Trials@Home uses cookies to improve the experience for visitors to our websites, including websites that can be accessed through our mobile applications, and has published this Cookie Policy. It explains what cookies are and how we use them on our websites.
Updated: 12 October 2021
Cookies are tiny files, composed of a string of letters and numbers, placed on your computer by web page servers. They enable the website owner to distinguish you from other users of the website. Cookies cannot be executed as code or used to deliver viruses and they cannot enable us to access your hard drive. We cannot read any information on your hard drive even if we store cookies there.
The data generated through cookies on Trials@Home websites can be used for various purposes including the following:
Strictly necessary
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website and saving items to a shopping basket.
Performance
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often and if they receive error messages. They are used to improve how a website works in future versions.
Targeting
These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.
Functionality
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make such as user name, language or region you are in and provide a more enhanced personal experience.
Trials@Home is required by law to obtain your consent for all types of cookies that we place other than those that are “strictly necessary”.
How to turn off Cookies
If you don’t accept the use of these cookies, or change your mind, you can disable them by:
1. Clicking on ‘Cookie settings’ which can be found at the bottom of each page
or
2. Changing your browser and/or mobile device settings so that cookies from this website cannot be placed on your computer or mobile device.
You can learn more about how to manage your cookies by visiting the Help function of your browser, the settings of your mobile device or you can visit www.aboutcookies.org which provides detailed information on managing cookies on popular browsers. Please be aware that parts of our websites may not function correctly if you disable cookies.
Cookies used on this website are as follows:
| Name | Description | Category | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| __CookieConsentV300 | __CookieConsentV300 cookie is a plugin used to help you comply with EU guideline. | Strictly necessary | 90 days |
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | Performance cookies (optional) | 2 years |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | Performance cookies (optional) | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. | Performance cookies (optional) | 1 minute |
| _ga_HB6XM1T37F | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. 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. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners._ga | Performance cookies (optional) | 1 minute |
| _gat_UA-nnnnnnn-nn | This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. | Performance cookies (optional) | Removed after session with server closes |
| AWSALB | Classic AWS load balancer first receives a request from a client, it routes the request to a target, generates a cookie named AWSALB that encodes information about the selected target, encrypts the cookie, and includes the cookie in the response to the client. | Strictly necessary | 7 days |
| AWSELBCORS |
AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie. Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. Same value as AWSELB |
Strictly necessary | Removed after session with server closes |
| ak_bmsc |
This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. |
Strictly necessary | End of browser session |
| bm_sv |
This cookie is associated with Akamai and is used to differentiate between traffic from humans and bots. |
Strictly necessary | End of browser session |
| __cf_bm |
The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie |
Strictly necessary | End of browser session |
| bm_mi |
This cookie is associated with Akamai. It is used to analyse traffic to determine if it is automated traffic generated by bots or a human user. |
Strictly necessary | End of browser session |
| MR |
This is a Microsoft MSN 1st party cookie which we use to measure the use of the website for internal analytics. |
Performance cookies (optional) | End of browser session |
| MUID |
This cookie is widely used my Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded microsoft scripts. Widely believed to sync across many different Microsoft domains, allowing user tracking. |
Targeting Cookies | End of browser session |
| _uetsid |
This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. |
Targeting Cookies | End of browser session |
| _fbp |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
Targeting Cookies | End of browser session |