Cookies
By accessing and using our website you agree to the terms of this policy and our privacy disclaimer. Please read this cookie policy carefully so you know what cookies are used. Sadly, we're not talking about biscuits. Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by websites. These files are either stored in the memory of your computer or device or are placed on the hard drive. Cookies are commonly used to help or personalise the user's browsing experience and provide information on how users interact with our site so we can make improvements.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.
Targeting Cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
Social Media Cookies
These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They can track your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.
Google-related Cookies
Find out more about Google's position on privacy regarding its analytics service here.
How to block/remove cookies
You can choose what types of cookies we use while you visit the website in the cookie settings here
You can find out more about cookies including how to disable/enable and delete them by visiting https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/
You can block most cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the storing of all or some cookies. However, please note that some features will then be unavailable when browsing our website.
Support
Should you have any queries relating to the use of cookies on this website please do not hesitate to contact us.
Name |
Description |
Lifespan |
Domian |
Category |
ASP.NET_SessionId |
General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. |
SESSION |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
CONSENT |
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
PERSISTENT |
google.com |
Targeting Cookies |
__insp_nv |
This cookie is set by Inspectlet and is used to record website and server performance with each visit to the site. The data is aggregated and analyzed; therefore, it remains anonymous upon use. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
disqus_unique |
To post comments and have your Disqus login information remembered across pages, cookies – specifically, first party (and in some browsers, third-party) cookies – must be enabled. |
PERSISTENT |
disqus.com |
Social Media Cookies |
_fbp |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Targeting Cookies |
OptanonAlertBoxClosed |
This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. |
PERSISTENT |
cdn.cookielaw.org |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
WWUStyleCookie |
This cookie is used to store the users colour contrast setting via the website accessibility tool |
SESSION |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Functional Cookies |
__insp_norec_sess |
This cookie is set by Inspectlet and is used to record website and server performance with each visit to the site. The data is aggregated and analyzed; therefore, it remains anonymous upon use. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
wwuMainFontResizer |
This cookie is set to record the users font size setting via the website accessibility tool |
SESSION |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Functional Cookies |
_gclxxxx |
Google conversion tracking cookie |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
alertPopUp |
We occasionally use an alert banner on the homepage to bring urgent information to your attention. |
SESSION |
ajax.aspnetcdn.com |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
__insp_dct |
This cookie is set by Inspectlet to store information regarding mouse position, clicks, scrolls, and highlighted elements and text. |
SESSION |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
alertPopUp |
We use an alert banner to bring urgent information to your attention. |
SESSION |
wwutilities.co.ukk |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
_fbp |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers |
PERSISTENT |
facebook.com |
Targeting Cookies |
OptanonAlertBoxClosed |
This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
_gid |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
__insp_targlpt |
This cookie is set by Inspectlet to store information regarding mouse position, clicks, scroLLs, and highlighted elements and text. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
__insp_targlpu |
This cookie is set by Inspectlet to store information regarding mouse position, clicks, scroLLs, and highlighted elements and text. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
CONSENT |
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
PERSISTENT |
youtube.com |
Targeting Cookies |
__cfduid |
This cookie is used to identify trusted web traffic. Inspectlet is used to track user behaviour. |
PERSISTENT |
inspectlet.com |
Performance Cookies |
IDE |
This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange |
PERSISTENT |
doubleclick.net |
Targeting Cookies |
_ga |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
OptanonConsent |
This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
__insp_slim |
This cookie is set by Inspectlet to store information regarding mouse position, clicks, scroLLs, and highlighted elements and text. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
_gat |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
sessionId |
To post comments and have your Disqus login information remembered across pages, cookies – specifically, first party (and in some browsers, third-party) cookies – must be enabled. |
PERSISTENT |
disqus.com |
Social Media Cookies |
disqusauths |
To post comments and have your Disqus login information remembered across pages, cookies – specifically, first party (and in some browsers, third-party) cookies – must be enabled. |
PERSISTENT |
disqus.com |
Social Media Cookies |
optimizelyRumLB |
Used by Optimizely to run A/B tests to enable us to understand the impacts of making changes to our website |
SESSION |
rum.optimizely.com |
Functional Cookies |
