Cookie policy
This cookie policy is intended to inform you how we use cookies, what types of cookies and how you can change your cookie preferences.
The Drinkaware Trust (“Drinkaware”, “we, “our”) uses cookies on its website and on its app. This Cookies Notice explains more about cookies and why we use them. It also explains how you can control and opt out of receiving them.
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Notice which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
We update this Cookies Notice from time to time in response to changes in applicable laws and regulations, changes to our processing practices and to products and services we offer. When changes are made, we will update the last updated date of this notice. Please review this Cookies Notice periodically to check for updates.
A cookie is a small text file which may be downloaded to your device when you visit our website and when you use our app. We use cookies to allow our website and our app to function correctly, remember your preferences and to track visitors to our website.
The cookies we use on our website fall into the following categories:
We use cookies to collect information about the use of our website by visitors such as the pages they visit most often, how they arrived at our website and associated information. These do not collect any directly identifiable personal information about visitors. We use these cookies to learn more about how our website is used to identify problems and areas for improvement.
Functionality cookies remember the choices you make when you visit our website. This includes, for example, your consent to the use of cookies on our website.
These are cookies placed by third parties on our website which record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. They use this information for advertising purposes.
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see details in the table below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
The cookies we use on our website and their purposes are as set out in the following table:
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
__gsas | Provides ad delivery or retargeting. | 3 years | No |
__gpi | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. | 1 year | No |
__gpi_optout | Collects information on user behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement on the website. | 13 months | No |
GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY | Improves targeting/advertising within the website. | session | No |
ACLK_DATA | This cookie is used to help improve advertising. This targets advertising based on what's relevant to a user, to improve reporting on campaign performance. | 5 minutes | No |
_gcl au | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months | No |
_gcl dc | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months | No |
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
Cookie control | Stores user consent preferences for your website. | 3 months | No |
CookieControlTC | Stores IAB TCF consent preferences. | 3 months | Unknown |
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
guest_id | This cookie is set by X to identify and track the website visitor. Registers if a users is signed in the X platform and collects information about ad preferences. | 1 year | No |
personalization_id | Unique value with which users can be identified by X. Collected information is used to be personalize X services, including X trends, stories, ads and suggestions. | 1 year | No |
ct0 | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | 2 years | No |
gt | x uses these cookies to support plugin integration with our website. If you use the Tweet plugin and log into your X account, X will set some of these cookies to remember that you are logged in. X will also use cookies for their own analytics purposes. | 1 year | No |
guest_id_marketing | This cookie is for advertising when loged out | 1 Year | No |
guest_id_ads | This cookie is for advertising when loged out | 1 year | No |
muc_ads | These cookies are placed when you come to our website via X. A cookie from X is also placed on our website, with which we can later show a relevant offer on X | 1 year | No |
_twittersess | This cookie is set due to X integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. | Session | Yes |
ads_prefs | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | 2 years | Yes |
auth_token | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | 2 years | Yes |
csrf_same_site | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | 2 years | Yes |
csrf_same_site_set | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your site. | 2 years | Yes |
dnt | These are third party X cookies. These cookies enable users, if they wish, to login to their X account share content from our websites with their friends. These cookies do not allow us access to your accounts or provide us with any confidential information relating to your accounts. These cookies also allow a news feed of tweets to appear on the website. | 2 years | Yes |
eu_cn | These are third party X cookies. These cookies enable users, if they wish, to login to their X account share content from our websites with their friends. These cookies do not allow us access to your accounts or provide us with any confidential information relating to your accounts. These cookies also allow a news feed of tweets to appear on the website. | 2 years | Yes |
external_referer | Our Website uses X buttons to allow our visitors to follow our promotional X feeds, and sometimes embed feeds on our Website | 2 years | Yes |
kdt | These are third party X cookies. These cookies enable users, if they wish, to login to their X account share content from our websites with their friends. These cookies do not allow us access to your accounts or provide us with any confidential information relating to your accounts. These cookies also allow a news feed of tweets to appear on the website. | 2 years | Yes |
