Cookies Policy

When you read about Womble Bond Dickinson on this website, we are either referring to our international combination, Womble Bond Dickinson (International) Limited or one of its member firms, Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP and Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP, each of which is a separately constituted and regulated legal entity. Womble Bond Dickinson (International) Limited does not practise law. This policy applies to the UK website only (the Site).

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computing device when you visit a website and may be used to enable websites to run effectively or to identify your device whenever you return to a website. Cookies can be set by the owner of the website (first party cookies) or in some cases by third party services the website owner allows to present information, run content or provide other functionality on the website, such as analytics (third party cookies). Session cookies expire at the end of a user's browsing session (usually when a user exits their browser). Persistent cookies are stored on the user's device for a longer period and in between sessions.

Why are cookies used on this Site?

Our Site uses cookies to enable certain functionality, understand how our website is used and for targeted advertising purposes. These cookies may be read by third parties and other websites you visit. We also share information about your use of our website with our analytics partners. These cookies may be read by third parties and other websites you visit. The types of cookies we currently use on our Site are set out below. We use the term cookies to describe cookies and other technologies that operate in a similar way.

Telling us about your cookie preferences

You can change your cookie preferences at any time when the cookie banner pops up or by clicking on the ‘C’ icon in the bottom right hand corner of the home page. You can accept all the categories of cookies used on the Site by clicking on the 'Accept Settings' button or reject all cookies (except the 'strictly necessary' cookies) by clicking the 'Reject Settings' button. Alternatively, you can adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’ to indicate your preference for each cookie category. Your preferences are automatically saved once you close the cookie banner by clicking the 'close' button at the bottom of the pop-up. Please refer to the table below for more information about the cookies used on this Site.

You can also use your browser settings to manage your cookie preferences at any time. While you can still visit and browse this Site if you block or remove cookies, the functionality and performance of the website may be impaired as a result and you may be prevented from using certain services provided through the Site. This Site will not store non-strictly necessary cookies on your device without your permission. For more information on how to manage cookies on popular browsers, please see the links below:

Categories of cookies

This Site uses the following categories of cookies. Please note that some cookies appear in more than one category and where this is the case, reference will be replicated across the appropriate categories.

Cookie category

Details

Strictly necessary

These cookies are essential to make the Site function properly. They are essential to enable the user to move around the Site and use its features. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the service that you have requested. This Site uses strictly necessary cookies to remember cookie preferences you have previously made.

Performance

Performance cookies allow us to update this Site to cater for Site user preferences and improve performance. They collect information about how this Site is used (for example, which pages users visit most often and where error messages are delivered). These cookies don't collect information that identifies individuals. All information is aggregated and anonymous.

This Site uses performance cookies to:

  • provide statistics on how this Site is used (including selections that you have made and services that you have viewed, during your use of this Site)
  • gather non-user specific technical data regarding usage of this Site and provide statistics on how our Site is used;
  • help us improve this Site by measuring any errors that occur; and test different designs of our Site.

Functional

Functional cookies allow this Site to remember choices you make, and any customisations you make to Site pages during your visit. These are used to provide features and services specific to individual users.

This Site uses functional cookies to: fulfil a request by a user, such as using social media to share content on this Site; and remember the selected country/location and language.

Analytical

We use Google Analytics cookies to understand how users engage with our Site. We use these cookies to collect information and report Site usage statistics. We use these cookies to compile reports and to help us improve the Site. The cookies collect certain information, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from geographically and the pages they have visited, the devices and browsers the visitor is using. You will find more information about what each of the cookies used for this purpose does in the Analytical table below.

Advertising

Advertising cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to user interests. These cookies are usually third-party cookies.

This Site uses advertising cookies:

  • to collect browsing habits in order to target relevant adverts to the users on other websites. This is called remarketing;
  • in conjunction with a service implemented by the Site to increase functionality such as adding a site to the user’s social network and providing maps
  • to gather social media advertising analytics. You will find more information about what each of the cookies used for this purpose does in the Advertising and Social media table below.

Social media

These cookies allow you to 'Like' or share our content site on social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter where we have included 'Like' or sharing buttons on our Site.

The privacy implications for this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

We also use social media cookies to gather advertising analytics. You will find more information about what each of the cookies used for this purpose does in the Advertising and Social media table below.

