ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON COOKIES
New EU Regulations
The latest Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 came into effect on 26th May 2011. This obliges us to provide clear information about cookies and our use of them. Where deemed not 'strictly necessary', we must gain your consent before storing cookies.
Taking steps towards full compliance, we have audited our cookie use and restructed our websites to ease our own, and your own management there-of. We are currently investigating an acceptable analytics solution that abides by the new regulations without losing any of the essential functionality analytics offers us. Please read the information on this page carefully & check our Privacy Policy regularly ahead of the 26th May 2012 deadline.
About cookies
A cookie is a small, inert text file which is stored on your local device. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual and can help analyse traffic to and from pages. A web application can also tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your registered account(s) and preferences. You can find out more about cookies by visiting http://allaboutcookies.org
Managing cookies
Your browser will typically manage cookies on your behalf. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. It is also common for a browser to let you view & delete individual cookies. Further details can be found at http://allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies. Note that declining cookies can prevent you from taking full-advantage of a website.
Cookies for managing your visit
| Name & Content | Purpose | Expiry |
| ASPSESSIONIDxxx Value: Randomly generated Session ID |
An essential cookie that we set on your arrival. This helps our Website to handle every page and file request. It is also used to provide user-specific functions in the Nearside Signal Selector Enquiry, AGD Online Account area and as-such authorising Livewire software downloads. Without this cookie our service to you would be inefficient and the user-specific functions above will not function as intended. |
i) when you close your browser. ii) when your visit has been inactive for 20minutes. iii) when you logout of the AGD Online Account area |
Cookies for improving our service
We currently use Google Analytics to help us understand how our website is being accessed. These four 1st-party cookies collect data about how you found our website, which pages you visited and how long you stayed on our pages.
We cannot personally identify you from the data collected, nor can we access your computer or any personal information about you. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes to tailor our website to customer needs.
Further information about Google Analytics can be found at http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.html
| Cookie Name | Content | Expiry |
| _utma | Randomly generated content | 2 years from set/update |
| _utmb | Randomly generated content | 30minutes from set/update |
| _utmc | Randomly generated content | when you close your browser |
| _utmz | Randomly generated content and information on how the site was reached (e.g. direct or through link or organic search or paid search) | 6 months from set/update |
A global-opt out of all Google Analytics cookies can be found at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
