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Security Vetting
The Parliamentary Security Vetting portal uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the portal or as part of the security of this site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is put on your computer.
Any cookie that is set will only contain random but unique information which is set to expire when you close the browser. The cookie does not contain any personal or sensitive information.
The cookie information can only be used by the browser when it sends requests for new web pages to the servers - the browser will not allow the cookie to be used for any other purpose. The cookie information will always be protected by strong encryption whenever the content is shared.
The use of these cookies is strictly necessary for the correct and secure operation of the portal.
Cookies which we may set include:
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Cookie name |
Description |
Lifetime |
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__RequestVerificationToken |
Used by the antiforgery system. |
Session |
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Used to identify user sessions. A user session starts when a user browses website for the first time. And ends when the session is closed. Configure authentication can be used to change session expiry time span. |
Session |
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adxPreviewUnpublishedEntities |
Stores preview ON/OFF mode used in classic CMS system for website administrators. |
Session |
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adx-notification |
Used in basic form actions to store alert message to be shown on redirection. |
Session |
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ARRAffinity |
Added automatically by Azure websites and ensures that requests are load balanced between different sites. Doesn't store any of user information. You see either the ARRAffinity or ARRAffinitySameSite cookie depending on your browser. |
Session |
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ASP.NET_SessionId |
Used to maintain the session of a logged in user to avoid repeated sign-in. |
Session |
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ContextLanguageCode |
Stores the default language of the user accessing website within a session and across webpages. The cookie is deleted after session closes. |
Session |
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Dynamics365PortalAnalytics |
Critical service cookie to analyze service usage anonymously and aggregated for statistical purpose. |
90 days |
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isDSTObserved |
Stores a value to indicate if the current moment is in daylight saving time. |
Session |
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isDSTSupport |
Indicates whether a specified date and time falls in the range of daylight saving time. |
Session |
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timeZoneCode |
Stores the timezonecode field value of CRM timezonedefinition table for the current timezone. |
Session |
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timezoneoffset |
Stores the timezone difference between UTC and Local browser time. |
Session |
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PrivateModeLoginCookie |
Used to identify internal maker sessions when site is in private mode. This cookie isn't dropped once site is made public. |
Session |
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OpenIdConnect.nonce.xxxxxx |
Used to associate a Client session with an ID Token, and to mitigate replay attacks. |
Session |
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AspNet.ExternalCookie |
Used to identify user sessions in external sign in scenarios. |
Session |
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WebPageCaching |
This cookie is dropped for sites where the Content Delivery Network is enabled. This cookie helps the CDN to identify if a page needs to be served from CDN cache or from web server. |
One day |