__insp_wid |
This cookie is set by Inspectlet and is used to record website and server performance with each visit to the site. The data is aggregated and analyzed; therefore, it remains anonymous upon use. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
optimizelyPendingLogEvents |
Cookie set by the Optimizely website optimisation plaftform. Records user activity. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
OptanonConsent |
This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
PERSISTENT |
cdn.cookielaw.org |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
YSC |
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
SESSION |
youtube.com |
Targeting Cookies |
CONSENT |
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
PERSISTENT |
youtube.com |
Targeting Cookies |
|
This domain is owned by Facebook, which is the world's largest social networking service. As a third party host provider, it mostly collects data on the interests of users via widgets such as the 'Like' button found on many websites. This is used to serve targeted advertising to its users when logged into its services. In 2014 it also started serving up behaviourally targeted advertising on other websites, similar to most dedicated online marketing companies. |
SESSION |
www.facebook.com |
Targeting Cookies |
AWSELB |
Used by Optimizely to run A/B tests to enable us to understand the impacts of making changes to our website |
SESSION |
rum.optimizely.com |
Functional Cookies |
Recite_Session |
This cookie is set by Recite Me to record accessibility settings |
SESSION |
api.reciteme.com |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
optimizelySegments |
This cookie is set by the Optimizely website optimisation plaftform. It holds audience segmentation information for a visitor. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
__jid |
To post comments and have your Disqus login information remembered across pages, cookies – specifically, first party (and in some browsers, third-party) cookies – must be enabled. |
PERSISTENT |
disqus.com |
Social Media Cookies |
optimizelyBuckets |
Cookie set by the Optimizely website optimisation plaftform. Used to store the page variants assigned to a user for A/B performance testing, to ensure the user gets a consistent experience |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
lang |
This cookie stores the users language selection |
SESSION |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
disqusauth |
To post comments and have your Disqus login information remembered across pages, cookies – specifically, first party (and in some browsers, third-party) cookies – must be enabled. |
PERSISTENT |
disqus.com |
Social Media Cookies |
GPS |
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
PERSISTENT |
youtube.com |
Targeting Cookies |
googtrans |
This cookie stores the users language selection and allows them to view the website in their chosen language |
SESSION |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
optimizelyPPID |
Optimizely cookies are used to compare two versions of the same website page, allowing to improve the websites performance. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.ukk |
Performance Cookies |
fr |
Contains browser and user unique ID combination, used for targeted advertising. |
PERSISTENT |
facebook.com |
Targeting Cookies |
test_cookie |
This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange |
PERSISTENT |
doubleclick.net |
Targeting Cookies |
_ga |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. |
PERSISTENT |
google.com |
Performance Cookies |
optimizelyEndUserId |
Cookie set by the Optimizely website optimisation plaftform. This cookie is a unique user identifier |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.ukk |
Performance Cookies |
eupubconsent |
This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
PERSISTENT |
cdn.cookielaw.org |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos |
PERSISTENT |
youtube.com |
Targeting Cookies |
_gclxxxx |
Google conversion tracking cookie |
PERSISTENT |
google.com |
Performance Cookies |
__cfduid |
This host is used by OneTrust for hosting the Cookie Consent tool script. It is used to manage cookies on websites. |
PERSISTENT |
cookielaw.org |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
vuid |
This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing |
PERSISTENT |
vimeo.com |
Functional Cookies |
__insp_uid |
This cookie is used to enable user to share pages through third party social networking websites. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Functional Cookies |
__insp_sid |
This cookie is set by Inspectlet and is used to record website and server performance with each visit to the site. The data is aggregated and analyzed; therefore, it remains anonymous upon use. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
_gat_UA- |
This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
__insp_pad |
This cookie is set by Inspectlet and is used to record website and server performance with each visit to the site. The data is aggregated and analyzed; therefore, it remains anonymous upon use. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Performance Cookies |
_RequestVerificationToken |
This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. |
SESSION |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Strictly Necessary Cookies |
icu |
This domain is owned by AppNexus Inc. The company provides a range of online advertising technology and services. |
PERSISTENT |
adnxs.com |
Targeting Cookies |
_gcl_au |
This is a cookie for "Conversion Linker" functionality - it takes information in ad clicks and stores it in a first-party cookie so that conversions can be attributed outside the landing page. |
PERSISTENT |
wwutilities.co.uk |
Targeting Cookies |
NID |
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
PERSISTENT |
google.com |
Targeting Cookies |
uuid2 |
This domain is owned by AppNexus Inc. The company provides a range of online advertising technology and services. |
PERSISTENT |
adnxs.com |
Targeting Cookies |
CONSENT |
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
PERSISTENT |
google.com |
Targeting Cookies |