Information about our use of cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Analytical cookies

Google Analytics

_ga _ga_<account-id> _gid _gat_gtag_<account-id>

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data

Admin & non admin

PHPSESSID

Standard visit session ID.

Non admin (registration or delegate portal)

[0-9]_[0-9]	Attendee type key for registration purposes
ERCConsent	Used to flag whether the user has seen the cookie consent notification.
duk	Authentication public key.
dukrm	Used in the delegate portal so that the browser knows to remember the user's login details.

Admin

erLastPage[0-9]	Tracks the last page viewed on an Event for resuming previous sessions.
manageDelegateTab	Tracks the last tab viewed when looking at a delegate's record.
sauth	Used to flag user authentication.
sueventtabs	Tracks the last viewed tab on the event management screen.
ukrm	Used in the admin website so that the browser knows to remember the user's login details.
uk	Authentication public key.

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