What is a cookie?
Cookies are small pieces of data that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website or application.
We use them to:
- Remember information about you, so you don’t have to give it to us again.
- If you have an account, it allows us to keep you signed in as you move around the site.
- Help us understand how people are using our services, so we can make them better
- Help us personalise the site to you by remembering your preferences and settings.
Types of cookies
First-party cookies
These cookies are set by the website you’re visiting. And only that website can read them.
Third-party cookies
These cookies are set by someone other than the owner of the website you’re visiting. Some web pages may also contain content from other sites (for example YouTube), which may set their own cookies. Also, if you share a link to a page, the service you share it on (for example, Facebook) may set a cookie on your browser. We have no control over third-party cookies.
Session cookies
These cookies only last as long as your online session and disappear from your computer or device when you close your browser (like Internet Explorer, Chrome or Safari).
Persistent cookies
These cookies stay on your computer or device after your browser has been closed and last for a time specified in the cookie. We use persistent cookies when we need to know who you are for more than one browsing session. For example, if you have accepted the cookie policy, so we don’t need to keep asking you.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies let you use all the different parts of website. Without them, services that you’ve asked for can’t be provided.
Functional cookies
These help us personalise the site to you by remembering your preferences and settings. Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
- Remembering if you visited the website before so that messages for new visitors are not displayed to you
- Remembering settings on the website like colour, font size and layout
Performance cookies
These help us understand how people are using the site, so we can make it better. And they let us try out different ideas. We sometimes get other companies to analyse how people are using the site. These companies might set their own performance cookies. Some examples of how we use these cookies are:
- Collecting information on which web pages visitors go to most often so we can improve our online services
- Making sure that the website is working properly and fixing any errors
- Testing designs to help improve the look and feel of the website
Advertising cookies
Some websites use advertising networks to show you specially targeted adverts on other sites based on the sites you visit. These networks may also be able to track your browsing across different sites.
Other tracking technologies
Some sites use things like web beacons, clear GIFs, page tags and web bugs to understand how people are using them and to target advertising to them. They usually take the form of a small, transparent image that is embedded in a web page or email. They work with cookies and capture data like your IP address, when you viewed the page or email, what device you were using and where you were.
Controlling cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the websites below tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases some of our website features may not function as a result.
Which cookies are used on this site?
Find out about each of the cookies we use and how we use them.
Strictly necessary
- Host: youngpersonsguarantee.scot;
Name: has_js;
Description: Drupal uses this cookie to indicate whether or not the visitor’s browser has JavaScript enabled.
Expiry: Session;
Category: First Party, Strictly necessary
Performance
- Hosts: youngpersonsguarantee.scot, opportunities.youngpersonsguarantee.scot
Name: _ga;
Description: This cookie is used by Google Universal Analytics. 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.
Expiry: 2 Years;
Category: First Party, Performance - Host: youngpersonsguarantee.scot, opportunities.youngpersonsguarantee.scot
Name: _gid;
Description: This cookie is used by Google Universal Analytics. It stores and updates a unique value for each page visited so that we can understand users' journeys throughout the site. None of your personal details are tracked.
Expiry: 1 Day;
Category: First Party, Performance - Host: youngpersonsguarantee.scot, opportunities.youngpersonsguarantee.scot
Name: _ga_9G5QDZQH7V
Description: This cookie is used by Google Tag Manager to load additional functionality onto a webpage.
Expiry: 2 Years; - Category: First Party, Performance
- Host: youngpersonsguarantee.scot;
Name(s): _hjid, _hjClosedSurveyInvites, _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress, _hjDonePolls, _hjMinimizedPolls, _hjDoneTestersWidgets, _hjMinimizedTestersWidgets, _hjDoneSurveys, _hjIncludedInSample, _hjIncludedInPageviewSample, _hjShownFeedbackMessage; _hjFirstSeen;
Description: These cookies are set by Hotjar once a visitor interacts with a Survey, Poll, Recruit User Testing, Feedback invite or is part of a sample which is used to generate Heatmaps, Funnels, Recordings, etc. They are used to ensure that the same invite, survey, or poll does not re-appear if it has already been shown.
Expiry: 1 year;
Category: First Party, Performance