What are the specific cookies used on the Site?

Strictly necessary

Cookie name

Provider

Purpose

Category

Duration

First party or third party cookie?

Session or persistent?

s

Civic

This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on Site. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.

Strictly necessary

Two months

First

Persistent

SPSE

Womble Bond Dickinson (Stackpath)

Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor.

Strictly necessary

Session

First

Session

spcsrf

Womble Bond Dickinson (Stackpath)

. Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor.

Strictly necessary

Session

First

Session

Performance

Cookie name

Provider

Purpose

Category

Duration

First party or third party cookie?

Session or persistent?

SPSI

Womble Bond Dickinson

(Stackpath)

Sets a unique ID for the session.
This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes.

Performance

Session

First

Session

ad0tr

Womble Bond Dickinson

(Stackpath)

Used in order to detect spam and improve the websites security. Does not store visitor specific data.

Performance

Session

First

Session

sp_lit

Womble Bond Dickinson

(Stackpath)

Used in order to detect spam and improve the websites security. Does not store visitor specific data.

Performance

Session

First

Session

Functional

Cookie name

Provider

Purpose

Category

Duration

First party or third party cookie?

Session or persistent?

wbd_current_language

Womble Bond Dickinson

Temporary cookie submitted when user switches country through the website location picker. The cookie temporarily stores the currently selected language, to stop the redirecting on the homepage based on the ‘wbd_country_code’ cookie.

Functional

Session

First

Session

wbd_country_code

Womble Bond Dickinson

Detects and stores which language the user has selected.

Functional

Two months

First

Session

Analytical

Cookie name

Provider

Purpose

Category

Duration

First party or third party cookie?

Session or persistent?

_ga

Womble Bond Dickinson (Google Analytics)

Used to distinguish users.

Analytical

Two years

First

Persistent

_gat

Womble Bond Dickinson (Google Analytics)

Used to throttle request rate.

Analytical

Session

First

Session

_gid

Womble Bond Dickinson (Google Analytics)

Used to distinguish users.

Analytical

24 hours

First

Persistent

_ga_<container-id>

Womble Bond Dickinson (GA4)

Used to persist session state.

Analytical

Two years

First

Persistent

_gac_gb_<container-id>

Womble Bond Dickinson (GA4)

Contains campaign related information.

Analytical

90 days

First

Session

cebs

Womble Bond Dickinson (Crazy Egg)

Used to track the current user session internally.

Analytical

Session

First

Session

_ce.s

Womble Bond Dickinson (Crazy Egg)

Track a recording visitor session unique ID, tracking host and start time.

Analytical

One year

First

Persistent

cebsp

Womble Bond Dickinson (Crazy Egg)

 Used to determine if a survey should be shown.

Analytical

Session

First

Session

visitor_id<accountid>-hash

info.womblebonddickinson.com

(Pardot)

The visitor hash cookie contains the account ID and stores a unique hash. This cookie is a security measure to make sure that a malicious user can’t fake a visitor and access corresponding prospect information.

Analytical

One year

First

Persistent

Advertising and social media

Cookie name

Provider

Purpose

Category

Duration

First party or third party cookie?

Session or persistent?

_ga

Womble Bond Dickinson (Google Analytics)

Used to distinguish users.

Analytical

Two years

First

Persistent

_gat

Womble Bond Dickinson (Google Analytics)

Used to throttle request rate.

Analytical

Session

First

Session

_gid

Womble Bond Dickinson (Google Analytics)

Used to distinguish users.

Analytical

24 hours

First

Persistent

_ga_<container-id>

Womble Bond Dickinson (GA4)

Used to persist session state.

Analytical

Two years

First

Persistent

_gac_gb_<container-id>

Womble Bond Dickinson (GA4)

Contains campaign related information.

Analytical

90 days

First

Session

cebs

Womble Bond Dickinson (Crazy Egg)

Used to track the current user session internally.

Analytical

Session

First

Session

_ce.s

Womble Bond Dickinson (Crazy Egg)

Track a recording visitor session unique ID, tracking host and start time.

Analytical

One year

First

Persistent

cebsp

Womble Bond Dickinson (Crazy Egg)

 Used to determine if a survey should be shown.

