Cookies Policy

Cookie

Name

Purpose

Google Analytics

_utma 
_utmb 
_utmc 
_utmz

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Find out how to opt out of Google Analytics data collection

OpenX

OAID

This cookie is used by our ad server software to manage which ads are served to you on our website, and to capture clicks on those ads. Information is collected in anonymous form, and we do not use this data to deliver specific content, advertising or otherwise, to your browser.

If you are do not want the advertising on the website served to you to use this cookie, click here to replace it with an opt out cookie. If you decide to opt out, advertisements may still be delivered to your web browser but those advertisements may not be as relevant to you because the advertisement request will only use information that is automatically transmitted through an Internet communication (e.g., web browser type, Internet Service Provider, information about the general content of the website or web page displayed on your web browser) and not information collected using an OpenX Cookie. Please note that if you delete the opt out cookie, then you may receive the OpenX Cookie again. This cookie will automatically expire after one year.

You can find out more about the OpenX cookie at www.openx.com/about/openx-market-privacy-principles.

Addthis

psc

uid

uit

uvc

Although the AddThis cookies do no collect personally identifiable information about our users, it does collect general information that includes which web page you came from, which type of browser you are using, and your general geographic location. AddThis uses this information to provide analytics to help website owners that helps them better understand their visitors. AddThis also uses this information to help advertisers deliver more relevant ads.

View the full privacy policy for AddThis

Find out how to opt-out from AddThis data collection

Google +

NID
HSID
SSID
APISID
SAPISID
SID

BEAT

ULS

A set of unique identifiers used by Google applications to store user preference information.





A persistent cookie that is used to track Google+ (+1) status

A session cookie used to track Google+ (+1) status

Twitter

k

guest_id

original_referer

_twitter sess

auth_token

auh_token_session

secure_session

twll

lang

pid

Twitter image server cookie

Identifies whether the visitor is a user or guest of Twitter

This cookie is used to supply the feed on this site.

Defines a unique ID associated with the current user linked to Twitter

On login

On login

On login

On login

On login

Used by Twitter (from the share buttons that are embedded in some of our pages)

Facebook

datr

reg_fb_gate

reg_fb_ref

wd

lsd

c_user

csm

lu
s

locale

sct

xs

This identifies the web browser being used to connect to Facebook independent of the logged in visitor. This cookie plays a key role in Facebook’s security and site integrity features

This contains the first Facebook page visited

This contains the last Facebook page visited

This identifies the browser window dimensions

This contains a random value that is set when a Facebook user logs out in order to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks

This contains the user ID of the currently logged in visitor. The lifetime of this cookie is dependent on the status of the "keep me logged in" checkbox. If the checkbox is set, the cookie expires after 30 days of inactivity, otherwise the cookie is a session cookie and will therefore be cleared when the browser exits

This cookie is used to integrate the user's Facebook's Like status with the London 2012 site

This is used to manage how the login page is presented to the visitor. The lifetime is the same as c_user

This contains the display locale of the last logged in visitor on this browser. This is set after the visitor logs out

This contains a timestamp representing the time at which the visitor logged in. This cookie is used to distinguish between multiple sessions created at different times. The lifetime is the same as c_user

This contains the session number, a session secret and an optional "secure" flag (if visitor has enabled secure browsing feature). The lifetime is the same as c_user