Cookies on the Museum's site

What are cookies?

Cookies are small blocks of data created by a web server while you are browsing a website.

Why do we use cookies

They are used widely to improve how websites work, to give users the best online experience tailored to their interests and to provide information to website owners about how their site is used and how well it is performing.

We may also use information gained from cookies to tailor the content of our communications with you via other channels, for example if you are opted in to receive marketing emails.

Functional cookies

These cookies let you use all parts of the Museum's websites and remember the choices you make to give you better functionality and personal features. Without them, services that you’ve asked for can’t be provided.

Some examples of how we use these cookies are:

Remembering if you visited the websites before so that messages for new visitors are not displayed to you
Recognising you when you sign into the Museum's online shop or recruitment portal

See the functional cookies used on the Museum's websites

Cookie name: nhm-performance, nhm-functional, nhm-marketing, nhm-functional-XXXXXX, nhm-wpy-functional, nhm-wpy-marketing, nhm-wpy-performance
Purpose: Used to remember cookie consent settings and to prevent marketing and performance data being collected if the user has rejected those cookies.

Cookie name: JSESSIONID
Purpose: Used when you log in to the main area of the Museum's website to use our Nature Plus forums, Jobs website or online shop.

Cookie name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Purpose: Session cookies that are used to manage logged in users.
More information: Used within our recruitment portal https://www.downtownmelody.com/_x/bmhtLmlyZWNydWl0dG90YWwuY29tLg

Cookie name: _dc_gtm_UA-57477456-19
Purpose: Used to load scripts and code into a page.

Cookie name: .ASPXAUTH
Purpose: Used to determine if a user is authenticated.

Cookie name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Purpose: Used to maintain an anonymised user session.
More information: This cookie is used on the Wildlife Photographer of the Year site.

Cookie name: nhm.sso.loggedIn
Purpose: Used when you log in to the main area of the Museum's website to use our Nature Plus forums, Jobs website or online shop.

Cookie name: ROUTEID
Purpose: Used for persistence by EBEAC and Synthesys applications.

Cookie name: SESSION
Purpose: Used to identify the user’s session while purchasing memberships.

Cookie name: __cfduid
Purpose: Used to speed up page load times.

Cookie name: stsservicecookie, x-ms-gateway-slice, CkTst, brcap, fpc, buid, esctx
Purpose: Multiple cookies required for Azure B2C sso functionality.

Cookie name: __cfduid
Purpose: Used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis.

Cookie name: __cfduid
Purpose: Used by RawGit to serve raw files directly from GitHub.

Cookie name: MoodleSession
Purpose: Used by Moodle to provide continuity and maintain a user's login from page to page. When you log out or close the browser this cookie is destroyed (in your browser and on the server).
More information: Moodle is an online training platform that hosts some of the Museum's training options.

Cookie name: PHPSESSID
Purpose: If you visit the UK Species Inventory Sandbox site then this cookie will be set on your device to ensure that your settings are remembered from one page to another whilst you browse the site.

Cookie name: ckan
Purpose: A session cookie used to manage logged in users on the Natural History Museum Data Portal.

Cookie name: sb_csrftoken
Purpose: Protects against Cross-Site Request Forgery security attacks.

Cookie name: ugid
Purpose: Provided by Unsplash to allow images to be embedded into our website.

Cookie name: SERVERID
Purpose: Identifies the server that delivered the last page to the browser, used for load balancing.

Cookie name: ASPSESSIONIDXXXXXXXX
Purpose: Used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server.

Cookie name: _GRECAPTCHA