We use cookies which are pieces of data created and stored on your device when you use our online services. Find out more about the cookies we use, what they’re for and when they expire.
Necessary
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| TPR_COOKIE_CONSENT | This cookie saves your cookie preferences and consent. | 2 years |
| ai_user | This cookie enables us to count the number of users accessing the website over time. | 1 year |
| ai_session | This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie. | 1 day |
| ARRAffinity | Used for load balancing to make sure your page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. | On exit |
| .AspNetCore.Correlation | ||
| ASP.NET_SessionId | This is an anonymised cookie used to maintain your browsing session on the website and Exchange. | On exit |
| .AspNetCore.Session | An encrypted session cookie. Holds general information about a user’s browsing session. | On exit |
| .AspNet.Cookies | This cookie is used in the authentication process on the website and Exchange. It ensures only authorised users have access to our services. |
On exit |
| .AspNetCore.tprcookie | An encrypted cookie used in the authentication process on Exchange. | On exit |
| OpenIdConnect.nonce | This cookie is used in the authentication process on the website to make sure only authorised users have access to our services. | 15 minutes |
| idsrv |
This encrypted cookie is used in the authentication process to make sure only authorised users have access to our services. | On exit |
| idsrv.session | An encrypted session cookie. It holds authentication information about a user’s session. |
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| __RequestVerificationToken | Anti-forgery cookies designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to our site. | On exit |
| .AspNetCore.Antiforgery | ||
| MoodleSession | Identifies you as a user logged in to our elearning services. | On exit |
| cookieenabledcheck | Allows you to tick off completed tools in the end screen when using our elearning services. We also use this cookie to analyse how our site is performing so we can make improvements. | On exit |
| 4888_Pensions_Regulator_Toolkit_Survey_1 | Controls the frequency of how often you are shown a survey invite overlay when using our elearning services. | 90 days |
| PREF , NID, HSID , APISID, SID | We use google reCAPTCHA security on our 'find out your staging date' and 'nominate a contact' digital services to protect your security. | Indefinite |
| UMB_SESSION |
An Umbraco session cookie used on Exchange. Umbraco is a content management system. |
On exit |
Performance
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _utma | This is a google analytics cookie which keeps track of the number of times you have visited the site, and when your first and last visits were. | 2 years |
| _utmb | This is a google analytics cookie which works with the _utmc cookie to calculate how long your visit takes. | 30 minutes |
| _utmc | This is a google analytics cookie which works with the _utmb cookie to calculate how long your visit takes. | On exit |
| _utmz | This is a google analytics cookie which keeps track of how you came to our website, including what search engine you used, the link you clicked on, any keywords you used, and your location when you accessed the site. | 6 months |
| _ga | Used on our automatic enrolment transactional services to enable us to understand what activities you have completed. | 2 years |
| _ga | Used to distinguish users (Google Analytics 4). | 2 years |
| _ga_<container-id> | Used to persist session state. | 2 years |
| _gid | Used on our automatic enrolment transactional services to distinguish you from other users. | 1 day |
| _clck | Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site, on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 1 year |
| _clsk | Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. | 1 day |
| CLID | Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity. | 1 year |
| MUID | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year |
Functionality
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE | Used for Sitecore analytics, our website platform, to identify repeat visits by unique users. | 1 year |
| YouTube | YouTube stores a cookie through its iframe player to improve its data collection and help recommend related videos for you. | 30 days |
| di | AddThis allow you to share content via social networking websites and email. The content that you share can be tracked and analysed to provide insight and what communications you would prefer to receive from us. | 2 years |
| dt | 30 days | |
| loc | 30 days | |
| psc | 2 years | |
| ssh | 2 years | |
| uid | 2 years |
Targeting
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| DoubleClick | A cookie used to conduct targeted advertising campaigns. | 2 years |
| Appnexus | We use AppNexus to help us personlise digital display advertising so you receive communications from us that are most relevant to you. | 2 years |
| Drawbridge | We use Drawbridge to help us personalise digital display advertsing across different devices you use so you receive communications from us that are most relevant to you. | On exit |
| Google Floodlight |
We use Google Floodlight to help us personalise digital display advertising so you receive communications from us that are most relevant to you. | 30 days from last interaction |
| Amazon Pixel | We use Amazon Pixel to help us personalise digital display advertising so you receive communications most relevant to you. |
30 days from last interaction |
| Xandr Segment Pixel | We use Xandr Segment to help us personalise display advertising so you receive communications from us that are most relevant to you. | 30 days |
| This cookie allows us to measure the performance of our Facebook advertising and serve targeted adverts on the Facebook platform. | 90 days | |
| This cookie allows us to measure the performance of our Twitter advertising and serve targeted adverts on the Twitter platform. | 90 days | |
| This cookie allows us to measure the performance of our Instagram advertising and serve targeted adverts on the Instagram platform. | 90 days |