Cookies Policy

Name

Purpose

Expires

ARRAffinity

ARRAffinity cookie is set by Azure app service, and allows the service to choose the right instance established by a user to deliver subsequent requests made by that user.

End of session

ARRAffinitySameSite

This cookie is set by Windows Azure cloud, and is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session.

End of session

__8x8Chat-script_40342640965241879440ec0.57288805

This cookie is created by the 8x8 WebChat system. It stores identifiers and configuration references used to load the correct chat widget, including tenant, channel, domain and script UUID values.

Never

WPJ_CM

This cookie is created by the 8x8 WebChat system.

End of session

AI_buffer

A Microsoft Azure Application Insights cookie that stores queued telemetry events when network conditions are poor, ensuring data is transmitted once connectivity is restored.

End of session

AI_sentBuffer

Another Azure Application Insights cookie, used to track telemetry events that have already been sent so duplicates are avoided during retry attempts.

End of session

_grecaptcha

to provide spam protection for web forms

6 months

.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.cdV5uW_Ejgc

Anti-forgery token for secure backoffice actions.

End of session

.AspNetCore.Mvc.CookieTempDataProvider

Stores temporary data between HTTP requests.

End of session

CookieControl

This cookie is used to remember your choice about cookies on redkitehousing.org.uk.

90 days

OptanonAlertBoxClosed

This enables the website not to show the cookie control message more than once to a user.

1 year

OptanonConsent

This stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category.

1 year

Name

Purpose

Expires

umbracoEngageAnalyticsVisitorId

This cookie allows for relating different page visits or sessions to the same visitor.

1 year

ai_session

This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie set by Microsoft Application Insights software to gather statistical usage and telemetry data for apps built on the Azure cloud platform.

1 hour

_hjSession_*

Used by Hotjar to hold current session data.

1 hour

Name

Purpose

Expires

ai_user

Microsoft Azure sets this cookie as a unique user identifier cookie, enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time.

1 year

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Set by YouTube and used for various purposes, including analytical and advertising.

6 months

VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA

Used by YouTube to store the user’s privacy and consent settings for embedded videos. It helps ensure that user privacy choices (like consent for personalized ads or tracking) are respected when watching embedded YouTube content.

90 days

Example cookies

Purpose

Expires

AEC

APISID

HSID

LOGIN_INFO

NID

OTZ

PREF

SAPISID

SID*

SSID

SOCS

_Secure*

YSC

ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY

yt-icons-last-purged

We embed videos from our YouTube channel. If you visit a page containing a YouTube video and are logged in to a YouTube or Google account, Google may use cookies for security purposes, to remember your preferences, and to receive information about the videos you watch for analytics and advertising purposes. For more information, see the Google Privacy Policy.

Between 180 and 400 days