Expert thinking that brings you closer to your patients What are cookies? Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. They are sent back to the originating website each time you visit the site. Cookies can't harm your computer. What do cookies typically do? Cookies can be used for lots of reasons. On Alliance Healthcare websites we use them to remember your preferences, but we also use them to monitor how visitors use our site so that we can improve them in the future. Types of cookies We've used the same categorisation of cookies that has been defined by the International Chamber of Commerce (UK). We've done this to ensure that users become familiar with the typical uses of the various types of cookies. Cookies used by Alliance Healthcare Strictly necessary cookies - these cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around websites and use their features, such as accessing secure areas. The website wouldn't work for you without them Performance cookies - these cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often. These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. We use this information to improve how our website works. Functionality cookies - these cookies allow the website to remember choices you make. We use them to remember your username and accessibility settings. The information these cookies collect cannot track your browsing activity on other websites Cookies not used by Alliance Healthcare Targeting/advertising cookies - These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests Third party cookies on Alliance healthcare websites If you use our careers section (http://careers.alliance-healthcare.co.uk), you may notice that some cookies are not related to Alliance Healthcare. We have partnered with RecruitActive who provide us with an online recruitment service. More details about the types of cookies used on our careers website are provided below. Alliance Healthcare websites and cookies Public facing websites Our public facing websites allow existing or prospective customers, employees or other members of the public to find out more about our company and the services we provide. Alliance Healthcare corporate website (http://www.alliance-healthcare.co.uk) Cookie name Cookie type Purpose CSS_CONTRAST Functionality cookie This is a site personalisation cookie which is used to remember whether a high or normal contrast colour palette should be used. It is only set when the high contrast version of our site is selected from our accessibility page. This cookie is deleted after a year. CSS_THEME Functionality cookie This is a site personalisation cookie which is used to remember whether the website should be displayed without any graphics. It is only set when the text only version of our site is selected from our accessibility page. This cookie is deleted after a year. CSS_TEXTSIZE Functionality cookie This is a site personalisation cookie which is used to remember the preferred size of text to use on the site. It is only set when the text only version of our site is selected from our accessibility page. This cookie is deleted after a year. __utmz __utma __utmb __utmc Performance cookie These cookies are set by Google Analytics, and they help analyse visitor information such as browser usage and new visitor numbers. This helps us to improve our website. The data stored by these cookies can be seen only by the relevant teams at Alliance Healthcare. If you want to opt-out of Google Analytics, please refer to the section on Google Analytics below COOKIE_SUPPORT Strictly necessary cookie This cookie is set by our content management system. 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It does not contain any personal information Alliance Healthcare careers (http://careers.alliance-healthcare.co.uk) Cookie name Cookie type Purpose ASP.NET_SessionID Strictly necessary cookie This cookie stores a unique identifier given to each computer which allows the website to keep track of your movement from page to page. It allows you to browse pages of the site quickly and easily without having to login on each page or re-enter the same information. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser window. Two of these cookies are set on when visiting the Alliance Healthcare careers website, one from http://careers.alliance-healthcare.co.uk, and another from http://alliance.recruitactive.co.uk RegistrationID Strictly necessary cookie This cookie provides extra security on the careers website. We use an encrypted connection between your machine and our site through which this cookie is sent. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser window. 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You'll need a username and password to login and access the features. your documents (https://yourdocuments.alliance-healthcare.co.uk) Cookie name Cookie type Purpose ASP.NET_SessionID Strictly necessary cookie This cookie provides extra security on the your documents site. We use an encrypted connection between your machine and our site through which this cookie is sent. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser window. iDELUserName Functionality cookie This cookie is used to remember your email address on the log in page. We only store your email address if the 'remember my email address' option is selected on the log in page. The cookie will stay on your machine indefinitely. cookiePdfIdentifiers Strictly necessary cookie This cookie is essential for the site. It is used to remember what document you selected prior to it being shown on your screen. This cookie does not store any personally identifiable information. 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It is deleted 24 hours after your last use of the site.Previously, we used 17 cookies to manage this information, but we recently reduced this to a single one. __utmz __utma __utmb __utmc Performance cookie These cookies are set by Google Analytics, and they help analyse visitor information such as browser usage and new visitor numbers. This helps us to improve our website. The data stored by these cookies can be seen only by the relevant teams at Alliance Healthcare. If you want to opt-out of Google Analytics, please refer to the section on Google Analytics belowThey will only set on your device if you have opted in to allow Google Analytics Manufacturer Ordering (MSF) (http://supplier.alliance-healthcare.co.uk) Cookie name Cookie type Purpose sessionID Strictly necessary cookie This cookie stores a unique identifier given to each computer which allows the website to keep track of your movement from page to page. It allows you to browse pages of the site quickly and easily without having to login on each page or re-enter the same information. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser window. loginName Strictly necessary cookie This cookie is used to track the logged in user as part of the ordering process. The cookie is deleted when you close your browser or log out. Alliance Healthcare Portal (https://myahportal.co.uk) Cookie name Cookie type Purpose WBA-CUST-SESS Strictly necessary cookie This cookie stores a unique identifier given to each computer which allows the website to keep track of your movement from page to page. It allows you to browse pages of the site quickly and easily without having to login on each page or re-enter the same information. 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