Cookie policy
We (People’s Partnership Limited) use cookies on our websites to help give you the best experience we can.
If you’d like to remove or refuse cookies, you can learn how to below – see ‘What to do about unwanted cookies or adverts’. However, this may mean our website won’t work in the way you’d expect.
Warning: if you use your web browser settings to refuse all cookies, you won’t be able to log in to your Online Account with us.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (such as a computer or mobile phone) when you browse websites. Almost all websites use them. They help us to distinguish you from other visitors.
They also help us to customise our web pages by remembering your preferences, such as font size.
When you return to our websites, we use the information in the cookie to recognise your last session. This improves the quality of your
experience on our websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies to make our websites work as you’d expect. They also help us to:
- continually improve our websites
- improve speed and security of our websites
- remember your search settings during and between visits
- let you share pages with social networks like Facebook and add comments to our site
- make our marketing more efficient so you should only see advertising or promotions that are
relevant to you, eg via Google or Facebook.
We don’t use cookies to:
- collect any personally identifiable or sensitive information
- send personally identifiable data to third parties.
What type of cookies do we use?
B&CE
| Cookie type | Name | Where we use it | Why we use it and how long it lasts | Cookie category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Third-party cookie | __cf_bm | Used by Cloudflare’s Bot Management service. It helps to manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. Expires after 1 day. | Necessary | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-1PAPISID | Targeting cookie. Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant personalised Google advertising. Expires after 13 months. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-1PSID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. Expires after 13 months. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-1PSIDCC | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. Expires after 12 months. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-3PAPISID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. Expires after 13 months. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-3PSID | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. Expires after 13 months. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-3PSIDCC | Builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalised ads through retargeting. Expires after 12 months. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-ENID | Used to secure digitally signed and encrypted data from the unique Google ID. It also stores the most recent login time that Google uses to identify visitors, prevent fraudulent use of login data and to protect visitor data from unauthorised parties. This can also be used to show relevant and personalised advertising content. Expires after 12 months. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-YEC | YouTube | Used to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to protect advertisers and YouTube creator. Expires after 13 months. | Functional |
| Third-party cookie | __Secure-YNID | YouTube | Used to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to protect advertisers and YouTube creator. Expires after 13 months. | Functional |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_c | B&CE website | Stores user consent on use of session data use within replays (not masked vs. full masked). Expires after 13 months. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_cvars | B&CE website | Stores the URL-encoded custom variables from the session. Expires after Session length. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_debug | B&CE website | Enables/disables specific behaviour of the Tag for debugging purposes. Expires after each visit. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_ex | B&CE website | When set, the user is excluded from tracking. Expires after 30 days. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_id | B&CE website | Stores technical user data. Expires after 13 months. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_mk_aa | B&CE website | Ensures Adobe Analytics dimensions and eVars are set only once every 30 minutes. Expires after 30 minutes. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_mk_ga | B&CE website | Ensures Google Analytics dimensions and eVars are set only once every 30 minutes. Expires after 30 minutes. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_mk_pa | B&CE website | Ensures Piano Analytics dimensions and eVars are set only once every 30 minutes. Expires after 30 minutes. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_optout | B&CE website | When set, the user is opted-out from tracking. Expires after 13 months. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_root-domain | B&CE website | Stores the URI-encoded main domain name of the site. Expires Immediately. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_s | B&CE website | Stores Session Replay data. Expires after 30 minutes. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_same_site | B&CE website | Check if the browser supports the SameSite flag. Expires Immediately. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_t | B&CE website | Checks if the browser supports cookies and sets flags. Expires Immediately. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _cs_tld{nnnnnnnnnnnnn} | B&CE website | Cookies generated for Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics integrations which help determine the main domain on which to create integration cookies. Expires Immediately. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _fbp | _fbp summary cookie is used by Facebook to store and track visits across websites for marketing purposes. Expires after 90 days. | Marketing | |
| First-party cookie | _ga | Google Analytics | To identify unique users. Expires after 2 years. | Analytics |
| First-party cookie | _gcl_au | Google Adsense | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. Expires after 3 months. | Marketing |
| Third-party cookie | _hp2_hld | B&CE website | Used to determine which domain a cookie can be set on (since public suffix domains block setting cookies on the top level). Expires Immediately. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _hp5_event_props.ENV_ID | B&CE website | Event properties cookie. Expires after 13 months minus a day. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _hp5_let.ENV_ID | B&CE website | Contains last event timestamp. Expires after 13 months minus a day. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | _hp5_meta.ENV_ID | B&CE website | Contains all metadata related to user/session. Expires after 13 months minus a day. | Analytics |
