Cookies
Websites use techniques to enhance user-friendliness and to make the site as interesting as possible for each visitor.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit.
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.
A cookie stores select pieces of information based on your visit to the College website.
Examples of data stored within cookie files would be information you input into a registration form e.g. email address, first name and last name, and post code.
These cookies either last for the length of time you use the website or may stay on your computer for a limited period of time to allow the website to recognise you if you return.
We use cookies to provide you with an easier and more customised service as well as tracking how visitors use the website.
How to control or delete cookies
You can easily block or delete cookies, through your browser. You can reject all or certain cookies.
You can also configure your browser to get notifications when a cookie is offered.
For help on how to delete cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org.
Please be aware, though, that if you reject cookies your experience of the College website may not reach its full potential.
Cookies we use
Cookies enable us to tailor particular parts of the site to your needs. See the table below for more information about the cookies we use.
www.rcpsych.ac.uk
Common Cookie Name | CookieID |
Description |
|---|---|---|
| Necessary | _RequestVerificationToken | Helps prevent Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks |
| Necessary | ASP.NET_SessionId | Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests |
Preferences | lang | Remembers the user's selected language version of a website |
| Statistics | _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
| Statistics | _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
| Statistics | _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
| Marketing | bcookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services |
| Marketing | BizoID | The BizoID cookie stores a unique LinkedIn user ID. Note: The LinkedIn user ID does not contain personally identifiable information |
| Marketing | bscookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services |
| Marketing | UserMatchHistory | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking of LinkedIn user ID |
| Marketing | fr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
| Marketing | lidc | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the user of embedded services |
| Marketing | r/collect | This cookie is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. It tracks visitor across devices and marketing channels |
| Marketing | tr | Facebook pixel tracker |
| Unclassified | _fbp | Unclassified |
tron.rcpsych.ac.uk
| Cookie common name | CookieID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| RCPsychPassport | RCPsychPassport | Form Authentication cookie |
| AdditionalInfoCookie | additionalInfoCookie | Form Authentication cookie |
| Immediacy Auth Cookie | .IMMAUTH | Tracks user login session and ensure user remains logged throughout the session |
| Request Validation | __RequestVerificationToken | Stores verification token to prevent cross-site request forgery |
| AspNet Cookie | .AspNet.ApplicationCookie | Store encrypted and signed user claims |
| Analytics | IDE | Used by search engines to track advertising clicks |
| Analytics | NID | Used by search engines to track advertising clicks |
| Analytics | _ga | Used to identify unique visit. |
| Analytics | _gat | Used to throttle the request rate |
| Analytics | _gid | Used to distinguish visitors visit |
| Google Analytics | __utma | Helps to calculate unique visitor numbers |
| Google Analytics | __utma | Helps to calculate unique visitor numbers |
| Google Analytics | __utmb | Helps to calculate visitor session length |
| Google Analytics | __utmc | Helps to calculate visitor session length and whether a session has expired |
| Google Analytics | __utmz | Works out referrals from other domains |
| Cookie consent message | seen_cookie_message | Saves a message to let us know that you've seen our cookie message |
www.psychiatrycpd.co.uk
| Cookie common name | CookieID | Description |
|---|---|---|
| RCPsychPassport | RCPsychPassport | Form Authentication cookie |
| AdditionalInfoCookie | additionalInfoCookie | Form Authentication cookie |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | ASP.NET_SessionId | Stores encrypted session id |
| Immediacy Auth Cookie | .IMMAUTH | Tracks user login session and ensure user remains logged throughout the session |
| Request Validation | __RequestVerificationToken | Stores verification token to prevent cross-site request forgery |
| AspNet Cookie | .AspNet.ApplicationCookie | Store encrypted and signed user claims |
| Analytics | IDE | Used by search engines to track advertising clicks |
| Analytics | NID | Used by search engines to track advertising clicks |
| Universal Analytics (Google) | _ga | Used to identify unique visit. |
| Universal Analytics (Google) | _gat | Used to throttle the request rate |
| Universal Analytics (Google) | _gid | Used to distinguish visitors visit |
| Google Analytics | __utma | Helps to calculate unique visitor numbers |
| Google Analytics | __utmz | Works out referrals from other domains |
| Google Analytics | __utmb | Helps to calculate visitor session length |
| Google Analytics | __utmc | Helps to calculate visitor session length and whether a session has expired |
| Cookie consent message | seen_cookie_message | Saves a message to let us know that you've seen our cookie message |