Cookie Policy

This page outlines the cookie policy for the BBSRC Portfolio Analyser service. Your use of this service is subject to our terms and conditions.

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. 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.

Cookies are used to improve services for you, for example by:

• temporarily recording your search/filter choices so results can be returned on subsequent pages.
• measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and that there is enough capacity to ensure they are fast.

You can learn about cookies and how to manage them yourself on the All About Cookies website.

Cookies used on our website

Cookie Control panel

CookieControl
Purpose: to hold setting on whether to allow cookies to be stored or not
Expires: 10 days

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics. It installs cookies to help us identify errors and accurately estimate visitor numbers. These cookies do not collect personal data about visitors to our website.

_ga
Purpose: used to distinguish users
Expires: two years

_gat
Purpose: used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites
Expires: one minute

_gid
Purpose: used to distinguish users
Expires: 24 hours

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the service to operate and are always used.

ASP.NET_SessionId
Purpose: temporarily record your search/filter choices so results can be returned on subsequent pages.
Expires: on closing browser