remember_checked_on | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. These cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | 2 years | Yes |
rweb_optin | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. These cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | 2 years | Yes |
syndication_guest_id | Used to collect information about users browsing behaviour for marketing purposes including digital display and social media advertising. | 2 years | Yes |
twid | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | 2 years | Yes |
tfw_exp | These cookies enable us to track visitor activity from our X ads on our website, and also to allow users to share content from our websites. They cookies do not provide us with any confidential information relating to your account. | 2 years | Yes |
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
__cfduid | The '__cfduid' cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable | 5 years | No |
__cfruid | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Session | No |
__cf_bm | Cloudflare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. | 30 minutes | No |
cf_chl_2 | Used by Cloudflare for the execution of Javascript or Captcha challenges. These cookies are not used for tracking or beyond the scope of the challenge. | Session | No |
__cflb | When enabling session affinity with Cloudflare Load Balancer, Cloudflare sets a cflb cookie with a unique value on the first response to the requesting client. Cloudflare routes future requests to the same origin, optimizing network resource usage. In the event of a failover, Cloudflare sets a new cflb cookie to direct future requests to the failover pool. | 30 minutes | Yes |
_cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule, and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. | Session | No |
cf_clearance | Whether a CAPTCHA or Javascript challenge has been solved. | 1 year | No |
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
lidc | Used by the social networking service LinkedIn, for tracking the use of embedded services. | 24 hours | No |
bcookie | Used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services. | 1 year | No |
bscookie | Used by LinkedIn to track the use of embedded services. | 1 year | No |
trkCode | This cookie is used by LinkedIn to support the functionality of adding a panel invite labeled 'Follow Us' | 1 year | Yes |
trkInfo | This cookie is used by LinkedIn to support the functionality of adding a panel invite labeled 'Follow Us' | 1 year | Yes |
li_oatml | Collects information about how visitors use our site | 30 days | Yes |
liap | Cookie used for Sign-in with Linkedin and/or to allow for the Linkedin follow feature. | 90 days | Yes |
lissc | Pending | 1 year | Yes |
spectroscopyId | These cookies are set by LinkedIn for advertising purposes, including: tracking visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented, allowing users to use the 'Apply with LinkedIn' or the 'Sign-in with LinkedIn' functions, collecting information about how visitors use the site, etc | Session | Yes |
UserMatchHistory | These cookies are set by LinkedIn for advertising purposes, including: tracking visitors so that more relevant ads can be presented, allowing users to use the 'Apply with LinkedIn' or the 'Sign-in with LinkedIn' functions, collecting information about how visitors use the site, etc. | 30 days | No |
lang | Used to remember a user's language setting | 2 years | No |
li_gc | Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes | 1 year | Yes |
li_rm | Used as part of the LinkedIn Remember Me feature and is set when a user clicks Remember Me on the device to make it easier for him or her to sign in to that device. | 30 days | Yes |
AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries | 1 day | No |
ln_or | Used to determine if Oribi analytics can be carried out on a specific domain | 3 months | No |
li_sugr | Used to make a probabilistic match of a user's identity outside the Designated Countries | No |
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
_ga_T1SCL0774C | used by GA4 to store and maintain the user's active session state. | 2 years | No |
ga_58XTY81SKL | This specific cookie is responsible for persisting and tracking the unique session state of a user as they navigate through a website | 2 years | No |
_ga | ID used to identify users | 1 year | Unknown |
ga_* | Used to identify and track an individual user session. | 2 years | No |
_gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours | 24 hours | Unknown |
_gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager | 58 seconds | No |
dc_gtm_ | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 1 minute | No |
AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token code that is used to read out a Client ID from the AMP Client ID Service. By matching this ID with that of Google Analytics, users can be matched when switching between AMP content and non-AMP content. | 1 year | No |
gat_* | Used to set and get tracking data | 1 hour | No |
_gac | Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together. | 90 days | No |
__utma | ID used to identify users and sessions | 2 years | No |
__utmt | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 10 minutes | No |
__utmb | Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 30 minutes | No |
__utmc | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. | Session | No |
__utmz | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server | 6 months | No |
__utmv | Contains custom information set by the web developer through the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated each time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 2 years | Unknown |
__utmx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. | 18 months | No |
__utmxx | Used to determine when the A / B or Multivariate test in which the user participates ends | 18 months | No |
FPAU | Assigns a specific ID to the visitor. This allows the website to determine the number of specific user visits for analysis and statistics. | Session | No |
