Cookie Policy
Cookies
Cookies are small data files that are sent from a website to your computer or mobile phone via a browser. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. They are stored on the hard drive of your device. Some are stored just for the duration of your visit to the website, others are stored for much longer periods.
This page tells you about how the Professor Assessor Ltd sales website (www.professorassessor.co.uk) uses cookies.
How We Use Cookies
Our website, like many others, stores and retrieves information on your browser using cookies. This information is used to make the site work as you expect it to. It is not personally identifiable to you, but it can be used to give you a more personalised web experience.
Cookies help us identify your device and actions taken on this website. Cookies are also used when staff of Professor Assessor Ltd log into the site in order to maintain it. We use strictly necessary and functional cookies to enable you to move around the site and to provide basic features.
The cookies used on www.professorassessor.co.uk are not used to identify you personally.
Managing Your Cookies
Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose to change your privacy preferences to prevent non-essential cookies being set. This functionality is provided by the Professor Assessor Privacy Preference Tool.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer (including those from this visit) as well as more general information about cookies.
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile device, you will need to refer to your handset manual.
Specific Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
The www.professorassessor.co.uk website is managed using a content management system (CMS) called DNN Platform (DNN).
| Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| CookieControl | CIVIC UK | This cookie is necessary to store your cookie consent setting. | 90 days |
| .ASPXANONYMOUS | DNN Platform | This cookie is used by sites using the .NET technology platform from Microsoft. It enables the site to maintain an anonymous user-id to track unique users within a session. | 10 weeks |
| dnn_IsMobile | DNN Platform | A DNN cookie used by the CMS to determine if the Visitor is browsing from a Mobile Device. | When you close your browser |
| language | DNN Platform | This cookie is issued by DNN and is necessary for site functionality. | When you close your browser |
The following necessary cookies are only used when staff of Professor Assessor Ltd log into the www.professorassessor.co.uk website in order to maintain it. No personally identifiable information about other visitors to this website are collected by these cookies.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASP.NET_SessionId | DNN Platform | This cookie is issued by ASP.NET and is necessary for site functionality. | When you close your browser |
| _RequestVerificationToken | DNN Platform | This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET by Microsoft. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website. | When you close your browser |
| LastPageId | DNN Platform | A DNN cookie used by the CMS to store the TabID of the last visited page. | When you close your browser |
| StayInEditMode | DNN Platform | A DNN cookie used by the CMS to determine the user interface state across postbacks. | When you close your browser |
| USERNAME_CHANGED | DNN Platform | A DNN cookie used by the CMS to store Username on Login. | When you close your browser |
| Session Storage | DNN Platform | Session cookies are used to store temporary information while you browse the site and are necessary for site functionality. | When you close your browser |
| authentication | DNN Platform | A DNN forms authentication cookie (created when a user logs in). | When you close your browser |
Analytics Cookies
These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.
All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga, _gat, _gid, 1P_JAR, APISID, HSID, NID, SAPISID, SID | Google Analytics | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Site. | _ga: 2 years, _gat: 1 minute, _gid: 24 hours |
| __utma | Google Analytics | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie lasts for 2 years by default. | 2 years |
| __utmb | Google Analytics | This is one of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service which determines new sessions and visits and expires after 30 minutes. | 30 minutes |
| __utmc | Google Analytics | This cookie is set to enable interoperability with the older version of Google Analytics code. | When you close your browser |
| __utmt | Google Analytics | This cookie is set by Google Analytics to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | 10 minutes |
| __utmv | Google Analytics | This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to store visitor-level custom variable data. | 2 years |
| __utmz | Google Analytics | This cookie identifies the source of traffic to the site so Google Analytics can tell site owners where visitors came from when arriving on the site. | 6 months |
Advertising Cookies
| Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| DSID, id | DoubleClick by Google | DoubleClick uses these cookies to improve reporting on advertising campaign performance. We do not display adverts on our website. Cookies themselves contain no personally identifiable information. | DSID: 2 weeks Id: When browser is closed |
Can I Turn Cookies Off?
You can choose to disable cookies in your browser and delete all cookies currently stored on your computer. Our sales site (www.professorassessor.co.uk) will still work, but if you are employed by Professor Assessor Ltd then you will not be able to log into the site to maintain it.