Cookie Policy

Manage your cookie settings

Our website (www.randa.org) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. You can find out more about cookies at  www.allaboutcookies.org We use the following types of cookies:
  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to use a shopping cart.  
  • Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.   
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).   
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Purpose

JSESSIONIDStrictly necessary A general purpose platform session cookie used to maintain users’ state across page requests.  
_gat   Performance Set by Google Analytics to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites.  
_ga _gid   Analytics    Set by Google Analytics. These cookies show us how many people have visited the website and when, but cannot be used to identify you. This helps us to improve our website’s usability. You can find out more about Google Analytics cookies  here  
s_vi   Analytics Set by Adobe Analytics. This cookie shows us how many people have visited the website and when, but cannot be used to identify you. This helps us to improve our website’s usability. You can find out more about Adobe analytics cookies  here .  
s_fid   AnalyticsSet by Adobe Analytics to store a fallback unique user ID time/date stamp. The purpose of the cookie is to identify users if the standard s_vi is unavailable due to third-party cookies restrictions.   
gpv_pnAnalyticsSet by Adobe Analytics to track previous page name.  
uvc   Analytics Set by the AddThis social sharing service to determine the usage of the AddThis service.  
_atuvc _atuvs   Functionality Set by the AddThis social sharing service. These cookies show us how many users have shared the page and they display the counter to the user.  
s_cc   Functionality Set by Adobe Analytics to determine whether or not cookies are enabled in a browser.  
AWSALB   Functionality Generated by the application load balancer in Amazon Web Services to optimise user experience.   
AWSALBCORS   Functionality Generated by the application load balancer in Amazon Web Services to ensure the security of the website.  
loc   Targeting A geolocation cookie which helps us to understand where users are located.   
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.  This cookies policy may be amended by us at any time. Please check this page periodically so that you are aware of any changes. This policy was last updated in November 2020.