Privacy & Cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through Internet browser cookies – what they are and how to manage them
We have tried to cover all cookies in this list that we or our service providers use. Please be aware that there may be a delay in updating this list. If you do notice any discrepancies please be sure to contact us and let us know.
Removing and disabling cookies
If you do not wish to accept cookies on to your machine you can disable them by adjusting the settings on your browser. However this will affect the functionality of the websites you visit.
Cookies set by us
Cookies for improving service
The X-Mapping cookie is sent by the server to keep the user’s browser sessions intact as we load balance and use a clustered array of servers. If a user reloads a page they could be served the content from another server entirely but this cookie tracks the user to the same server.
Name: X-Mapping-hnnbnhog
Typical content: Information about which server is providing content to the user
Domain: www.royalarmouries.org
Expires: when user exits browser
This cookie stores transient (data messages)and search queries
Name: ci_session
Typical content: Search queries,Form validation messages.
Domain: www.royalarmouries.org
Expires: less than 2 hours
Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.
Name: _utma
Typical content: randomly generated number
Domain: royalarmouries.org
Expires: 2 years
Name: _utmb
Typical content: randomly generated number
Domain: .royalarmouries.org
Expires: 30 minutes
Name: _utmc
Typical content: randomly generated number
Domain: royalarmouries.org
Expires: when user exits browser
Name: _utmz
Typical content: randomly generated number + info on how the site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid search)
Domain: royalarmouries.org
Expires: 6 months
For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code website
Cookies set by third-party services
Throughout the site we utilise the services of external service providers to enhance the visitors’ experience. They set cookies to enhance their service or to track usage or to validate users. These cookies are only set when the page that uses that service is visited.
Cookies for improving service
Google Analytics sets cookies to help accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.
For further details about the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code website
Cookies set to ensure authentication
Name: PHPSESSID
Typical content: Randomly generated session key to ensure secure submission of data such as players’ scores.
Domain: henryviiidressedtokill.viral-game.co.uk
Expires: when user exits browser
Cookies set by Google to store user preferences and information when viewing pages with Google maps on them.
Name: PREF
Typical content: Randomly generated number
Domain: google.com
Expires: 2 years
Name: NID
Typical content: Randomly generated number
Domain: google.com
Expires: 6 months
Cookies set by Share This widget.
The __uset cookie is set to true to indicate that a user has been cookied and to not repeat the task in the next 8 hours. The __stid cookie is the Share This ID to identify user session. The UID and UIDR cookies are associated with comScore; these are used to get 3rd party measurement of our audience size.
Name: __uset
Content: yes
Domain: .sharethis.com
Expires: 4 hours
Name: __stid
Content: randomly generated number
Domain: .sharethis.com
Expires: 1 year
Name: UID
Content: randomly generated number
Domain: .scorecardresearch.com
Expires: 1 year
Name: UIDR
Content: randomly generated number
Domain: .scorecardresearch.com
Expires: 1 year