When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- – enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task
- – recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested
- – measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through “Internet browser cookies – what they are and how to manage them”
Our Use of cookies
Cookies for recognising users and their preferences
The TCIO website uses cookies so once you have logged on with your username and password, so you don’t have to do it for every web page you request from our service or to remember your selections or preferences that you’ve already made when looking at information or using a service on the site.
Cookies used on our blog WordPress sets cookies so that you don’t have to fill in your name and email address every time you want to comment on our blog and so you can see comments you made that are awaiting moderation. There is also a cookie used to determine if a user is a person or a bot.
Name: comment_author
Typical content: user name entered
Expires: 1 year
Name: comment_author_email
Typical content: user email address entered
Expires: 1 year
Name: comment_author_website
Typical content: user website url entered
Expires: 1 year
Name: bb2_screener_
Typical content: timestamp + IP address of user
Expires: At end of website visit
Third party cookies
TCIO uses a variety of social media sites. You can find the details of their privacy and cookies policies using the following links:
TCIO also uses Google analytics to track visits to the site anonymously. The cookies used are named __utma, __utmb, __utmc and __utmz; these expire after six months. For full details of Google’s privacy policy please see the link below:
Google privacy policy