Niyaa People
Mclaren Building, 12th Floor
46 The Priory Queensway
Birmingham
B4 7LR
In order to make our website simpler to use and improve our service, we sometimes place small amounts of information on your computer. These are known as ‘cookies’ and they are used by most major websites.
Cookies are used to:
In the coming months we will continue to evaluate the cookies used on the site and develop ways to give users control over how cookies are used for their individual sessions.
We use the ASP.NET_SessionId cookie so that once you have logged on with username and password you won’t have to do it for every page you request from our site. Captcha_keystring is used to provide validation on the registration form.
These cookies are classed by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as ‘minimally intrusive’
Name | Typical content | Expires |
ASP.NET_SessionId (random number) | alpha-numeric value | when you close your browser |
Captcha_keystring | alpha-numeric value | 1 day |
This is to ensure that we are providing the best website for all our users. It helps us to understand the level of demand for content on specific pages and to monitor site performance metrics such as page load times.
These cookies are classed by the ICO as ‘minimally intrusive’
For more information, see the Google Analytics Privacy Policy. You can choose to opt out of Google Analytics.
Name | Typical content | Expires |
_utma | randomly generated number | 1 day |
_utmb | randomly generated number | 30 minutes |
_utmc | randomly generated number | when you close your browser |
_utmz | randomly generated number and information on how the site was reached (e.g. direct or via a link, organic search or paid search) | 6 months |
The Google+1 button is a way for you to share information publicly, as part of your Google Profile. Clicking it will be recorded by Google, along with the information about the page you are viewing. This helps you and others receive customised content from Google and its partners.
To find out more about Google +1 see http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/policy/+1button.html
Name | Typical content | Expires |
SID | randomly generated number | 10 years |
APISID | randomly generated number | 10 years |
HSID | randomly generated number | 10 years |
NID | randomly generated number | 6 months |
PREF | randomly generated number and information on how the site was reached (e.g. direct or via a link, organic search or paid search) | 2 years |
Our website contains ‘Share’ buttons to enable visitors to easily share content via email and social websites. When content is shared, AddThis sets cookies to capture visitors sharing preferences for analytics purposes. AddThis is the world’s largest content sharing platform. It gives end users a simple and easy way to share content across the social web, and provides publishers with increased web traffic and in-depth analytics. AddThis is owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies.
These cookies are classed by the ICO as ‘moderately intrusive’
Further information on AddThis’ privacy and data practices can be found on the AddThis website.
Name | Typical content | Expires |
uvc | alpha-numeric value | 2 years |
uit | alpha-numeric value | 2 days |
loc | alpha-numeric value | 4 months |
dt | alpha-numeric value | 1 month |
di | alpha-numeric value | 2 years |
uid | alpha-numeric value | 2 years |
psc | alpha-numeric value | 2 years |
If you are worried about your privacy online we recommend that you use the Firefox browser with the ‘Do not track settings’ enabled.
Find out more at dnt.mozilla.org