This cookie policy for our York Education Portal should be read in relation to our main cookie policy. It was last reviewed in November 2022.
This statement applies to part of our online services available via our website - our 'York Education Portal' provides high quality services to schools including:
- access to a wide range of knowledge and skills from trusted experts in a successful local authority
- access for school staff and governors who are registered users details of how to order traded services and access to information, news and downloadable resources
This functionality is provided by Hub4Leaders.
Cookies relating to the York Education Portal
| Cookie name | Lasts for | Purpose | Type of cookie | Is this cookie strictly necessary? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ai_user | 1 year | Associated with Microsoft Azure Application Insights (which collects statistical usage and telemetry information), this unique user identifier enables counting of the number of users accessing the application over time. | Tracking and performance | No |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | Browser session | A built-in feature of Windows Azure Cloud App to facilitate data management. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. | Performance and functionality | Yes |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Browser session | This cookie is necessary for the site to function normally and is held temporarily in memory and is automatically deleted when the web browser is closed. This cookie contains no personally identifiable information. | Functionality | Yes |
| ARRAffinity | Browser session | A built-in feature of Windows Azure Cloud App to facilitate data management. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. | Performance and functionality | Yes |
| ai_session | 1 hour | This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie. | Performance | No |
| _gid | 1 day | A unique value for each page visited, used to distinguish users. The ID is used to identify new and returning visitors for statistics and is anonymous. | Tracking and performance | No |
| _ga | 1 year, 1 month and 4 days | Unique ID for the browser session, used to distinguish users by assigning a randomly generated number as a 'client identifier'. the ID is used only for statistics and is anonymous. | Tracking and performance | No |
| personalization_id | 1 year and 1 month | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. | Third party, tracking and performance | No |
| guest_id | 11 months and 17 days | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. | Third party, tracking and performance | No |
| _gat | Browser session | Used to throttle the request rate, limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | Tracking and performance | No |
| guest_id_ads | 1 year and 6 days | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities available via the embedded social media widget. | Third party, tracking and performance | No |
| guest_id_marketing | 1 year and 6 days | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities available via the embedded social media widget. | Third party, tracking and performance | No |
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