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1. What are cookies?Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
We use essential cookies to make our site work. We'd also like to set up optional cookies as explained in section 2. These will only be set up if you accept.
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2. Use of cookies by CIRAS
The parent company of CIRAS is Rail Safety and Standards Board Limited (RSSB).
We use both essential and optional analytical cookies. You are able to select whether you are comfortable to allow these analytical cookies.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon. You can find this at the bottom left of the webpage.
First-party cookies are those that we set directly from RSSB’s websites; third party cookies are cookies that are loaded because of the way we integrate tools and content from other websites. We use both of these types of cookies to run and help improve our websites. For detailed information about the cookies we use please refer to the table below:
Essential cookies
These cookies support use of the different parts of the RSSB websites. Without them, the services that you’ve asked for can’t be provided.
Cookie examples
Purpose Expiry ASP.NET SessionID
ASP.NET_SessionId
To enable our websites to work. e.g. displaying web pages.
To enable features that users have specifically asked for.
To sign you into an RSSB website and to manage your access privileges.
To monitor that the access to, and use of RSSB services and products is in line with relevant licence conditions and appropriate use.
To enable a service to recognise your computer so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task.
To recognise that you have already logged in, so you don't need to do it for every web page requested.
To remember your preferences.
On session expiry Civic Cookie control To allow you to control and manage your cookie preferences. On Session Expiry Analytical Cookies
These cookies are optional and allow us to collate and analyse data and your use of the websites. The purpose of collecting this information is to allow us to improve the services we provide.
We also use cookies that identify you, which further helps us understand how people are using our websites. These cookies may include geolocation data, based on your IP address, but this does not provide your exact location.
In the table below please see the details of the individual cookies we use and how they work.
Cookie examples
Purpose Expiry Google analytics
_gid,
_ga
Google's cookies policy.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit here.We analyse anonymous data to help us understand how people interact with our services so we can make them better. e.g, we identify areas in higher demand analyse data to help us understand how people are using the websites.
Between 1 minute to 2 years. Sitecore Analytics Cookies
Sitecore Experience Platform
SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIESitecore’s analytics cookies allows us to collect analytics in a way that identifies you and your use of the websites.
The Sitecore Analytics data is collated and stored within RSSB record(s). The purpose of collecting this information is to allow us to understand how people are using our websites so we can provide better, improved services.1 year Linkedin ads
Linkedin Insight TagWe sometimes use Linkedin ad campaigns to promote our services.
The LinkedIn Insight Tag allows us to understand how visitors who may come via the campaigns we run on LinkedIn interact with our website, and the effectiveness of our campaigns. LinkedIn does not share personal data with us, it retains data for 6 months from the last time the user’s browser loaded it, or until the user deletes it. Linkedin only provides aggregated reports about the website audience and ad performance.
See the LinkedIn privacy policy.
The lifespan of cookies can vary depending on the campaign.
Please refer to the third parties’ websites for more information, including how to manage your preferences with them.
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3. How do I change my cookie settings?
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save and close’. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Information on managing cookies on popular browsers:
For others, visit the browser developer's website. Please be aware that restricting essential cookies may impact the way our website works for you.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
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4. Do we record IP addresses?When you visit this site, some information is automatically collected. For example, your computer's operating system, internet protocol (IP) address, access times, browser type and language, and/or the site you came from may be logged automatically. This information is not used for the purposes of identifying you. This information is used to verify the computer that is used for security reasons and for any troubleshooting purposes where required. IP address may also be collected in relation to some analytics cookies – these are not used by CIRAS for the purposes of identifying you.
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5. Other RSSB sites
For cookies relating to the RISQS website please manage your preferences on the pop up that appears for that site and refer to this link for more information.
For information about cookies set in relation to RSSB website(s) please refer to the RSSB cookie policy.
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6. Contact
This cookie policy applies to CIRAS websites. You can find out about how we look after your data in the CIRAS privacy notice.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this statement are welcome and should be addressed to the data protection officer. You can contact the data protection officer at data.protection@rssb.co.uk.
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7. Changes to our cookie policyWe may update this cookie policy from time to time. This cookie policy includes the date last updated.