Use of cookies by NWL
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to make this site more useful. They help us to identify your computer, and provide us with information on how this site is being used. You can set your web browser to reject cookies. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use various parts of this website.
What are cookies exactly?
Cookies make your experience of using web sites faster and easier. They are not programs and cannot carry viruses or install malware on your computer. Cookies allow web sites to create a customised view of pages to which you navigate. For example, they are commonly used to authenticate or identify registered users of a website without requiring them to sign in each time they access it. Other uses include maintaining a 'shopping basket' of goods a user has chosen to purchase, site personalisation (presenting different pages to different users) and tracking the pages a user has visited on a site for analysis purposes.
A cookie often includes a unique identifier, which is a randomly generated number. This is stored on your device's hard drive. Many cookies are automatically deleted after you finish using a website.
Cookies may come with or without an expiry date. Cookies without an expiry date (session cookie) exist until the browser is closed, while cookies with an expiry date may be stored by the device until the expiry date passes.
You can restrict or block cookies set by NWL but this may limit your use of some functionality, such as filling in forms and getting access to password protected areas that are in use across any of the sites we manage. However, most things you do on our site will still be possible even with cookies disabled.
Cookies are sent to your browser (whether you use Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Safari or any other browser) by a website and then stored in the cookies directory of your device.
If you would like more information, please click on www.allaboutcookies.org. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon you visit our site. If you continue to use our site, you agree to our use of cookies.
The table below explains the cookies we may use on our website, and why.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
| Cookie |
Type |
Expiration |
Description |
| ARRAffinity |
First-party |
Session |
This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. |
| ARRAffinitySameSite |
First-party |
Session |
When using Microsoft Azure as a hosting platform and enabling load balancing, this cookie ensures that requests from one visitor browsing session are always handled by the same server in the cluster. |
Performance Cookies
| Cookie |
Type |
Expiration |
Description |
| _ga |
First-party |
1 year 1 month |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
| _gid |
First-party |
1 day |
This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. |
| _gat |
First-party |
60 seconds |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. |
| _ga_BPRTWS803L |
First-party |
1 year 1 month |
This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
Unclassified Cookies
| Cookie |
Type |
Expiration |
Description |
| cookieTerms |
First-party |
1 year |
This cookie is set to prove that you have accepted the cookie information and will not be shown the cookie banner again. |
Please note that any third party websites you may visit by hyperlink from our site may also use cookies, over which we have no control.