What is a Cookie?

To make this site work properly, we place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.

A Cookie is a small data file sent from a website to your device (computer or mobile phone) that is stored by your web browser as a text file. Cookies allow websites to remember information about your visit, for example, when you login, information entered into forms or which pages you’ve visited, among other functions. The length of time a cookie is stored on your device varies: some are stored for the duration of your visit, with others stored for much longer. This page details how the Resource Data Management website uses cookies.

How we Use Cookies

Our website, like many others, stores and retrieves information on your browser using cookies. This information is used to make the site work as you expect it to.  It is not personally identifiable to you, but it can be used to give you a more personalised web experience.

Cookies help us identify your device, performance of typical actions on this website or when you are logged in to specific secure zones. We use strictly necessary and functional cookies to enable you to move around the site and to provide basic features.

Managing Your Cookies

Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose to manage your preferences to prevent non-essential cookies from being set. For more information, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer (including those from this visit) as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile device, you will need to refer to your handset manual.

List of Cookies

Tracking and performance cookies are used to provide a better overall user experience. Below is a list of the cookies we use on this site. This list is reviewed and regularly updated so please check back to ensure that you are kept up to date of all of the cookies that we are tracking.

Cookies used on the RDM website have been categorised according to the categories in the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) UK Cookie Guide.

 

Category
Description
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website.
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
Marketing Cookies
These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests.

 

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.

Some cookies are strictly necessary for enabling you to move around this website and use its most basic features. Without these cookies, for example, you would not be able to login to secure zones.

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.

The Resource Data Management website is managed using a Umbraco content management system.

Category
Description
Lifespan
Host
ASP.NET_SessionId
Preserves session state across page requests.
Session www.resourcedm.com
__RequestVerificationToken
Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.
Session www.resourcedm.com
Cookie Consent
Stores cookie consent.
Session www.resourcedm.com

 

 

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources, to enable us to measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.

All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore, anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

Category
Description
Lifespan
Host
__utmz
One of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service, which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour measure of site performance. This cookie identifies the source of the traffic to the site.
6 months
www.resourcedm.com
__utmb
One of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service, this cookie determines new sessions.
25 minutes
www.resourcedm.com
__utma
One of the four main cookies set by the Google Analytics service, which enables website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. This cookie distinguishes between users and sessions. It is used to calculate new and returning visitor statistics.
2 years
www.resourcedm.com
__utmt
Used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes
3 minutes
www.resourcedm.com

 

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember the choices that users make. For example, user name, language or region, and provide enhanced, more personal features.

Category
Description
Lifespan
Host
Language
Used to store language preferences.
Session www.resourcedm.com
rc::c
This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.
Session www.resourcedm.com
_osm_totp_token
-
1 Hour
openstreetmap.org

 

Marketing Cookies

Do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.

Category
Description
Lifespan
Host
APISID, SSID, SID, SAPISID, HSID
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 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.
3 months
https://www.google.com
NID
Refer to the description above.
6 months
https://www.google.com