FPID | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator | 1 year | No |
FPLC | This FPLC cookie is the cross-domain linker cookie hashed from the FPID cookie. It’s not HttpOnly, which means it can be read with JavaScript. It has a relatively short time, just 20 hours | 20 hours | No |
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
MR | Used to collect information for analytics purposes. | 7 days | No |
MUID | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year | No |
MUIDB | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year | Yes |
MC1 | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes | 1 year | No |
MSFPC | Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes. | 1 year | Yes |
_uetsid | This cookie is used by Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to the end user perusing the site. | 24 hours | No |
_uetsiv | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | 1 year | No |
ANON | Contains the A, a unique identifier derived from your Microsoft account, which is used for advertising, personalization, and operational purposes. It is also used to preserve your choice to opt out of interest based advertising from Microsoft if you have chosen to associate the opt-out with your Microsoft account. | 1 year | Yes |
ANONCHK | Used to store session ID for a users session to ensure that clicks from adverts on the Bing search engine are verified for reporting purposes and for personalisation | 10 minutes | No |
CC | Contains a country code as determined from your IP address. | 1 year | Yes |
PPAuth | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account | 5 years | Yes |
MSPAuth | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | 5 years | Yes |
MSNRPSAuth | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | 5 years | Yes |
KievRPSAuth | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | 5 years | Yes |
WLSSC | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | 5 years | Yes |
MSPProf | Helps to authenticate you when you sign in with your Microsoft account. | 5 years | Yes |
MC0 | Detects whether cookies are enabled in the browser. | Session | Yes |
MS0 | Identifies a specific session | Session | No |
NAP | Contains an encrypted version of your country, postal code, age, gender, language and occupation, if known, based on your Microsoft account profile | 1 year | Yes |
MH | Appears on co-branded sites where Microsoft is partnering with an advertiser. This cookie identifies the advertiser, so the right ad is selected. | Session | Yes |
childinfo | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | 5 years | Yes |
kcdob | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | 5 years | Yes |
kcrelid | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | 5 years | Yes |
kcru | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | 5 years | Yes |
pcfm | Contains information that Microsoft account uses within its pages in relation to child accounts. | 5 years | Yes |
x-ms-gateway-slice | Identifies a gateway for load balancing | Session | No |
ToptOut | Records your decision not to receive interest-based advertising delivered by Microsoft. | 1 year | Yes |
ACH01 | Maintains information about which ad and where the user clicked on the ad. | Session | Yes |
AADSSO | Microsoft Microsoft Online Authentication Cookie | Session | Yes |
brcap | Microsoft Online Authentication Cookie | 1 year | No |
SRM_B | Collected user data is specifically adapted to the user or device. The usercan also be followed outside of the loaded website, creating a picture of the visitor's behavior. | 1 year | No |
_RwBf | This cookie helps us to track the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on the Bing advertising network | 1 year | Yes |
_HPVN | Analysis service that connects data from the Bing advertising network with actions performed on the website. | 1 year | Yes |
_UR | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes. | 1 year | Yes |
OID | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes. | 3 months | Yes |
OIDI | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes. | 3 months | Yes |
OIDIR | This cookie is used by the Bing advertising network for advertising tracking purposes | 3 months | Yes |
BCP | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | 1 year | Yes |
BFBUSR | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | 1 year | Yes |
BFB | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | 1 year | Yes |
ACL | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | 3 months | Yes |
ACLUSR | This cookie is used for advertisement tracking purposes. | 1 year | Yes |
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
IDE | This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite | 1 year | No |
DSID | This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite | 60 minutes | Yes |
ID | This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite | 2 months | Yes |
RUL | Used by DoubleClick to determine if the website ad was properly displayed. This is done to make their marketing efforts more efficient. | 1 year | Yes |
FLC | This cookie is used to link your activity across devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. We do this to coordinate that the ads you see across devices and measure conversion events. | 10 seconds | Yes |
__gads | This cookie is used by Google for a variety of purposes (e.g., ensuring Frequency Caps work correctly). It includes AdSense if you have AdSense enabled. This cookie is associated with the DoubleClick for Publishers service from Google. Its purpose is to monitor the showing of advertisements on the site, for which the owner may earn some revenue. The main purpose of this cookie is targeting/advertising | 1 year | No |
GoogleAdServingTest | Used to register what ads have been displayed to the user. | Session | No |
