Cookie Policy

This website uses Cookies on its websites to provide you with the best experience when browsing our content.

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are stored on your device when you visit a website. Cookies are read by the originating website on each subsequent visit, or by another website that recognises the cookie. The purpose of cookies is to make websites work most effectively for you as the user, by allowing website functionality and providing information to the website's owners.

What types of cookies are there?

Cookies can be broken down into two main types: First-Party and Third-Party.

• A cookie is first-party if set by the website (domain) being visited.
• A cookie is classed as third-party if it is issued by a different website (domain) to that being visited.

Each cookie will be either a Persistant cookie or a Session cookie.

• Persistent cookies remain on a user's device for the period of time specified in the cookie (which may be after the browser has been closed).
• Session cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.

Cookies can also be broken down into categories, according to their purpose. The cookies that are used on Towergate websites are based on the International Chamber of Commerce guide for cookie categories:

• Category 1: Strictly necessary cookies - These cookies enable services you have specifically asked for.
• Category 2: Functionality cookies - These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience.
• Category 3: Performance cookies - These cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited.
• Category 4: Targeting cookies or advertising cookies - These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.
• Category 5: Other

Strictly Necessary (Essential) Cookies

This website only uses the following essential essentially cookies that are required for functionality and security

1st Party

• Microsoft Azure Application Request Routing Affinity - ARRAffinity - This cookie is used by Azure App Services, the hosting platform, to allow a session to be routed to the same instance of the application (This is a Session type cookie).
• Azure AD B2C Authentication - .AspNetCore.AzureADB2CCookie - This cookie is stored once authentication is complete, it allows the application to know who you are and verifies that you have permission to access the site (This is a Session type cookie).
• Security - .AspNetCore.Antiforgery - This cookie allows the application to verify that any data transmitted to the server has come from a permitted source (This is a Session type cookie).
• Consent - .AspNet.Consent - This cookie is used to store whether consent has been given to store non-essential cookies (This is a Session type cookie).

3rd Party

• Microsoft Application Insights software cookies - ai_session, ai_user - These cookies are used by Microsoft Application Insights, which collects anonymous statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform and provides audit logging.
  • ai_session - This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie (This is a Session type cookie).
  • ai_user - This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time (This is a Session type cookie).

Please note that consent is not required to download essential cookies to your computer.