What are Cookies?
Cookies are small files which are placed on your computer or device when you visit a website. Information stored in the cookie can then be retrieved to notify the website (and only that website) of your previous activity or preferences whenever you visit that website again. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide you with a better experience.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your user experience. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer or mobile device you are using via a randomly generated identifying tag.
To make full use of prioritybooker.com, you will need to accept the use of cookies. The cookies used on prioritybooker.com have been categorised based on the categories defined in the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) UK Cookie guide published in November 2012.
The following is a list of the types of cookie we use:
If you'd like to restrict, block or delete cookies, you can do this by altering the settings on your internet browser. By managing your cookies you can decide whether you want to prevent cookies from being accepted, clear the cookies currently held on your computer or device, and depending on the browser, receive an alert when a website tries to place a cookie on your browser. Some cookies are needed to ensure the effectiveness and usability of a website, and as such it may not be possible to disable them independently, in which case you’ll need to agree to accept these cookies to continue using the site.
You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them at https://www.allaboutcookies.org, or by referring to the ‘help’ section on your browser.
The table below details the most frequently used cookies on prioritybooker.com and explains their use.
Cookie | Expiration time | What they do |
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Google Analytics _ga _gid AMP_TOKEN _gac _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz |
2 years 24 hours 30 seconds to 1 year 90 days 2 years 30 minutes Session 6 months |
These are used to collect information about how visitors use a website, without personally identifying individual visitors. Information is used to help improve the usability and effectiveness of a site. They provide information including the number of visitors to the site, the number of unique users across browsing sessions, and information on where visitors have come from and the pages they have visited. |
_PHPSESSID | Session | This is a browser session cookie and identifies the visitor across their session. |
XSRF-TOKEN | Session | This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. |
prioritybooker_session | Session | This is used to hold information about your current visit with us. This cookie is essential to the security and functionality of the website. |
referer | 1 day | This is used to hold information about your current visit with us. This cookie is essential to the security and functionality of the website. |
_hjSessionUser_{site_id} | Session | Hotjar is a product insights tool that gives an understanding of user behaviour on a website that analytics tools can't track. |