Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. The applications on Turas use different types of cookie.
More information about cookies, including how to block them or delete them, can be found at AboutCookies.org.
Cookies used by Turas
Turas uses Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the different applications. See Google Privacy Policy.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry/Lifespan |
| _ga | Google analytics cookie used to distinguish users | 2 years |
| _gat | Google analytics cookie used to throttle request rate | 10 minutes |
| _gid | Google analytics cookie. Used to distinguish users | 1 day |
Turas uses Applications Insights, a performance management service for web developers on multiple platforms. Applications Insights records everything to do with the Turas apps, including status on users, application performance and errors. See Application Insights Privacy Policy.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry/Lifespan |
| ai_session | Microsoft Application Insights cookie. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie. | 30 minutes |
| ai_user | Microsoft Application Insights cookie. This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time. | 1 year |
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry/Lifespan |
| treestate | Custom cookie to store the state of the Learn content tree (Used by administrators only) | Session |
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry/Lifespan |
| .AspNet.Cookies | Used for cookie-based authentication. | Session |
| __RequestVerificationToken | This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised 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 |
| ARRAffinity | This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. | Session |
| ASPNet_SessionId | Used by ASP.Net to store a unique identifier for the current session | 1 day |
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expiry/Lifespan |
| buid | login.microsoftonline.com Azure Active Directory B2C authentication-related cookie | 6 months |
| esctc | login.microsoftonline.com Azure Active Directory B2C authentication-related cookie | Session |
| stsservicecookie | login.microsoftonline.com Azure Active Directory B2C authentication-related cookie | Session |
| testcookie | login.microsoftonline.com Azure Active Directory B2C authentication-related cookie | Session |
| x-ms-cpim-cache | login.microsoftonline.com Azure Active Directory B2C authentication-related cookie | Session |
| x-ms-cpim-dc | login.microsoftonline.com Azure Active Directory B2C authentication-related cookie | Session |
| x-ms-cpim-rc | login.microsoftonline.com Azure Active Directory B2C authentication-related cookie | Session |
| x-ms-cpim-slice | login.microsoftonline.com Azure Active Directory B2C authentication-related cookie | Session |
| x-ms-cpim-sso | login.microsoftonline.com Azure Active Directory B2C authentication-related cookie | Session |
| x-ms-cpim-trans | login.microsoftonline.com Azure Active Directory B2C authentication-related cookie | Session |
| x-ms-gateway-slice | login.microsoftonline.com Azure Active Directory B2C authentication-related cookie | Session |