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Name Purpose Optional? Purpose Expiry
ai_session This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie. YES Performane 30 minutes
ASP.NET_SessionId General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. NO Necessary session
.AspNet.ApplicationCookie This session cookie is used to store account information for the duration of the session. NO Necessary session
ARRAffinitySameSite This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. NO Necessary session
__RequestVerificationToken This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. NO Necessary session
ARRAffinity This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. NO Necessary session
ai_user This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statictical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time. YES Performane 1 year
_hjid Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. YES Performane 1 year
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. YES Performane 30 minutes
_hjTLDTest When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. YES Performane session
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site’s pageview limit. YES Performane 30 minutes
_gid This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. YES Performane 24 hours
_scid Cookie associated with Snapchat. Sets a unique ID for the visitor, that allows third party advertisers to target the visitor with relevant advertisement. This pairing service is provided by third party advertisement hubs, which facilitates realtime bidding for advertisers. YES Targeting/Advertising 1 year
userId This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. Stores the ID of the user. YES Targeting/Advertising 1 day
languageC This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. Stores the default language of the user. YES Targeting/Advertising 1 day
restaurantNameC This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. Stores the name of the restaurant. YES Targeting/Advertising 1 day
_ga This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics – which is a significant update to Google’s more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. YES Performane 2 years
_gat This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. YES Performane 10 minutes
clientPopupDisplayed Cookie that stores the information whether the welcoming popup has been shown or not. NO session
termsDisplayed Cookie that stores the information whether the popup with new terms has been shown or not.

Applies only to Ireland and Nothern Ireland

NO Necessary session
EU_COOKIE_LAW_CONSENT Cookie that stores the information about the user cookies preferences NO Necessary 30 days
__Secure-3PSID This group is set by Google. Stores information such as user ID, it’s preferences. It does not collect any sensitive data unless a user is logged in to it’s Google account. YES Targeting/Advertising 2 years
__Secure-3PAPISID 2 years
__Secure-3PSIDCC 1 year
1P_JAR 1 hour
ANID 1 hour
APISID 2 years
CONSENT 20 years
HSID 2 years
NID 6 months
OGP 2 months
OGPC 2 months
SAPISID 2 years
SID 2 years
SIDCC 3 months
SSID 2 years
AI_sentBuffer This cookie group is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This cookie is used to limit the number of data-server updates. YES Performance session
AI_buffer session
_hjFirstSeen Unclassified YES Unclassified 1 day