ar_debug | Store and track conversions | 1 year | No |
test_cookie | This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. | 15 minutes | No |
APC | This cookie is used for targeting, analyzing and optimisation of ad campaigns in DoubleClick/Google Marketing Suite | 6 months | No |
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
_ab | Used in connection with access to admin. | Session | Yes |
secure_session_id | Used in connection with navigation through a storefront. | Session | Yes |
Cart | Used in connection with shopping cart. | 14 days | Yes |
cart_sig | Used in connection with shopping cart | 14 days | Yes |
cart_ts | Used in connection with checkout | 14 days | Yes |
checkout_token | Used in connection with checkout | 14 days | Yes |
Secret | Used in connection with checkout | 14 days | Yes |
Secure_customer_sig | Used in connection with customer login | 2 years | Yes |
storefront_digest | Used in connection with customer login | 2 years | Yes |
shopify_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information | 2 years | Yes |
tracking_consent | Tracking preferences. | 1 year | No |
landing_page | Track landing pages | 14 days | No |
orig_referrer | Track landing pages | 14 days | No |
_s | Shopify analytics. | 2 years | No |
_shopify_fs | Shopify analytics. | 2 years | Yes |
_shopify_s | Shopify analytics. | 30 minutes | No |
_shopify_sa_p | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. | 30 minutes | No |
_shopify_sa_t | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. | 30 minutes | No |
_shopify_uniq | Shopify analytics | 2 years | Yes |
_shopify_visit | Shopify analytics | 2 years | Yes |
_shopify_y | Shopify analytics | 1 year | No |
_y | Shopify analytics | 2 years | Yes |
tracked_start_checkout | Shopify analytics relating to checkout. | 2 years | Yes |
ki_r | Shopify analytics | 2 years | Yes |
ki_t | Shopify analytics | 2 years | Yes |
_Brochure_session | Used in connection with browsing through site. | 2 years | Yes |
shopify_pay_redirect | Used in connection with checkout. | 60 minutes | No |
cart_currency | Set after a checkout is completed to ensure that new carts are in the same currency as the last checkout | 14 days | No |
dynamic_checkout_sho wn_on_cart | Used in connection with checkout. | 30 minutes | Yes |
keep_alive | Used in connection with buyer localization | 30 minutes | Yes |
checkout_session_toke n | Used in connection with checkout. | 3 weeks | No |
checkout_session_look up | Used in connection with checkout. | 3 weeks | No |
cart_ver | Used in connection with shopping cart. | 2 weeks | No |
localization | Used in connection with checkout. | 1 year | Yes |
locale_bar_accepted | This cookie is provided by app (BEST Currency Converter) and is used to secure currency chosen by the customer. | Session | No |
_cmp_a | Used for managing customer privacy settings. | 24 hours | No |
shopify_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of a store such as session and checkout information and anti-tampering data. | 1 year | No |
shopify_analytics | Contains analytics data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | 1 year | No |
_shopify_marketing | Contains marketing data for buyer surfaces such as the storefront or checkout. | 1 year | No |
shop_app_essential | Contains essential information for the correct functionality of Shop.app. | 1 year | Yes |
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
Secure-ROLLOUTTOKEN | A a functional HTTP cookie set by YouTube to manage feature rollouts, testing, and experiments. | 6 months | |
_Secure-YNID | Stores user video player settings and interface choices on embedded YouTube content. | 6 months | No |
GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | 1 day | No |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Also used for marketing | 6 months | No |
PREF | This cookie stores your preferences and other information, in particular preferred language, how many search results you wish to be shown on your page, and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. | 10 years | No |
YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | No |
DEVICE_INFO | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR compliance of the website. | 180 days | No |
LOGIN_INFO | This cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | 2 years | Yes |
VISITOR_PRIVACY_M ETADATA | Youtube visitor privacy metadata cookie | 6 months | No |
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
lu | Used to record whether the person chose to remain logged in | 2 years | Yes |
xs | Used in conjunction with the c_user cookie to authenticate your identity to Facebook | 90 days | Yes |
c_user | Used in conjunction with the xs cookie to authenticate your identity to Facebook. | 90 days | Yes |
m_user | Used to authenticate your identity on Facebook's mobile website. | 90 days | Yes |
pl | Used to record that a device or browser logged in via Facebook platform | 90 days | Yes |
dbln | Used to enable device based login | 2 years | Yes |
aks | Determines the login state of a person visiting accountkit.com | 30 days | Yes |
aksb | Authenticates logins using Account Kit | 30 minutes | Yes |
sfau | Optimizes recovery flow after failed login attempts | 1 day | Yes |
ick | Stores an encryption key used to encrypt cookies | 2 years | Yes |
csm | Insecure indicator | 90 days | Yes |
s | Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies. | 90 days | Yes |
datr | Used to prevent creation of fake / spammy accounts. Datr cookie is associated with a browser, not individual people. | 2 years | No |
sb | Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies | 2 years | No |
fr | Contains a unique browser and user ID, used for targeted advertising | 90 days | No |