| Third-party cookie | AEC | Used to ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user’s knowledge. Expires after 6 months. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | APISID | Stores the user’s preferences and other information. This includes the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page and the decision whether or not to activate Google’s SafeSearch filter. Expires after 13 months. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | Bcookie | Used by the social networking service, LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. Expires after 2 years. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | bscookie | Used by LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. Expires after 12 months. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | cky-action | B&CE website | The cookie is set by CookieYes to remember the user’s consent to the use of cookies on the website. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cky-consent | B&CE website | Used to remember the action taken by the user. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-advertisement | B&CE website | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Advertisement’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-analytics | B&CE website | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Analytics’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-functional | B&CE website | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Functional’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyesID | B&CE website | Used as a unique identifier for visitors according to their consent. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-necessary | B&CE website | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Necessary’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | cookieyes-other | B&CE website | Used to store users’ consent for cookies in the ‘Other’ category. Expires after 12 months. | Necessary |
| Third-party cookie | HSID | Stores the user’s preferences and other information. This includes the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page and the decision whether or not to activate Google’s SafeSearch filter. Expires after 13 months. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | JSESSIONID | used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. Session cookie. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | lang | Used to remember a user’s chosen language in their settings for LinkedIn.com. Expires at the end of the browser session. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | li_gc | Used to store guest consent for the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. Expires after 2 years. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | Lidc | LinkedIn Share button and advertising tags. Expires after 24 hours. | Marketing | |
| Third-party cookie | optimizelyEndUserId | B&CE website | Used to store a visitor’s unique Optimizely Experimentation identifier. This is a combination of a timestamp and a random number. No other information about you or your visitors is stored. Expires after 6 months. | Performance |
| Third-party cookie | SAPISID | peoplespension.co.uk | Stores certain preferences, for example the number of search results per page or activation of the SafeSearch Filter. Adjusts the ads that appear in Google Search. Expires after 13 months. | Functional |
| Third-party cookie | SEARCH_SAMESITE | Used to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and is essential for the security of web applications. Expires after 6 months. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | SID | Stores the user’s preferences and other information. This includes the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page and the decision whether or not to activate Google’s SafeSearch filter. Expires after 13 months. | Functional | |
| Third-party cookie | SIDCC | This cookie is for YouTube integration and/or analytics. Expires after 12 months. | Analytics | |
| Third-party cookie | SSID | Stores the user’s preferences and other information. This includes the preferred language, the number of search results to be displayed on the page and the decision whether or not to activate Google’s SafeSearch filter. Expires after 13 months. | Functional |
Additional information
First-party cookies
We set first-party cookies on behalf of the website you are visiting.
Third-party cookies
Third-party cookies collect and use anonymous information about your visits and interactions with our websites. We use third-party cookies to serve and personalise advertisements for our products and services. They also ensure we implement opt-outs made via the third party.
Necessary cookies
Cookies in this category are necessary for the site to function normally, so cannot be turned off.
Analytics cookies
These cookies are used to help us improve the performance of some or all pages on our website.
For instance, we use Google Analytics to look at how people navigate through our website and use this to make improvements.
Functional cookies
These cookies are used to enable certain functionality on our site such as personalisation.
Disabling may lead to a poorer browsing experience.
Marketing cookies
These cookies will be used to track your preferences and only show adverts relevant to your interests.
Social website cookies
So you can easily ‘Like’ or share our content on social networks (such as Facebook) we’ve included sharing buttons on our websites. These are set by ShareThis, AddThis and X (formerly known as Twitter).
The privacy implications will vary from social network to social network. They depend on the privacy settings you’ve chosen on these networks.
Anonymous visitor statistics cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics – such as how many people have visited our website, how long they spend on the site and what pages they look at.
We use Google Analytics to provide these statistics, which help us to continuously improve our website. They also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached our websites (for example from a search engine) and whether they’ve visited before.
You can opt out of Google Analytics by using Google’s opt-out tool.
What to do about unwanted cookies
Deleting cookies. Some web browsers allow you to delete cookies. If your browser allows this, you’ll be able to change your settings so that whenever you close your browser, it will delete any cookies that have been put on during that session of browsing.
Refusing cookies. Just remember that if you change your browser settings to refuse all cookies – in other words, websites won’t be able to put them on your device at all – you won’t be able to access your Online Account with us. If you’re worried about ‘spyware’, then rather than refusing all cookies, you may find you can use anti-spyware software to achieve the same goal by automatically deleting cookies it thinks are invasive.
Getting a warning about cookies. You can change your browser settings to warn you before cookies are used (and get the option of using them or not). You can do this by following the instructions in your browser. These are normally in the Help, Tools, or Edit menus.
How to stop unwanted adverts
Opting out of online adverts. To stop getting online interest-based advertisements from Facebook and other participating companies, visit the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance. You’ll need to opt-out separately with each browser you use.
Where to go for more information about cookies
Visit allaboutcookies.org
Or check out the Information Commissioner’s Office website.