Analytical

Session

First

Session

visitor_id<accountid>-hash

info.womblebonddickinson.com

The visitor hash cookie contains the account ID and stores a unique hash. For example, the cookie name visitor_id12345-hash stores the hash “855c3697d9979e78ac404c4ba2c66533”, and the account ID is 12345. This cookie is a security measure to make sure that a malicious user can’t fake a visitor and access corresponding prospect information.

Analytical

One year

First

Persistent

_fbp

Womble Bond Dickinson (Facebook)

Is used to distinguish and keep track of unique users.

Analytical

Three months

First

Persistent

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

YouTube

To track visitor views of YouTube videos embedded in the Site. These cookies may also be used for remarketing.

Analytical

Eight months

Third

Persistent

li_alerts

LinkedIn

Used to track impressions of LinkedIn alerts, such as the cookies banner and to implement cool off periods for display of alerts.

Analytical

One year

Third

Persistent

bscookie

LinkedIn

Used for remembering that a logged in user is verified by two factor authentication. 

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

lidc

LinkedIn

To facilitate data centre selection.

Analytical

24 hours

Third

Persistent

aam_uuid

LinkedIn

Set for ID sync for Adobe Audience Manager.

Analytical

30 days

Third

Persistent

AMVCS_xxxxx

LinkedIn

This cookie serves as a flag indicating that the session has been initialised.

Analytical

 Session

Third

 Session

AMCV_xxxxxx

LinkedIn

Set and store a unique ID for your site visitors.

Analytical

 Two years

Third

 Persistent

lms_analytics

LinkedIn

Used to identify LinkedIn Members off LinkedIn for analytics.

Analytical

30 days

Third

Persistent

JSESSIONID

LinkedIn

Used for Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection.

Analytical

session

Third

Session

AnalyticsSyncHistory

LinkedIn

Used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie.

Analytical

30 days

Third

Persistent

liap

LinkedIn

Used by non-www.domains to denote the logged in status of a member

Analytical

One year

Third

Persistent

bcookie

LinkedIn

Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely  identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform.

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

lang

LinkedIn

Used to remember a user's language setting to ensure LinkedIn.com displays in the language selected by the user in their settings.

Analytical

Two years

Third

Session

li_theme

LinkedIn

Remembers a user's display preference/theme setting.

Analytical

Six months

Third

Persistent

li_mc

LinkedIn

Used as a temporary cache to avoid databaselookups for a member's consent for use of non-essential cookies and used for having consent information on the client side to enforce consent on the client side.

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

_guid

LinkedIn

Used to identify a LinkedIn Member for advertising through Google Ads.

Analytical

90 days

Third

Persistent

li_rm

LinkedIn

Used as part of LinkedIn's Remember Me Feature and is set when a user clicks "Remember me" on their device to make logging in on that device easier.

Analytical

One year

Third

Persistent

li_gc

LinkedIn

Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. 

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

UserMatchHistory

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Ads ID syncing.

Analytical

30 days

Third

Persistent

timezone

LinkedIn

Used to determine user's timezone.

Analytical

14 days

Third

Persistent

fr

Facebook

Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies.

Analytical

Two months

Third

Persistent

xs

Facebook

Used to keep you logged in as you navigate between Facebook Pages. 

Analytical

One year

Third

Persistent

datr

Facebook

Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies.

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

sb

Facebook

Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies.

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

c_user

Facebook

The c_user cookie contains the user ID of the currently logged in user.

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

SAPISID

.google.co.uk

These cookies are used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites, and enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube.

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

SID

.google.co.uk

Google Ads optimisation, to provide delivery or retargeting, provide fraud prevention.

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

APISID

.google.com

These cookies are used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites.

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

HSID

.google.com

These cookies are used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites.

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

SSID

.google.co.uk

These cookies are used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites.

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

guest_id

Twitter

This cookie is set by Twitter to identify and track the website visitor.

Analytical

Six months

Third

Persistent

ct0

Twitter

This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media.

Analytical

Session

Third

Session

gt

Twitter

This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for the social media.

Analytical

2 hours

Third

Persistent

CONSENT

Google

This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website.

Analytical

Two years

Third

Persistent

secure_enid

Google

These cookies are used to remember your preferences and other information.

Analytical

13 months

Third

Persistent

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March 2023