What is a cookie?
This website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of this website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computers hard drive.
Cookies help to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allow us to improve our website. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
We use the following cookies:
LinkedIn Insight Tag - The LinkedIn Insight Tag helps us analyse the behaviour of visitors to our site who have come through LinkedIn adverts, and also helps us target advertising on LinkedIn. LinkedIn cookie table.
Marketing cookies - These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Strictly necessary cookies - These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
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, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in this table:
Name | Essential to the users | Supplied from | Expiry length | Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
XSRF-TOKEN | YES | .globalscot.com | End of Session | This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. |
laravel_session | YES | .globalscot.com | End of Session | This is used to hold information about your current visit with us. This cookie is essential to the security and functionality of the website. |
Google Analytics | ||||
_ga | YES | .globalscot.com | after 2 years | Google Analytics helps us analyse the behaviour of users on our site, such as which pages they view, how long they spend on each page, and which elements they interact with. |
_gat | YES | .globalscot.com | after 1 minute | Used to limit the collection of analytics data on high traffic websites. |
_gid | YES | .globalscot.com | When browser is closed | This cookie is used to distinguish unique users. |
Other cookies | ||||
Accept Cookie | YES | .globalscot.com | After 2 years | Stores the users acceptance of the cookie policy |
This website will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by this, or any third party websites, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.
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This and our other websites use a number of suppliers who set cookies on our behalf in order to deliver the services that they are providing. We are constantly reviewing our use of cookies and, as such, this cookies policy will be regularly renewed to include up to date information about the cookies used by our suppliers. We would highly recommend that you check this page on a regular basis.