GTBatcher Cookies Policy

What's a cookie? (It's not a biscuit)

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information about your visit to a website. When you visit a website that uses cookies, these files are downloaded to your device. When go back to either that website or another website that recognises that cookie, the files are sent back again.

How cookies improve your experience

Cookies record information about your visit to a website so you don’t waste time repeating yourself.

For example, cookies:

• record information you enter in online forms. Without cookies, information would be lost every time you go to a new page.
• recognise that you're signed in when you move within the website. Without them, you'd need to sign in each time you go to a new page.

Our website needs some cookies to work properly.

The different types of cookies

Below is a list of the ICC UK Cookie categories GTBatcher uses and the specific cookies we use within each…

• Strictly necessary cookies are essential for you to move around our website and use its features, including access to secure areas of our website. For example, these cookies confirm whether or not you’re signed in. We use:
  • .AspNetCore.Antiforgery.xxxxxxxxxx: Full name can vary - Prevents phishing attacks on the website
  • .AspNetCore.Cookies: OpenID Authentication cookie support from the authentication service
  • .AspNetCore.CookiesCx: Full name can vary - OpenID Authentication cookie support from the authentication service (extended)
  • .AspNetCore.Correlation.oidc.xxxxxxxxxx: Full name can vary - ensures authorised interropability between the authentication service and the application
  • .EsoterixIdentity: A user login cookie for our authentication service
  • Identity.Application.session: USer login session data shared between our authentication service and the application
• Analytical/performance cookies collect and analyse anonymous information about how visitors use our website, such as the number of visitors to our website, where visitors have come from, and which pages they visited. For more information, see the section on Application Insights (See below). Anonymous site performance cookies can also help us determine if users prefer certain features or options, so we can continue to improve your experience. We use:
  • .ARRAffinity: Cloud routing cookies provied by Microsoft Azure, our hosting platform
  • .ai_session: Microsoft Application Insights - Tracks site usage to allow us to tweak performance in key areas
  • .ai_user: Microsoft Application Insights - Tracks site usage to allow us to tweak performance in key areas
• Functionality cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your name, language or the region you're in) and provide an enhanced, more personalised experience. These cookies can remember changes you make to text size, fonts and other customisable features. Functionality cookies may also support services you have asked for, like watching a video. Some of information these cookies collect is anonymised but if you are logged in, we will know the details you gave us for this. Functionality cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. We use:
  • .ai_session: Microsoft Application Insights - Tracks site usage to allow us to tweak performance in key areas
  • .ai_user: Microsoft Application Insights - Tracks site usage to allow us to tweak performance in key areas
• Third party cookies gather website visitor data (such as age, gender, and interests) and allow us to optimise website content and improve our marketing; they do not collect any personally identifiable information.
  • We use Application Insights, a web analytics service provided by Microsoft. Application Insights uses cookies to help us analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to and stored by Microsoft on servers in the United States. Microsoft use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Microsoft may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Microsoft's behalf. Microsoft will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Microsoft. By using our website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Microsoft in the manner and for the purposes set out above. Unlike Google Analytics, Application Insights does not affect advertising.
  • Other third party cookies: Occasionally other organisations may also set their own anonymous cookies. Because of how cookies work, we cannot access these cookies. For example, when you share content using a Facebook share button, Facebook will record that you have done this.