ATG Apprenticeships Cookies

Cookies are 'local storage file' and are used to help websites function and enhance a users experience as well as in some cases collect data about a visitor's activity on a website. By themselves web pages cannot hold and pass information easily. Cookies help overcome this. They are small text files that are created on a visitor’s computer to store information that aids the running of the website. Cookies come in many guises including:

• Session: Any first-party cookie with no expiry time, or more specifically any first-party cookie set to expire when the web browser is closed. First-party cookies are those with a domain name that matches the domain or any sub domain(s) of the actual site being analysed.
  1. Often this is essential data storage such as a user being able to login to the website account and move around the website whilst being kept logged in or being able to add items to their basket and consequently pay and complete a transaction. These cookies are temporary and when a browser is closed then they are removed
• Persistent Cookies: Any first-party cookie with a fixed expiry time in the future.
  1. Used for 'Remember Me' and functionality that work between browser sessions. Services such as Google Analytics will use cookies to record page hits, referrals and track a visitor’s activity on a particular website
• Third-party: Any third-party cookie regardless of expiry time. Third-party cookies are those with a domain name that differs completely from the domain of the actual site being analysed
  1. These cookies can also be used by social networking websites such as Facebook or Twitter. If social bookmarking links are used on a website then Facebook and Twitter will use cookie to enhance a visitor's interaction with these services. Google Analytics is also considered a third party cookie.

Cookies we use on ATG Apprenticeships

Below we list a breakdown of the cookies we use on this website and their purpose. Our usage of cookies is completely legitimate and we don’t collect any data for the purposes of cross website advertising.

Core Website Cookies (Session)

Name	Cookie Type	Information
user_info	Ecommerce Session	Required to allow preserved login session for Members area. The session used on this website is preserved for an extended period of time to allow users to effectively apply for apprenticeship vacancies. This is currently set to 24 hours. To clear this session before the expiry then visitor is required to log out of account area.
PHPSESSID	Ecommerce Session	Required to allow user effectively apply for apprenticeships. These sessions are automatically deleted when a visitor closes the browser.
disable_third_party_cookies	Disable cookie banner	Set so that cookie banner disappears if user clicks 'Don't show again'

Third Party Cookies

Tracking Cookies

Name	Cookie Type	Information
__utma	Google Analytics	Logs user activity on websites
__utmc	Google Analytics	Logs user activity on websites
__utmz	Google Analytics	Logs user activity on websites
NID	google.co.uk	Unique identifiers given to each computer to allow traffic analysis to Google Maps.
PREF	Google Analytics	Unique identifiers given to each computer to allow traffic analysis to Google Maps.

Removing Cookies

Each browser will give you information on how to change you cookie settings. Usually this can be found in the browsers 'Help' menu.

You can delete cookies stored in your browser. How to do this varies from browser to browser. Usually referred to as clearing cookies this will usually only clear cookies per browsing session. For more information on cookie control please see aboutcookies.org