This site and our EO Hub site, like many other sites, uses small text files called cookies to help customise your experience. Cookies are placed on your computer by websites you visit and are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The information below explains the cookies we use and how you can manage them.
What are cookies?
'Cookies' are small text files that are stored by the browser (e.g. Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari) or by a mobile phone (e.g. Android or iPhone) on your computer or mobile device. They allow websites to store such things as user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a "memory" for the Website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately.
How do we use cookies?
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the tables below.
Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website and EO Hub and cannot be switched off. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website and EO Hub, or use a shopping cart.
Cookie name |
Location |
Purpose |
Duration |
__RequestVerificationToken |
EOA Website |
This cookie is essential for our site to stop cross-site request forgery. |
Session |
login |
EOA Website
|
This cookie stores your authentication status after login. |
Session |
ASP.NET_SessionId
|
EOA Website
|
This cookie stores additional information about your authentication status |
Session |
Asi.Web.Browser.CookiesEnabled |
EOA Website
|
This cookie stores a value indicating whether or not your browser allows cookies. |
Session |
cookieconsent_status |
EOA Website
|
This cookie stores your response when you choose to accept or reject cookies. |
12 months |
AnonymousCartId |
EOA Website
|
This cookie stores cart information when you choose to add an item to the cart before logging in. |
14 days |
ASP.NET_SessionID |
EO Hub |
Issued by Microsoft's ASP.NET application, this cookie stores session data during a user's website visit. |
Session |
AWSALBCORS |
EO Hub |
Amazon Web Services sets this cookie for load balancing. |
Session |
Analytical/performance cookies
These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. When you reject cookies on our site these cookies will not be placed.
We use Google Analytics to collect anonymised data about users in order to help us improve our website. These cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors, where the visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. You may also choose to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics cookies across all websites.
Cookie name |
Location |
Purpose |
Duration |
_ga |
EOA Website |
Google Analytics. Used to distinguish users. |
Session |
_gid |
EOA Website |
Google Analytics. Used to distinguish users. |
Session |
_gat |
EOA Website |
Google Analytics. Used to throttle request rate. |
Session |
AMP_TOKEN |
EOA Website |
Google Analytics. Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. |
Session |
_gac_<423410039> |
EOA Website |
Google Analytics. Contains campaign related information for the user. |
Session |
_utma |
EOA Website |
Unique site visitor id |
Persistent |
_utmc |
EOA Website |
Session tracking id |
Session |
_utmz |
EOA Website |
Referral information |
Persistent |
AWSALB |
EO Hub |
This is an application load balancer cookie set by Amazon Web Services to map the session to the target. |
Session |
Third-party cookies
Our Website may contain links to other third party websites or technologies that may place additional cookies that are out of our control and not covered by this cookie policy. These third-parties may set cookies on your computer once you click on the link or video player. Please read the Privacy Policy for each of these sites to learn more.
Google (including YouTube and Google Maps)
Higher Logic (EO Hub)
LinkedIn
Mailchimp
X
Vimeo
Zoom
Managing Your Cookies
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
You can also opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites.