Information about our use of cookies
Cookies are small text files that may be downloaded to your device by websites 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 website. This website uses different types of cookies to help us to provide you with a good experience and also to allow us to track usage of and improve our site.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Essential/necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that are essential for the security of the website and visitor.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works and analyse how you interact with our website after we’ve emailed you.
- Functional cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you (for example content relevant to your region) and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting/advertising cookies. These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are placed by Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Microsoft with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Microsoft.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in below:
Essential/Necessary Cookies
- sessionid
This cookie is used by our website to serve you the correct region and remember your preferences.
(Expires: 14 days] - region_code
This cookie is used by our website to serve you the correct region.
(Expires: end of session)
Analytical/Performance Cookies
- _ga
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
(Expires: 2 years) - __gid
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected includes the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
(Expires: 1 day) - _gcl_au
This cookie is used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website.
(Expires: 3 months) - _gat_UA_20825719-4
This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.
(Expires: 1 minute) - CLID
This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity and stores information about how visitors use the website. The cookie contributes to the creation of an analysis report. The data collection includes numbers of visitors, where they visit the website from and pages visited on the website.
(Expires: 1 year) - SM
This cookie is used by Microsoft's Clarity analytics service to synchronise the MUID across Microsoft domains.
(Expires: end of session) - _clck
This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected includes the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
(Expires: 1 year) - _clsk
This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing.
(Expires: 1 day) - AnalyticsSyncHistory
This cookie is set by Linkedin. This cookie is used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the designated countries.
(Expires: 1 month) - msd365mkttr
This cookie is used by Microsoft Dynamics to identify the end user by browser.
(Expires: 1 year) - DV
This cookie is used by Google to collect information about how visitors use our site.
(Expires: 1 hour) - lux_uid
This cookie is used to group a user’s page visits together as a single session for site speed analysis.
(Expires: 30 mins) - MUID
This cookie is used by Microsoft as a unique identifier. The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft scripts. The purpose of this cookie is to synchronise the ID across many different Microsoft domains to enable user tracking.
(Expires: 1 year 24 days) - MR
This cookie is used by Microsoft as a unique identifier. The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft scripts. The purpose of this cookie is to synchronise the ID across many different Microsoft domains to enable user tracking.
(Expires: 7 days) - ANONCHK
This cookie is used by Microsoft for storing the session ID for a user. This cookie ensures that clicks from advertisement on the Bing search engine are verified and it is used for reporting purposes and for personalisation.
(Expires: 10 minutes) - SRM_B
This cookie identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes.
(Expires: 1 year 24 days) - CONSENT
This cookie is used by Google to store a user’s state regarding their cookie choices.
(Expires: 2 years)
Functional Cookies
- Lang
This cookie is set by LinkedIn and is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time the user visits the website.
(Expires: end of session) - lidc
This cookie is set by LinkedIn and used for routing.
(Expires: 1 day) - bcookie
This cookie is set by LinkedIn. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page.
(Expires: 2 years) - 79f08280-5c63-4331-b04d-fb6f39afda51
This cookie is used by Microsoft Dynamics to identify the end user by browser.
(Expires: 1 year) - 319af4c0-e197-4de9-8a9b-fe98c8a2ca04
This cookie is used by Microsoft Dynamics to find out how much time the user spent on the page.
(Expires: end of session) - AEC
This cookie is used by Google to ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites.
(Expires: 6 months) - HSID
This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time.
(Expires: 1 year) - SID
This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time.
(Expires: 1 year) - SIDCC
This cookie is used by Google to provide the identification of trusted web traffic.
(Expires: 1 year) - SSID
This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time.
(Expires: 1 year) - incap_ses*
This cookie is used by Microsoft Dynamics to link HTTP requests to a specific visit.
(Expires: end of session) - nlbi*
This cookie is used by Microsoft Dynamics to link user requests to a single session.
(Expires: end of session) - visid_incap*
This cookie is used by Microsoft Dynamics to link the user to a single device.
(Expires: 1 year)
Targeting/Advertising Cookies
- test_cookie
This cookie is set by doubleclick.net (part of Google). The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users' browser supports cookies.
(Expires: 15 minutes) - _fbp
This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website.
(Expires: 3 months) - bscookie
This cookie is a browser ID cookie set by LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags.
(Expires: 2 years) - UserMatchHistory
This cookie is set by Linkedin. This cookie is used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.
(Expires: 1 month) - APISID
This cookie is used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions.
(Expires: 1 year) - HSID
This cookie contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time.
(Expires: 1 year) - IDE
This cookie is used to show Google ads on non-Google sites.
(Expires: 1 year) - NID
This cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users.
(Expires: 6 months) - OTZ
This cookie is used by Google Analytics to provide an analysis of website visitors in aggregate.
(Expires: 1 month) - SAPISID
This cookie is used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions.
(Expires: 1 year) - SOCS
This cookie is used by Google to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices.
(Expires: 13 months) - __Secure-ENID
This cookie is used by Google to remember your preferences and other information.
(Expires: 1 year) - __Secure-1PAPISID
This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising.
(Expires: 2 years) - __Secure-1PSID
This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising.
(Expires: 2 years) - __Secure-1PSIDCC
This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant & personalised Google advertising.
(Expires: 1 year) - __Secure-3PAPISID
This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising.
(Expires: 2 years) - __Secure-3PSID
This cookie is used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising.
(Expires: 2 years) - __Secure-3PSIDCC
This cookie is used by Google to build a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting.
(Expires: 1 year) - ln_or
This cookie is set by LinkedIn and registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website.
(Expires: 1 day) - li_gc
This cookie is used by LinkedIn to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes.
(Expires: 6 months) - li_sugr
This cookie is used by LinkedIn to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries.
(Expires: 3 months) - lidc
This cookie is used by LinkedIn to facilitate data centre selection.
(Expires: 1 day)
How to control and delete cookies
When users first visit our website, we give them the option to accept or decline non-essential cookies in our ‘cookie pop-up’. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by visiting our cookies preference page.
At any time if you wish to restrict, block or delete the cookies that are set by our website, or any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
For more information about cookies (including how to disable them) please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/. For information about how you can opt out of Google's use of cookies or device identifiers please visit Google's Ads Settings. To learn how to opt out of a third-party vendors’ use of cookies for interest-based advertising in general please visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
Further Information
To learn more about who we are, how we protect your privacy and how you can contact us, please see our Privacy Policy.
We hope this has clarified our use of cookies on this website. However, if you are still looking for more information, then please email us at privacy@lodlaw.com.