Cookies Policy

LAST UPDATED 12 SEPTEMBER 2024

Cookies are harmless text files that allow a website server to recognise you when you revisit the website. There are two main types of cookies:

Transient (or session) cookies.	These are set and exist for the duration of your visit to a specific website and are removed when you finish. They recognise you as you move, and navigate between, the different website pages so that you do not need to re-enter who you are and often can help to maintain your security.
Persistent (or permanent) cookies.	These remain on your computer until they expire or are deleted. Many persistent cookies have automatic deletion dates to help ensure your computer doesn't get overloaded with cookies. Persistent cookies will often retain previously entered information to ease and simplify subsequent data input. For example: your login user ID or email address.

Like most websites, this website uses both types of cookies to simplify and ease a user's journey and experience. Cookies can also be 1st (first) or 3rd (third) party cookies:

1st Party :	These are owned and created by us for the website you're viewing.
3rd Party :	These are owned and created by an independent company. Usually this is a company partnering to provide services to us as owners of the website.

We use both our own (first-party) and partner companies' (third-party) cookies to facilitate and support a simpler and more secure website experience for our users

We use cookies to:

Gather information on a user's journey across our sites
Ensure your privacy is protected in our secure sites
Store your login details for our secure sites
Temporarily store input information in any of our calculators, tools, illustrations and demonstrations
Store details of your marketing, product and business preferences to improve our targeting to you and enhance your journey through our sites and partner sites
Evaluate our sites' advertising and promotional effectiveness (we own the anonymous data collected and don't share it with anyone)

We don't and will never:

use cookies to track your Internet usage after leaving one of our sites
store personal information in them that others could read and understand
sell or distribute cookie information without your prior consent.

Cookies we use on our sites

The following information is correct at the time of writing. It contains a list of cookies used on our sites with a brief information of their purpose and their key attributes.

Testing Cookies - Cookies which allow specific users to be allocated experimental functionality.
_vwo_uuid_v2	Visual Website Optimiser
_vis_opt_s	Visual Website Optimiser.
_vis_opt_exp_11_exclude	Visual Website Optimiser.
_vis_opt_test_cookie	Visual Website Optimiser.
Advertising - Cookies used to provide advertising content to users.
_uetsid	Microsoft Bing Advertising cookie.
OX_plg	Google Ads cookie.
spid	Sellpoints ID Cookie
sp_ssid	Sellpoints Session Cookie
sp_apnxid	Sellpoints ID Cookie
sp_sync_ssid	Sellpoints synchronisation cookie.
_pubcid	Publisher Common ID cookie.
Third Party Analytics - cookies used to identify website usage and drive optimisation.
__gads	Google Analytics.
_gat	Google Analytics.
_gid	Google Analytics.
_ga	Google Analytics.
__utmb	Google Analytics.
__utma	Google Analytics.
__utmv	Google Analytics..
__utmc	Google Analytics.
__utmt	Google Analytics.
__atuvc	Google Analytics.
__utmz	Google Analytics.
__qca	Quantcast
s_sq	Omniture
s_fid	Omniture.
_hjIncludedInSample	HotJar: Site analytics and optimisation tool, used to deliver surveys and polls.
__atuvs	AddThis social sharing widget - commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms.
mp_fd3d5759a07726972	Mixpanel session cookie
Core Site - Cookies which provide essential or enhanced functionality.
TEScookieLawCookie	Used to store a users response to the Cookie banner.
geoCountry	Stores the country we think the user is currently residing in, used to personalise the site to ensure that currency and language are appropriate for each audience.
siteCountry	Stores the country the user has selected to view the site in, used to personalise the site to ensure that currency and language are appropriate for each audience. Values are GB (default), US, AU, NZ, CA, IE.
lastLogin	Stores the time of last login..
has_js	Indicates if we think the current browser has javascript enabled, used to optimise the site delivery.
nagfooter	Stores the status of last presentation of our onsite footer, to ensure that users are not shown the same content in quick succession.
csrf	Cross Site Request Forgery cookie, used to prevent common attack vectors for form submission.
First Party Analytics - Cookies set by Tes which provide site usage analytics.
__tess	Tes Analytics: First party session cookie used to measure on site activity.
__tesu	Tes Analytics: First party unique browser cookie used to measure on site activity.
__tese	Tes Analytics: First party experiment cookie used to assign users to experiments to optimise onsite content and functionality.
__tesv	Tes Analytics: First party visit cookie used to measure on site activity.
Help Chat Widget
__tawkuuid	TawkTo: Identify a user across sessions to retain chat history with customer support.
TawkConnectionTime	TawkTo: Used by our customer services chat widget to deliver service.
Tawk_596c9f1e1dc79b329518eb22	TawkTo: Used by our customer services chat widget to deliver service.
Marketing
_ju_pn	JustUno: Used to present targeted marketing messages in response to user action.
_ju_dc	JustUno: Used to present targeted marketing messages in response to user action.
ju_v	JustUno: Used to present targeted marketing messages in response to user action.
ABTasty	ABTasty: Contains all the experiments data: visitor ID, campaignHistory, timestamp and account settings.
ABTastySession	ABTasty: Contains landing page URL. Also used to determine if new session.
ABTastyDomainTest	ABTasty: Checks that we are operating on the expected domain.
abTastyDebug	ABTasty: Set at true to enter debug mode.
Session - cookies used to maintain state and manage the current browser session.
aucp13n	Authentication cookie used by our Content Management System.
SSESS6a207cf063c42ff9948ec180cec61f1c	Authentication cookie used by our Content Management System.
_clck	Microsoft Clarity: Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID.
_clsk	Microsoft Clarity: Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording.
_clck	Microsoft Clarity: Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID.
CLID	Microsoft Clarity: Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity.
ANONCHK	Microsoft Clarity: Indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn't use ANID and so this is always set to 0.
MR	Microsoft Clarity: Indicates whether to refresh MUID.
MUID	Microsoft Clarity: Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes.
SM	Microsoft Clarity: Used in synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains.

Cookies can be categorised as being 'intrusive' or not in relation to storing any data items that could potentially identify some aspect of an individual user's identity; whether real or a pseudonym.

Whilst in legal interpretations there are degrees of intrusiveness, TES Global has adopted the more cautious definition where any cookie that has a single identifying data item is categorised as 'intrusive'. All intrusive cookies, whether session or persistent, are stored in encrypted form to protect against any possibility of accidental or unintended disclosure.

You can manage the use of cookies, including advertising cookies, and disable the sharing of data with partners for advertising purposes by using the steps set out here. In some cases you can turn off advertising cookies on a cookie-by-cookie basis, and we give the most common examples below.

You can find information about how to opt out of the cookies provided by our key partners here:

AppNexus	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Comscore	Performance cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Meta	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Google Adwords	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Google Adx	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Google Analytics	Performance cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Google DoubleClick	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Improve Digital	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Index Exchange	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Krux	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
LinkedIn	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Microsoft Bing	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Nielsen	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
OpenX	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Outbrain	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Sonobi	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Twitter	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy
Unruly	Advertising cookie	Opt out	Privacy policy

You can switch some cookies off through the Your Online Choices site. You may need to do this again each time you use a different IP address or device.

It is also possible to stop your browser from accepting cookies altogether by changing your browser’s cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. The following links may be helpful, or you can use the “Help” option in your browser.

Cookie settings in Internet Explorer

Cookie settings in Firefox

Cookie settings in Chrome

Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS