What cookies Mortgage Advice Bureau use and why

Cookies are small text files, which often include a unique identifier that is sent by a web server to your computer, mobile phone or any other internet enabled device (“device”) when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work efficiently and help provide us with business and marketing information to enable us to make informed decisions on the development of our websites.

We use the following types of cookies:

  • Essential - Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
  • Performance - Performance cookies help owners understand how the website is used by visitors. This information can then be used to improve the way the website works.
  • Preference - Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
  • Statistics - Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
  • Marketing - Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.

 

Name

Description

Purpose

Type

.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.#

Used to help prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.

Essential

Session

.AspNetCore.Mvc.CookieTemp

Used to preserve the visitor's session state across page requests.

Essential

Session

_cf_bm

Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website to make valid reports on the use of their website.

Essential

1 day

_grecaptcha

Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.

Essential

Persistent

_GRECAPTCHA

 

Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.

Essential

179 days

ARRAffinity

Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.

Essential

Session

ARRAffinitySameSite

Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.

Essential

Session

ASP.NET_SessionId

 

Used to preserve the visitor's session state across page requests

Essential

Session

AWSALB

Used to register which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.

Essential

7 days

AWSALBCORS

Used to register which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.

Essential

7 days

AWSALBTG

Used to register which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.

Essential

7 days

AWSALBTGCORS

Used to register which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.

Essential

6 days

AWSELBCORS

Used to register which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.

Essential

Session

CONSENT

Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.

Essential

2 years

CookieConsent

Used to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain

Essential

1 year

optimizelyRumLB

Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.

Essential

Session

FontsLoaded

Used to keep track of special fonts used on the website for internal analysis. The cookie does not register any visitor data.

Essential

Session

rc::a

Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.

Essential

Persistent

rc::b

Used to distinguish between humans and bots.

Essential

Session

rc::c

Used to distinguish between humans and bots.

Essential

Session

rc::f

Used to distinguish between humans and bots.

Essential

Persistent

UMB_SESSION

Used to store the domain prefix to determine whether it holds https or http URL properties.

Essential

Session

_yfpc

Used as a website search tool

Essential

3 months

shadowId

Used as a web version of an Affordability Calculator tool.

Essential

Persistent

cookieId

Used to assign a specific ID to the visitor. This allows the website to determine the number of specific user-visits for analysis and statistics.

Statistics

3 months

https://#_oeu#.#$$event_queue

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Statistics

Persistent

https://#_oeu#.#$$layer_states

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Statistics

Persistent

https://#_oeu#.#$$session_state

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Statistics

Persistent

https://#_oeu#.#$$tracker_optimizely

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Statistics

Persistent

https://#_oeu#.#$$variation_map

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Statistics

Persistent

https://#_oeu#.#$$visitor_profile

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Statistics

Persistent

https://www.mortgageadvicebureau.com_pending_events

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Statistics

Persistent

optimizely_data$$pending_events

Used to make split-tests on the website, which optimizes the website's relevance towards the visitor – the cookie can also be set to improve the visitor's experience on a website.

Statistics

Persistent

optimizelyEndUserId

Used to measure how selected users react to targeted changes to the website's content and functionality, in order to determine what variation is most efficacious in terms of converting users to customers.

Statistics

179 days

vuid

Used to collect data on the user's visits to the website, such as which pages have been read.

Statistics

399 days

optimizely_data$$#$$event_queue

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Marketing

Persistent

optimizely_data$$#$$events

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Marketing

Persistent

optimizely_data$$#$$layer_states

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Marketing

Persistent

optimizely_data$$#$$session_state

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Marketing

Persistent

optimizely_data$$#$$tracker_optimizely

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Marketing

Persistent

optimizely_data$$#$$variation_map

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Marketing

Persistent

optimizely_data$$#$$visitor_profile

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Marketing

Persistent

optimizelyDomainTestCookie

Used as an A/B testing tool to test user-responses

Marketing

Persistent

optimizelyDomainTestCookie

Used to track the conversion rate between the user and the advertisement banners on the website - This serves to optimise the relevance of the advertisements on the website.

Marketing

179 days

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Used to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

Marketing

179 days

YSC

Used by YouTube to log statistics on what YouTube videos the user has seen

Marketing

Session

ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY

Used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Marketing

Persistent

yt-remote-cast-available

Used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Marketing

Session

yt-remote-cast-installed

Used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Marketing

Session

yt-remote-connected-devices

Used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Marketing

Persistent

yt-remote-device-id

Used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Marketing

Persistent

yt-remote-fast-check-period

Used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Marketing

Session

yt-remote-session-app

Used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Marketing

Session

yt-remote-session-name

Used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Marketing

Session

 

 

How to withdraw consent to, control and/or delete cookies

It is possible to remove cookies or block them from recording this information. You also have the option of blocking third party cookies only.

This option is generally found within the Options menu then Privacy section of your particular browser. Each browser is slightly different and constantly updating.

For more information consult the Help menu of your browser. The links below provide information on *how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website..

 

This information has been provided to show our commitment to legislation regarding cookie awareness so that you can understand what cookies we use and why we use them. This ensures transparency in the data collected on you.

Further information

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/guidance-on-the-use-of-cookies-and-similar-technologies/

http://www.allaboutcookies.org

 

This policy was last updated 19th July 2023