Cookies
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What are cookies?
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Changing your cookie preferences
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Here is a list of the cookies we use on both our main website (homeenergyscotland.org) and our advice hub (homeenergyscotland-advice.est.org.uk) and what they do:
| Cookie | Name | Description | Classification | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookie preference | udcbar udcstorage |
We use browser local storage to remember a user's choice about cookies on our website. If you have previously indicated a preference, that will be stored in this item. | Essential – Strictly necessary cookie | N/A |
| Vimeo | PREF* VSC* VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE* remote_sid* |
Anonymous third-party cookies that allow the viewing of embedded Vimeo videos | Essential – Functional cookie | The longest lasting cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website. |
| YouTube | player Vuid |
These third-party cookies are saved to your device to allow us to embed YouTube videos. | Essential – Functional cookie | The cookie expires 1 year after your last visit to the website. |
| Google Analytics (GA) | _ga _gcl_au |
We use Google Analytics which collects data about how visitors use the site. You cannot be identified from the data that is collected. We use this software to help us understand how the site is used, for example how people found the site, how many people visited particular pages and how long people stay on our site. This helps us to make sure the site is meeting people's needs and to inform improvements that we make. | Optional – Performance cookie | The longest lasting cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website. |
| Facebook Pixel | _fbp _fbc |
The Meta pixel is used to help us to learn what you’re interested in so we can deliver ads on Facebook and Instagram which are relevant to you. It also limits the number of times that you see an ad and help us measure the effectiveness of our marketing. | Optional - advertising cookie | The cookie expires 90 days after your last visit to the website. |
| Microsoft Clarity | _clck _clsk _clid _sm |
We use Microsoft Clarity which collects data about how visitors use the site. You cannot be identified by the data that is collected. We use this software to help us understand how the site is used, for example, to see where people click, what they ignore and how far they scroll down a page. This helps us to make sure the site is meeting people’s needs and to inform the improvements that we make. | Optional - performance cookie | The cookie expires 1 year after your last visit to the website. |
| TikTok | _tt_enable_cookie _ttp cookie description |
These cookies are both associated with TikTok and are used to track user activity on the website, mainly to optimise advertising by collecting data on user interactions, allowing for personalised advertising to be delivered and advertising campaigns to be measured which helps TikTok tailor the user experience based on a user's browsing behaviour. | Optional - advertising cookies | These cookies expire 13 months after your last visit to the website. |
| Microsoft | _uetvid | This cookie is used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertising based on the visitor's preferences. | Optional - performance cookie | The cookie expires 1 year after your last visit to the website. |
| li_mc li_sugr |
These cookies are both associated with LinkedIn and are used as a temporary cache to avoid database lookups for a member's consent for use of non-essential cookies and to collect data on user behaviour and interaction to optimise the website and make advertising more more relevant to the user. | Optional - performance cookies | These cookies expire 6 months after your last visit to the website. | |
| liap lms_analytics |
These are both cookies set by LinkedIn. "liap" indicates whether a user is logged in or not on non-www domains, while "lms_analytics" is specifically used to identify members for analytics purposes, allowing them to track user behaviour on their platform to analyse data. | Optional - performance cookies | These cookies expire 1 year after your last visit to the website. | |
| Adobe Analytics | gpv_pn | This cookie is a session cookie - a temporary file that stores information about a user's activity on a website during a single browsing session - that stores the previous page a user visited on a website. It's used by Adobe Analytics to track the journeys taken on a website and to and improve website performance. | Optional - performance cookie | This cookie expires 30 minutes after your last visit to the website. |
| Search preferences | SEARCH_SAMESITE | This cookie prevents your browser from sending cookie information stored on our site to other third-party sites. The aim is to protect your information and to protect against forgery attacks. | Essential - Strictly necessary cookie | This cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website. |
| Security cookies | SIDCC | This cookie is a security cookie set by Google to identify trusted web traffic and protect user data. It may be set when you click on a YouTube video player. | Essential - Strictly necessary cookie | This cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website. |
