Cookie Policy
Cookies
Cookies are small text files sent to your computer or mobile device by the websites that you visit. They help make websites work better and provide information to the owners of the site. For instance, this site uses YouTube cookies to embed videos in its pages and Google Analytics cookies to track users’ behaviour whilst on the site. By understanding how people use our site, we can improve the navigation and content to better meet people’s needs. The information collected by the Welsh Government includes IP address, pages visited, browser and operating system. The data will not be used to identify any user personally.
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Cookies used on this site
NAME | PROVIDER | TRACKER TYPE NAME | EXPIRY DESCRIPTION | PURPOSE DESCRIPTION |
has_js | businesswales.gov.wales | HTTP Cookie | Session | Registers whether or not the user has activated JavaScript in the browser. |
CookieConsent | tradeandinvest.wales | HTTP Cookie | 1 year | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain |
has_js | tradeandinvest.wales | HTTP Cookie | Session | Registers whether or not the user has activated JavaScript in the browser. |
lang | linkedin.com | HTTP Cookie | Session | Set by LinkedIn when a web page contains an embedded "Follow us" panel. |
collect | google-analytics.com | Pixel Tracker | Session | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
_ga | tradeandinvest.wales | HTTP Cookie | 2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
_gat | tradeandinvest.wales | HTTP Cookie | 1 day | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
_gid | tradeandinvest.wales | HTTP Cookie | 1 day | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
lang | ads.linkedin.com | HTTP Cookie | Session | Remembers the user's selected language version of a website |
MUID | bing.com | HTTP Cookie | 1 year | Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. |
MUIDB | bing.com | HTTP Cookie | 1 year | Registers data on visitors from multiple visits and on multiple websites. This information is used to measure the efficiency of advertisement on websites. |
IDE | doubleclick.net | HTTP Cookie | 1 year | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
test_cookie | doubleclick.net | HTTP Cookie | 1 day | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. |
fr | facebook.com | HTTP Cookie | 3 months | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
tr | facebook.com | Pixel Tracker | Session | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
1P_JAR | google.com | HTTP Cookie | 29 days | Collects information on visitor behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used on the website in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement |
ads/ga-audiences | google.com | Pixel Tracker | Session | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites. |
CONSENT | google.com | HTTP Cookie | 220 months | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. |
NID | google.com | HTTP Cookie | 6 months | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. The ID is used for targeted ads. |
pagead/1p-user-list/# | google.com | Pixel Tracker | Session | Generated by Google pagead dynamic marketing to track events such as conversions or other meaningful user interactions |
rc::c | google.com | HTML Local Storage | Session | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. |
bcookie | linkedin.com | HTTP Cookie | 2 years | Used by the social networking service LinkedIn |
bscookie | linkedin.com | HTTP Cookie | 2 years | Used by the social networking service LinkedIn |
lidc | linkedin.com | HTTP Cookie | 1 day | Used by the social networking service LinkedIn |
UserMatchHistory | linkedin.com | HTTP Cookie | 29 days | Used to track visitors on multiple websites in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. |
i/adsct | t.co | Pixel Tracker | Session | The cookie is used by Twitter.com in order to determine the number of visitors accessing the website through twitter advertisement content. |
_fbp | tradeandinvest.wales | HTTP Cookie | 3 months | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
_gcl_au | tradeandinvest.wales | HTTP Cookie | 3 months | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
personalization_id | twitter.com | HTTP Cookie | 2 years | This cookie is set by Twitter - The cookie allows the visitor to share content from the website onto their Twitter profile. |
GPS | youtube.com | HTTP Cookie | 1 day | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. |
PREF | youtube.com | HTTP Cookie | 8 months | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | HTTP Cookie | 179 days | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
YSC | youtube.com | HTTP Cookie | Session | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
yt-remote-cast-installed | youtube.com | HTML Local Storage | Session | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-connected-devices | youtube.com | HTML Local Storage | Session | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-device-id | youtube.com | HTML Local Storage | Session | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-fast-check-period | youtube.com | HTML Local Storage | Session | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-session-app | youtube.com | HTML Local Storage | Session | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |
yt-remote-session-name | youtube.com | HTML Local Storage | Session | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video |