Jisc Cookies
Download as PDFVersion: 2
Issued: June 2016
Reference: IM-DOC-005
Owner: Adric Warth
September 2018 - this document is currently under review
We may use cookies.
A cookie is a small piece of data or message that is sent from a web server to your browser and may be stored on your hard drive. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Cookies do not damage your system.
You can reset your browser so as to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent. To find out more, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. If you refuse cookies, some websites may not function. In particular the Jisc websites rely on cookies for the following functions:
| Function | Cookie Name(s) | Further information |
| Janet Netsight: netsight.ja.net | ||
| Allowing visitors to log in to Janet Netsight | ASP.NET_Session_id | This cookie is essential to recognise you as an authenticated user of Janet Netsight. It will be deleted when you close your browser. For more information see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899918 |
| Remembering that a user has viewed the Netsight tour | Netsight Tour | If you block or delete this cookie then you will be shown the tour again. |
| CRM: crm.company.ja.net | ||
| Allowing the server to recognise you as an authenticated user |
PHPSESSID ck_login_id_20 |
These cookies are essential to recognise you as an authenticated user of the Janet CRM system. It will be deleted when you close your browser. |
| Displaying consistent look and feel across the site | Sugar_user_theme | This cookie records the “theme” used to display the CRM website. Currently it is set to “Sugar5” for all users |
| Remembering your preferred language setting | ck_login_language_20 | This cookie records the language (English, etc.) for messages from the CRM system. Blocking or deleting this cookie will result in messages in the default language. |
| Jisc Certificate Service: community.jisc.ac.uk/apps/janet-certificate-service | ||
| Allowing the server to identify the session that you are using. |
ASP.NET_SessionId |
These cookies are essential to recognise you as an authenticated user of the Jisc Certificate Service. It will be deleted when you close your browser. For more information see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899918 |
| Allowing the server to recognise you as an authenticated user |
.ASPXAUTH |
These cookies are essential to recognise you as an authenticated user of the Jisc Certificate Service. It will be deleted when you close your browser. For more information see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899918 |
| Allowing the server to recognise you as an authenticated federated user |
_shibstate_<no> |
These cookies are essential to recognise you as an federated user of the Jisc Certificate Service. It will be deleted when you close your browser. For more information see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899918 |
| Janet Connection & Upgrade Service and Janet IP upgrade service: jcurweb.ja.net/jcur/ | ||
| Allowing the server to identify the session that you are using. |
JSESSIONID |
This cookie is essential to recognise you as an authenticated user of the Janet Connection & Upgrade and Janet IP Upgrade Services. It will be deleted when you close your browser. |
| eduroam(UK) Support site: support.roaming.ja.net | ||
| Allowing the server to recognise you as an authenticated user |
PHPSESSID |
This cookie is essential to recognise you as an authenticated user of the Janet Roaming Service. It will be kept in your browser for three weeks. |
| Janet Webmedia: webmedia.company.ja.net | ||
| Allows the website to serve content | session | Session allows the page to serve appropriate content to the user. |
| Keeping an anonymous record of how visitors use the website | __utma __utmb __utmc __utmz |
The Google Analytics software is described at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
| Remembering Google Analytics choice | gainc | Determines whether the user wants Google Analytics cookies to run |
| Jisc Community: community.jisc.ac.uk | ||
| Allows the website to serve content | ssess | Session allows the page to serve appropriate content to the user. |
| Keeping an anonymous record of how visitors use the website | __utma __utmb __utmc __utmz |
The Google Analytics software is described at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
| Saml IdP | _saml_idp | Cookie to allow identity provider to identify you. |
| Shibboleth Session | _shibsession_<number> | Shibboleth session allows the page to serve appropriate content to the user. |
| Allowing the server to identify whether the browser is using Javascript | has_js | Identifies whether a browser has Javascript enabled to display Javascript elements or go to non-Javascript . |
| Remember your Library preferences | adaptiveLibraryDefaultState | Domain specific cookie, used to remember the closed/open state of the Library Finder Window between page requests. Session only, and is deleted on close of your browser |
| Used to aid caching of the website for authenticated users | authcache | Set when a user logs in, holding a role-specific random string which is sent with cache requests using AJAX. This aids us with our aggressive caching in providing customised Javascript-loaded content across page requests. Session only, and is deleted on close of your browser. |
| Used to aid caching of the website for authenticated users | drupal_user drupal_uid |
These are set only for logged-in users, and aid our caching of pages for authenticated users. These two cookies store the user’s unique username and unique User ID for quick and easy retrieval with javascript. They are essential for improving the speed of the site for authenticated users. Session only, and are deleted on close of your browser, or on logout. |
We use YouTube and Vimeo to serve the videos on the Janet site. They will serve the cookies for both sites.
| Function | Name | Further information |
| YouTube: www.youtube.com | ||
|
Double Click advert |
__ar_v4 | Used by YouTube to serve advertising |
| YouTube activity | ACTIVITY | Used by YouTube to follow your YouTube activity |
| Session id | SID | YouTube session id |
| Session id | HSID | YouTube session id |
| Log in cookie | LOGIN_INFO | Login in functions for YouTube |
| YouTube preferences | PREF | YouTube preferences |
| Session Id | SSID | YouTube secure session id |
| YouTube page testing | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Cookie to see if user wants to see a new home page |
| Demographic cookie | demographics | Cookie which adds the viewed content to an aggregated demographics system |
| Hitbox cookie | use_hitbox | Use Hitbox software |
| Watched video | watched_video_id_list_rXDVY | Cookie which follows whether a video has been watched |
| Function | Cookie | Further Information |
| Vimeo: www.vimeo.com | ||
| Quantcast cookie | __qca | Tracking cookie set by Quantcast software |
| Keeping an anonymous record of how visitors use the website, so we can improve the content and navigation of the website as well as report to the JISC on the level of use of services they pay for | __utma __utmb __utmc __utmz |
The Google Analytics software is described at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
| Vimeo clip id | clip_id | The id of the clip being viewed |
| Vimeo user id | uid | The id of the logged in user |
| Double Click cookies | _drt_ id |
Cookies used by the Double Click advert serving software |
