A cookie is a text file that is stored on your computer by your web browser when you visit certain websites and remembers useful information.
Ramsay Health Care will not use cookies to collect any personally identifiable information about you.
The list below details cookies that are used on Ramsay Health Care UK websites and what they are used for.
Necessary cookies are required to ensure that certain parts of Ramsay’s websites function and are easier for you to use.
| Cookie | What is it used for? | Expiry |
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apt.uid, apt.sid
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Used for telemetry data. |
Session Close |
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Strictly necessary. Used by the Optimizely security components. Protects the user against cross-site request forgery (CSRF). Used only by the CMS UI. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser. | Session Close |
| .AspNetCore.Identity.Application | Strictly necessary. To keep users logged in for the duration of their browsing session. | Session Close |
| EPi:NumberOfVisits | Functionality-related. Stores the number of times you access pages on the site to allow personalization of content based on the frequency the site content is viewed. Used with the Number of Visits personalization criterion. This cookie is not set if you remove it from all of your audiences. Persistent (1 year from creation). | Session Close |
| EpiStateMarker | Functionality-related. Indicates how session based information on the visit should be stored, using sessions or cookies. | Session Close |
| Cookie | What is it used for? | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
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Google Analytics __utma |
A user’s amount of visits, duration of first visit, the previous visit and the time of the current visit is stored in this Cookie. |
2 Years from setup or update |
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__utmb __utmc |
These cookies are used to check approximately how long a visitor remains on a site (by storing when the visit starts and approximately when the visit ends). Due to the nature of these cookies, these are updated regularly. | 30 Minutes from setup or update |
| __utmz | This cookie stores where the user has navigated from (for example a Search Engine). | 6 Months from setup or update |
| SC_ANALYTICS_ SESSION_COOKIE |
Sitecore uses this cookie to track the pages that a user visits during a single browsing session and the date/time that they were accessed. | When the browser is closed |
| SC_ANALYTICS_ GLOBAL_COOKIE |
Sitecore uses this cookie to identify repeat visits from a single user. | 10 years from setup or update |
| Optimizely Experimentation optimizelyEndUserId | Stores a visitor's unique Optimizely Experimentation identifier. It is a combination of a timestamp and a random number. No other information about you is stored inside. This is used to improve user experience on the site based on website testing and outcomes. | 6 months from the last page visit |
| Cookie | What is it used for? | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
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Bing.com MUID SRCHD SC |
This range of cookies enable tracking to return more relevant results. | Most cookies expire in approximately a year |
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Cludo.com _ga km_ai km_lv kvcd |
This range of cookies is to enhance search experience for users on site. | Session close |
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www.googletagmanager.com gtm_debug gtm_preview gtm_auth |
This range of cookies is to track the users experience on the ramsayhealth.co.uk website | 30 days |
| Cookie | What is it used for? | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
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ads/user-lists/# IDE |
Google uses this as script tag to improve future marketing. Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the web site 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. |
Session close |
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fr tr |
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
3 month Session close |
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Bing MUID MUIDB |
Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. | 1 year |
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Infinity Tracking ict_0 ict_master |
Contains third party tracking and number replacement source cache Stores the unique Visitor Reference |
1 year |
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