismissed and prevents it from being displayed again.
When you close your browser
Logged in users
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Logged in users
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Purpose
Expires
wordpress_[hash]
This authenticates you when you log in to the admin area
When you close your browser
wordpress_logged_in
This shows the site that you’re logged in and who you are so you can access the functions you need
When you close your browser
wordpress_sec
If you are logged in as a site admin, this stores your authentication details.
When you close your browser
wp-settings-{time}-[UID]
The number on the end [UID] is your individual user ID from the users database.
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