The AFBI site and some of the tools and services it links to use a number of cookies. These cookies are listed below with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.
Measuring website usage
We use Webtrends to collect information about how people use the AFBI Website. We do this to make sure it’s meeting people's needs and to understand how we could meet those needs better.
Webtrends store information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal details such as your name or address. We cannot identify who you are.
We do not allow Webtrends to use or share any information we collect with other third parties.
Webtrends
| WT_FPC |
randomly generated number including your anonymised public IP address |
2 years |
Cookies for maintaining your session
Many of these tools and services that AFBI links to require cookies to provide a joined-up session. These type of cookies may help you complete online forms without having to re-enter information already provided.
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
randomly generated number |
when you close your browser |
| ASPSESSIONIDxxxxxxxx |
randomly generated number |
when you close your browser |
| BGSESSIONID |
randomly generated number |
when you close your browser |
| PHPSESSID |
randomly generated number |
when you close your browser |
| JSESSIONID |
randomly generated number |
when you close your browser |
Remembering your settings
AFBI uses cookies to remember if you have received the cookie warning message so that this message doesn't appear more than once.
| afbi_cookie_support |
true |
when you close your browser |
| afbi_cookie_warning_received |
true |
2 years |
'Third-party' cookies
Third-party cookies are cookies created by a website other than the one you are currently visiting. AFBI currently embeds services from third party websites to provide extra functionality.
Google Maps
AFBI uses Google Maps to provide visual geo-location information on various government organisations and services.
| khcookie |
randomly generated number |
when you close your browser |
| NID |
randomly generated number |
6 months |
| PREF |
randomly generated number |
2 years |
| SNID |
randomly generated number |
6 months |
YouTube
AFBI embeds videos from our YouTube using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set the following cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
randomly generated number |
7 months |
| use_hitbox |
unique identifier to increment the video views counter on the YouTube site |
when you close your browser |
| PREF |
f1=50000000&fv=11.2.202 |
10 years |
