We collect information about your computer, including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type to enable certain features of the website to work, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our channel partners and customers with whom we have a relationship. This is statistical data about browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
For the same reason, we obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a small file of letters and numbers (known as a cookie) which is stored on the hard drive of your computer, if you agree.
Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. Cookies help us to assess how you use our website and also how we can improve our website. This means we have the information we need to regularly evaluate whether our website meets your needs.
Some of the cookies we use improve functionality of our website, so if you choose to disable cookies on your browser, you might find that you can’t access some aspects of our website, or that parts of the website don’t function in the way you might expect them to.
Cookies help us to:
remember login details;
collect information about the way you use the site;
collect information about whether you came from the site of a panel legal firm or customer charity so that we may reflect that in how we communicate with you and share with that panel legal firm or customer charity how you used our site so they may tailor their advertising.
They also enable us to:
estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your interests;
speed up your searches; and
recognise you when you return to our site.
We are required to provide you with clear and comprehensive information about the cookies that we use and if this page does not answer all your queries you should contact us by email at [email protected].
We use:
strictly necessary cookies which are required for the operation of the site including for logging in or using the site;
analytical/performance cookies, which recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around the site;
functionality cookies which are used to recognise you when you return to the site and enable content to be personalised for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences; and
targeting cookies which record your visits to the website, pages visited and links you have followed in order to make the website and advertising more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to do so. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access or use certain parts of our site. If you would like further information please contact [email protected].
For more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them please see the table below.
Cookies | Source | Purpose |
JSESSIONID | Bequeathed | Used to track session against user authentication, i.e. to ensure that requests are coming from the same user/session |
completed_interview | Bequeathed | Tells us if you have finished the online interview |
created_interview | Bequeathed | Tells us if you have started the online interview |
evident_accept_cookies | Bequeathed | Tells us if you have or have not accepted cookies |
evident_ad_keyword | Bequeathed | Tells us which advertisement you clicked on to find your way to our website |
evident_user_active | Bequeathed | Enables us to discover whether you have used the service recently |
evident_user_email | Bequeathed | Enables us to match you when you are on our site with the email you registered with |
evident_user_name | Bequeathed | Enables us to match you when you are on our site with the name you registered with |
evident_user_registered | Bequeathed | Tells us whether you have or have not registered on our site |
evident_user_registered_unix | Bequeathed | Tells us whether you have or have not registered on our site |
exarinoprogress | Bequeathed | Helps us understand how far you have got with the online interview |
restarted_interview | Bequeathed | Tells us if you have started another online interview |
saved_interview | Bequeathed | Tells us if you have saved an online interview |
cb-enabled | Bequeathed | Determines whether or not cookies have been accepted in the cookie bar |
evident_auid | Bequeathed | Unique ID assigned to user upon registration/login, used to track user in system |
evident_postcode | Bequeathed | If you provide a postcode the system remembers it so it can present content to you based on your location |
evident_uid | Bequeathed | Unique ID assigned to user upon registration/login, used to track user in system |
evident_user_email | Bequeathed | Exposes email user registered with for use by 3rd party systems, e.g. intercom |
evident_user_name | Bequeathed | Exposes name user registered with for use by 3rd party systems, e.g. intercom |
evident_user_registered | Bequeathed | Exposes date user registered with for use by 3rd party systems, e.g. intercom |
c-user | For Facebook functionality | |
datr | For Facebook functionality | |
fr | For Facebook functionality | |
sb | For Facebook functionality | |
wd | For Facebook functionality | |
xs | For Facebook functionality | |
_ga | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish uinque users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier |
_gac | Google Analytics | Used to track conversion |
_gat | Google Analytics | Used to throttle the request rate, limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites |
_gid | Google Analytics | Used to store and update a unique value for each page visited |
_insp_dct | Inspectlet | For Inspectlet functionality |
_insp_nv | Inspectlet | For Inspectlet functionality |
_insp_sid | Inspectlet | For Inspectlet functionality |
_insp_slim | Inspectlet | For Inspectlet functionality |
_insp_targlpt | Inspectlet | For Inspectlet functionality |
_insp_targlpu | Inspectlet | For Inspectlet functionality |
_insp_uid | Inspectlet | For Inspectlet functionality |
_insp_wid | Inspectlet | For Inspectlet functionality |
_cfduid | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
__utmba | Google Analytics | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
__utmb | Google Analytics | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
__utmc | Google Analytics | Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. |
__utmt | Google Analytics | Used to throttle request rate. |
__utmz | Google Analytics | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
intercom_app_id | Intercom | Unique ID used to identify user in Intercom chat |
intercom_user_hash | Intercom | For Intercom functionality |
intercom-session | Intercom | Identifier used to track individual sessions in Intercom |
intercom-visitor-session | Intercom | For Intercom functionality |
intercom-id | Intercom | For Intercom functionality |
intercom-lou | Intercom | For Intercom functionality |
optimizelyBuckets | Optimizely | Stores JSON of the experiments and variations that a user has been bucketed into. This ensures the user consistently sees the same variation, even over multiple sessions. |
optimizelyEndUserId | Optimizely | Contains the end user's unique identifier. It is a combination of a timestamp and random number. No information about you or your customer is stored in it. |
optimizelyPendingLogEvents | Optimizely | Cookie set by the Optimizely website optimisation plaftform. Records user activity. |
optimizelySegments | Optimizely | Stores JSON of the user's audience and dimension information (e.g., browser, campaign, mobile, source type, custom dimensions). |