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A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded on to your computer while you are visiting a website. It is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive, tablet or mobile device. Some cookies remain on your device only for as long as you keep your browser active (session cookies) and others remain for a longer period (persistent). Cookies may be placed by us when you visit our websites, or by third parties.
We use cookies and similar technologies on this site (https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk) ("our site"). Some are essential to make our site work and others are optional. We and select companies may access information such as the device, operating system and type of browser you are using; cookie information and information about your activity on that device, including web pages and mobile apps visited or used, along with the IP address and associated geographic location of the device when it accesses a website or mobile application.
Technologies that store or access information on a user's device are similar to cookies and are also covered by this policy. These technologies may include:
In this policy we call all cookies and similar technologies "cookies", for ease.
Some of the cookies we set are needed to make our site work (necessary cookies). If you're unhappy with these it is possible to disable them using your browser settings. You can usually find these settings in the "options" or "preferences" menu in your browser. If you stop your browser from accepting these cookies, our site may not work correctly.
You can manage the use of non-essential cookies on our site, including advertising cookies, and disable the sharing of data with partners for advertising purposes by clicking the "cookies" link in the footer of every page of our site and adjusting your preferences.
For more information about how we may use personal data, please read our privacy policy.
These cookies are needed to make our site work. You can only disable them by changing your browser preferences. If you disable them, our site may not work correctly.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| X-Mapping-fjhppofk | Once you have logged in, this cookie is used to balance the load on each of the web servers. It helps this website manage high levels of traffic | End of session |
| __RequestVerificationToken | This cookie is created by the website to protect itself against malicious attacks | End of session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Session cookie, allowing your item or data selection to be remembered from page to page | End of session |
| fasST | Records whether you used the quick or the pro search, allowing us to show you the same search on your next visit | 30 days |
| fasAT | Allows us to display adverts based on your search criteria | 30 days |
| fasSL | Records when you add a firm to your shortlist | 1 month |
| ARRAffinity | The Application Request Routing Affinity cookie is used by our infrastructure platform to route requests to the correct server for load balancing | Session |
| ARRAffinitySameSite | This cookie performs the same job as the previous cookie, but with the extra SameSite security setting applied | Session |
| CookieControl | Records and saves your cookie consent preferences to avoid asking you for consent again each time you log in | 120 days |
| _GRECAPTCHA | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | 1 day |
These cookies help improve our site by helping us and our partners understand better how visitors find, interact with, and navigate around our site.
We use Google Analytics Universal and Google Analytics 4 to collect and analyse data about how our website is used. These cookies collect information and report site usage statistics but do not personally identify individual visitors to our site to Google. To learn more about how Google Analytics collects and uses data when you use our site, and how you can control the information sent to Google Analytics, please read the Google Product Privacy Guide and select 'Google Analytics'.
We use other third-party analytics tools on our site to improve its functionality, including Hotjar (an analytics and feedback tool). This service sets cookies on our site to make these functions work and to analyse how users interact with these tools. More information on these cookies is set out below. You can disable these cookies but if you do, then this service may not work correctly on our site.
Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users' behaviour and their devices. This includes:
Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymised user profile. It is restricted from selling any of the data collected on our behalf. For further details see the 'about Hotjar' section of Hotjar's support site. To disable Hotjar cookies on your browser, visit Hotjar's opt out page.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Stores a unique client ID, made up of a randomly generated number. This ID is later used by Google Analytics servers to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics cookie. This assigns a unique ID to help recognise and distinguish between returning users on our site. | 24 hours |
| SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE | Assigns a unique ID to help us recognise you when you return to our site or log in using a different device, to show you more personalised content | 10 years |
| __qca | This cookie contains a unique ID for Quantcast Measure so that we can gather anonymised demographic data about our visitors | 392 days |
| _clsk | Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Microsoft Clarity session recording | 1 day |
| _clck | Persists the Microsoft Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site, on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID | 1 year |
| _fbp | To store and track visits across websites | 3 months |
| _hjid | This cookie is set when you first land on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures the behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID | 1 year |
| _hjIncludedInSample | Processes a value of 1 or 0 to identify if a user is part of a Hotjar experiment | Session |
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_hjClosedSurveyInvites _hjDonePolls _hjDoneTestersWidgets _hjMinimizedPolls _hjShownFeedbackMessage |
These cookies may be set once you interact with a relevant option on our site (such as a survey invitation popup, a feedback poll or a user tester form). They are used to ensure that the same feature does not reappear if it has already been shown or completed, or if you minimise an option, that it stays minimised as you navigate through our site | 1 year |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity | This should be found in sessionStorage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records) | Session |
We serve advertising on pages of our site. The advertising cookies below are used to collect information about your visit to our site, including the content you have viewed, the links you have followed and information about your browser, device and your IP address. The advertising techniques we use do not collect personal data such as your name, email address, postal address or phone number.
We also allow other organisations to use cookies and similar technologies on our site to display advertising and help us analyse how our site is being used.
We use Google ads (Google AdExchange) to deliver advertising. To do this, Google may collect or receive information about you. You can opt out and find further information about Google Ads by via this link to Google's Privacy Policy or by changing your settings in myadcenter.google.com and adssettings.google.com/partnerads.
Making a choice about personalised advertising does not mean you will not see advertising on our site. When you make a choice regarding personalised advertising, that may reduce the number of advertising partners with whom we share your data or reduce the relevance of advertising tailored for you.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _gadsI | Assigns a unique identifier to each of our website users for the Google Ads system, to recognise returning users | 2 years |
| _gcl_ | Google Ads conversion tracker, whose main purpose is to help advertisers determine how many times people who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site (for example making a purchase). These cookies allow Google and the advertiser to determine that you clicked on the ad and later visited the advertiser's site. Conversion cookies are not used by Google for personalised ad targeting and persist for a limited time | 90 days |
| ANID | Used to show Google ads on non-Google sites. If you have personalised ads enabled, the 'ANID' cookie is used to remember this setting and lasts for 13 months. If you have turned off personalised ads, the 'ANID' cookie is used to store that setting until 2030 | 13 months |
| DSID | Used to identify a signed-in user on non-Google sites and to remember whether the user has agreed to ad personalisation | 14 days |
| IDE | Sets a unique ID used for ad conversion tracking and re-marketing. This is used to register and report a website user's actions after viewing or clicking on an ad, to measure its effectiveness, to avoid showing you advertising you have already seen and so we, and our partners, can show you more relevant ads based on content you have viewed on the site. | 13 months |
| _pubcid | This cookie is used to make advertisement on the website more relevant. It collects data based on the visitor’s behaviour and optimize the website. | Never |
| __eoi | Used for security purposes by AdSense, AdSense for Search, Display & Video 360, Google Ad Manager, Google Ads | 180 days |
| __gads | Google advertising cookie set on the website's domain (unlike the other Google advertising cookies that are set on doubleclick.net domain). The cookie "serves purposes such as measuring interactions with the ads on that domain and preventing the same ads from being shown to you too many times". | 365 days |
| __gpi | Used by Google advertising services | 390 days |