Cookies

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

• enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task

• recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested

• measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast

You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through Internet browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them

Our Use of cookies

Cookies for recognising users and their preferences

The UKTI website uses cookies so once you have logged on with username and password, so you don’t have to do it for every web page you request from our service and to remember your selections or preferences that you’ve already made when looking at information or using a service on the site

Name: JSESSIONID

Typical Content: holds the session ID (created when the user starts browsing)

Expires: active for the duration of session, expires after max 30 mins of inactivity (or when user closes the browser)

Name: UKTI_GUID

Typical content: detects the current user and holds the login ticket.

Expires: Destroyed on logout, if user never logs out, for example just closes the browser, the cookie will still be there - Expires after 1 year

Name: UKTI_ACCOUNT

Typical content: holds the account details for the current logged in user and provides access to account-based features.

Expires: Destroyed on logout, if user never logs out, for example just closes the browser, the cookie will still be there - Expires after 1 year

Name: PWP_LOCALE_C

Typical content: holds country

Expires: 6 months

Name: PWP_LOCALE_L

Typical content: holds language

Expires: 6 months

Name: PWP_LOCALE_R

Typical content: holds region.

Expires: 6 months

Cookies for improving service

Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.

Name: _utma

Typical content: randomly generated number

Expires: never expires

Name: _utmb

Typical content: randomly generated number

Expires: after 30 minutes of inactivity

Name: _utmc

Typical content: randomly generated number

Expires: after 30 minutes of inactivity

Name: _utmz

Typical content: randomly generated number + info on how the site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid search)

Expires: 6 months

Name: _utmv

Typical content: randomly generated number

Expires: never expires

For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code website

Hubspot cookies

Name: hubspotauthcms

Typical Content: Contains the encrypted authentication string for the HubSpot CMS

Expires: Session

Name: hubspotutktzo

Typical Content: Contains the timezone offset

Expires: Session

Name: hubspotutk

Typical Content: Contains a unique ID for the browser. This is used by our tracking systems

Expires: Feb 1, 2023

Name: hubspotauthremember

Typical Content: Boolean yes or no depending if the user opted to use the "remember me" functionality

Expires: 3 Months from creation

Cookies used on our blog

Wordpress sets cookies so that you don’t have to fill in your name and email address every time you want to comment on our blog and so you can see comments you made that are awaiting moderation.

Name: comment_author

Typical content: user name entered

Expires: 1 year

Name: comment_author_email

Typical content: user email address entered

Expires: 1 year

Name: comment_author_website

Typical content: user website url entered

Expires: 1 year

AddThis is a Social Bookmarking Widget used on the UKTI blog which allows any visitor to bookmark and share our site easily with many popular services. It uses the following cookies:

Name: di

Typical content: randomly generated text

Expires: 2 years

Name: dt

Typical content:

Expires: 1 month

Name: loc

Typical content: randomly generated number

Expires: 3 months

Name: psc

Typical content: randomly generated number

Expires: 2 years

Name: Uid

Typical content: randomly generated number

Expires: 2 years

Name: uit

Typical content: randomly generated number

Expires: 24 hours

Third party cookies

UKTI uses a variety of social media sites. You can find the details of their privacy and cookies policies using the following links:

Flickr

LinkedIn

Twitter

YouTube