oo | Ad optout cookie | 5 years | Yes |
ddid | Used to open a specific location in an advertiser's app upon installation | 28 days | Yes |
locale | This cookie contains the display locale of the last logged in user on this browser. This cookie appears to only be set after the user logs out. | 7 days | No |
_fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | 3 months | No |
_fbc | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | 2 years | Yes |
js_ver | Records the age of Facebook javascript files. | 7 days | Yes |
rc | Used to optimize site performance for advertisers | 7 days | Yes |
campaign_click_url | Records the Facebook URL that an individual landed on after clicking on an ad promoting Facebook | 30 days | Yes |
wd | This cookie stores the browser window dimensions and is used by Facebook to optimise the rendering of the page. | Session | No |
usida | Collects a combination of the user’s browser and unique identifier, used to tailor advertising to users | Session | No |
presence | The presence cookie is used to contain the user’s chat state. | Session | Yes |
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
buid | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your login information | 30 days | No |
esctx | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your login information | Session | No |
fpc | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your login information | 30 days | No |
stsservicecookie | Cookie for Azure Active Directory B2C-verification | Session | No |
ARRAffinity | When using Microsoft Azure as a hosting platform and enabling load balancing, this cookie ensures that requests from one visitor's browsing session are always handled by the same server in the cluster. | Session | No |
ARRAffinitySameSite | When using Microsoft Azure as a hosting platform and enabling load balancing, this cookie ensures that requests from one visitor's browsing session are always handled by the same server in the cluster. | Session | No |
__AntiXsrfToken | This cookie is used to prevent Cross-site request forgery (often abbreviated as CSRF) attacks of the website. CSRF attacks exploit the trust that a site has in a user's browser. | Session | No |
.ASPXANONYMOUS | Created by ASP.Net. This cookie configures anonymous identification for application authorization. This is required to identify entities that are not authenticated when authorization is required. | 2 months | No |
.ASPXAUTH | Created by ASP.Net. .ASPXAUTH is a cookie to identify if the user is authenticated( As user's identity has been verified) | Session | No |
nSGt- | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your Sharepoint login information | Session | Yes |
RpsContextCookie | This cookie is used by Microsoft to securely verify your Sharepoint login information | Session | Yes |
ASLBSACORS | Microsoft App Service and Front Door Affinity Cookies. These cookies are used to direct your browser to use the appropriate backend server. | Session | No |
ASLBSA | Microsoft App Service and Front Door Affinity Cookies. These cookies are used to direct your browser to use the appropriate backend server. | Session | No |
ASPSESSIO | Browsing session: the asterisks identify an alphanumerical code that varies from session to session in automatic mode. | Session | No |
ApplicationGatewayAffi nity | This cookie is used by Azure Apps to keep a user session on the same server. | Session | No |
ApplicationGatewayAffi nityCORS | This cookie is used by Azure Apps to keep a user session on the same server. | Session | No |
VisitorStorageGuid | This cookie is used by Azure Apps to keep a user session on the same server. | Session | No |
Cookie Name | Description | Retention period | Third party |
.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.cdV5uW_Ejgc | This cookie is designed to stop unauthorized posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user and is destroyed on closing the browser. | Session | No |
RecordID | This cookie tracks and identifies a user as a DotDigital contact | 1 year | Yes |
dmSessionID | This cookie tracks and identifies a user as a DotDigital contact | Yes | |
TFPSI | TFPSI represents Teads First Party Session ID. This identifier groups all user events that happened in a singular session, regardless of whether the user arrived via a Teads advertisement. By using this cookie, Teads can enhance the accuracy and reliability of its measurements, leading to better insights into session metrics such as qualified visit rates and pages viewed. Additionally, it improves our ability to capture and segment traffic more effectively, offering valuable insights into our performance relative to competitors. | 30 minutes | No |
In the mobile app, user actions are tracked with certain parameters included to help Drinkaware evaluate feature functionality and performance. These user analytics are optional, and enrolment can be controlled at the operating system (OS) level by the user (this was mandated via the updates we’ve made to meet new Android and iOS requirements).
The only two services currently installed on the app are Google Firebase (the app analytics platform) and Facebook (mainly for reporting ad clicks).
Google Firebase and Facebook may share the information collected by the cookies with third parties for the purposes of analytics and targeted advertising. Please visit their privacy policies for more information, using the links set out in the table above.
You can allow or block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that permits you to change the setting of all or some cookies. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the availability or functionality of our website. Most of the website will function normally, however, functions that rely on cookies such as our webchat will be disabled.
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This policy was published on 25/11/2024 and last updated on 04/08/2026.