| Google ReCAPTCHA | SSID | This cookie is a small piece of data set by the Google reCAPTCHA service on a website to help identify potential bot activity and to protect against spam attacks by tracking user interactions and identifying suspicious patterns, ensuring that the user interacting with the website is a real person and not an automated bot. | Essential - Strictly necessary cookie | This cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website. |
| CloudFlare | __cf_bm | Cloudflare places this cookie on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. This cookie is necessary for these bot solutions to function properly. | Essential - Strictly necessary cookie | This cookie expires 30 minutes after your last visit to the website. |
| Twitter (X) | muc_ads personalization_id |
These Twitter (X) pixel cookies help us to learn what you’re interested in so we can deliver ads on Twitter (X) which are relevant to you. They also limit the number of times that you see an ad and help us measure the effectiveness of our marketing. | Optional - advertising cookies | These cookies expire 400 days after your last visit to the website. |
| Hotjar | _hjSessionUser _hjSession_ |
These cookies are set by Hotjar, a website tool that helps businesses understand how users interact with their websites. These are tracking cookies that assign a unique identification to a visitor when they first land on our website, ensuring that all their subsequent interactions on that site are attributed to the same user, and allowing for comprehensive data collection and analysis of behavior across multiple visits. | Optional - performance cookie | These cookies expire 365 days after your last visit to the website. |
| AppNexus | anj uuid2 |
AppNexus is a digital advertising platform that we use to buy, sell, and deliver online advertising, including interest-based advertising. These cookies are set by AppNexus and record information that helps to differentiate between devices and browsers. This information is used to pick out ads delivered by the platform and assess the ad performance. | Optional - advertising cookie | These cookies expire 90 days after your last visit to the website. |
| Azure | ASLBSA ASLBSACORS |
These cookies help identify different users even if they share the same IP address, allowing for a more even distribution of traffic. | Essential - Strictly necessary cookies | These cookies expire after your last website session. |
| Cookie |
|---|
| Cookie preference |
| Name |
| udcbar udcstorage |
| Description |
| We use browser local storage to remember a user's choice about cookies on our website. If you have previously indicated a preference, that will be stored in this item. |
| Classification |
| Essential – Strictly necessary cookie |
| Expiry |
| N/A |
| Cookie |
|---|
| Vimeo |
| Name |
| PREF* VSC* VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE* remote_sid* |
| Description |
| Anonymous third-party cookies that allow the viewing of embedded Vimeo videos |
| Classification |
| Essential – Functional cookie |
| Expiry |
| The longest lasting cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website. |
| Cookie |
|---|
| YouTube |
| Name |
| player Vuid |
| Description |
| These third-party cookies are saved to your device to allow us to embed YouTube videos. |
| Classification |
| Essential – Functional cookie |
| Expiry |
| The cookie expires 1 year after your last visit to the website. |
| Cookie |
|---|
| Google Analytics (GA) |
| Name |
| _ga _gali _gat _gid |
| Description |
| We use Google Analytics which collects data about how visitors use the site. You cannot be identified from the data that is collected. We use this software to help us understand how the site is used, for example how people found the site, how many people visited particular pages and how long people stay on our site. This helps us to make sure the site is meeting people's needs and to inform improvements that we make. |
| Classification |
| Optional – Performance cookie |
| Expiry |
| The longest lasting cookie expires 2 years after your last visit to the website. |
| Cookie |
|---|
| Facebook Pixel |
| Name |
| _fbp _fbc |
| Description |
| The Meta pixel is used to help us to learn what you’re interested in so we can deliver ads on Facebook and Instagram which are relevant to you. It also limits the number of times that you see an ad and help us measure the effectiveness of our marketing. |
| Classification |
| Optional – advertising cookie |
| Expiry |
| The cookie expires 90 days after your last visit to the website. |
| Cookie |
|---|
| Microsoft Clarity |
| Name |
| _clck _clsk _clid _sm |
| Description |
| We use Microsoft Clarity which collects data about how visitors use the site. You cannot be identified by the data that is collected. We use this software to help us understand how the site is used, for example, to see where people click, what they ignore and how far they scroll down a page. This helps us to make sure the site is meeting people’s needs and to inform the improvements that we make. |
| Classification |
| Optional – Performance cookie |
| Expiry |
| The cookie expires 1 year after your last visit to the website. |
Changes to our cookie information
We regularly review our cookie information to keep it up to date. Any changes that we make will be posted on our website.
This cookie policy was last updated on 7 March 2025.