Use of cookies by the ICO


Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

We use these cookies on the external career site:

  • Session management cookies: User, device, and session ID cookies along with timestamp cookies for timing out sessions after inactivity. These cookies expire at the end of the session.
  • Routing cookies: To forward requests for a single session to the same server for consistency of service. These cookies expire at the end of the session.
  • Application: Security Management (ASM) cookies - To help protect web applications and infrastructure from security attacks. These cookies expire at the end of the session.


Cookie

Name

Purpose
Cookie preference

CookieControl

This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on ico.org.uk. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.

Language selection

language

This cookie is used to remember any selection a user has made about language on papermagichris.com using the language selector, so that the site will be shown in their chosen language when returning to the site.
Session experience

wd-browser-id

User, device, and session ID cookies along with timestamp cookies for timing out sessions after inactivity. These cookies expire at the end of the session.

Security Management

TS*

Helps prevent cyber attacks on the user’s interactions with the enterprise cloud applications. Verifies that the domain and subdomain cookies sent between the web server and the client aren’t altered. These cookies expire at the end of the session.

Security Management

CALYPSO_CSRF_TOKEN

Contains a CSRF token to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks, that is, to prevent a user from carrying out unintended operations on the career site. These cookies expire at the end of the session.

Load balancing

WorkdayLB_SAS

Used to forward requests for a single session to the same server for consistency of service. These cookies expire at the end of the session.

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