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. 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 |
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| Social media | These cookies allow you to 'Like' or share our content site on social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook and X 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 | 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 | Used for remembering that a logged in user is verified by two factor authentication. | Analytical | Two years | Third | Persistent | |
| lidc | To facilitate data centre selection. | Analytical | 24 hours | Third | Persistent | |
| aam_uuid | Set for ID sync for Adobe Audience Manager. | Analytical | 30 days | Third | Persistent | |
| AMVCS_xxxxx | This cookie serves as a flag indicating that the session has been initialised. | Analytical | Session | Third | Session | |
| AMCV_xxxxxx | Set and store a unique ID for your site visitors. | Analytical | Two years | Third | Persistent | |
| lms_analytics | Used to identify LinkedIn Members off LinkedIn for analytics. | Analytical | 30 days | Third | Persistent | |
| JSESSIONID | Used for Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection. | Analytical | session | Third | Session | |
| AnalyticsSyncHistory | Used to store information about the time a sync took place with the lms_analytics cookie. | Analytical | 30 days | Third | Persistent | |
| liap | Used by non-www.domains to denote the logged in status of a member | Analytical | One year | Third | Persistent | |
| bcookie | Browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform. | Analytical | Two years | Third | Persistent | |
| lang | 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 | Remembers a user's display preference/theme setting. | Analytical | Six months | Third | Persistent | |
| li_mc | 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 | Used to identify a LinkedIn Member for advertising through Google Ads. | Analytical | 90 days | Third | Persistent | |
| li_rm | 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 | Used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. | Analytical | Two years | Third | Persistent | |
| UserMatchHistory | LinkedIn Ads ID syncing. | Analytical | 30 days | Third | Persistent | |
| timezone | Used to determine user's timezone. | Analytical | 14 days | Third | Persistent | |
| fr | Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies. | Analytical | Two months | Third | Persistent | |
| xs | Used to keep you logged in as you navigate between Facebook Pages. | Analytical | One year | Third | Persistent | |
| datr | Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies. | Analytical | Two years | Third | Persistent | |
| sb | Facebook browser identification, authentication, marketing, and other Facebook-specific function cookies. | Analytical | Two years | Third | Persistent | |
| c_user | 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 | X | This cookie is set by X to identify and track the website visitor. | Analytical | Six months | Third | Persistent |
| ct0 | X | This cookie is set due to X integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. | Analytical | Session | Third | Session |
| gt | X | This cookie is set due to X integration and sharing capabilities for the social media. | Analytical | 2 hours | Third | Persistent |
| CONSENT | 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 | These cookies are used to remember your preferences and other information. | Analytical | 13 months | Third | Persistent |
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August 2024
