This is a list of the categories of cookies used in our website and why we use them.
These cookies are essential for this service to perform basic functions and are necessary for us to operate certain features. These include those required to allow registered users to authenticate and perform account-related functions, store preferences set by users such as account name, language, and location, and ensure our service is operating properly. Below are examples of such cookies, with explanations of their purpose. Some of these cookies are set across our whole network, whereas some are specific to individual services. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, but rather aims to be representative.
| _shibsession_<uid> (open.win.ox.ac.uk) | The Shibboleth federated identity management system uses this key to track your shib session. We use this to check you are who you say you are. |
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| experimentation_subject_id (.ox.ac.uk) | This cookie is set by the Shibboleth federated identity management software. |
| sessionid (open.win.ox.ac.uk) | This cookie is used by our site to look after essential session information such as your login id. |