What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your devices when you visit our website via internet browsers. Our use of cookies is to primarily help enhance your user experience and improve the efficiency of our website.
What cookies do we use?
Essential cookies – These make our websites work and provide the basic functions of the website.
Performance cookies – Performance cookies also allow us to see if there are any technical issues on our websites and if you are experiencing any issues using our websites. We use Analytics cookies to help us understand how you use our services. They also allow us to look at usage statistics and performance.
Targeting cookies – We use these types of cookies and similar technologies to provide adverts that we think may be more relevant to your interests. This can be based on your browsing activity and is known as Online Behavioural Advertising or OBA. Cookies are placed on your browser, which remembers what websites you’ve been to. Advertising based on what you have been viewing is then displayed.
Types of cookies
If the cookie comes from our site it is a first party cookie. If it comes from another site, such as our marketing services or ad technology providers or business partners, it is a third party cookie, specifically chosen by us to provide a service, such as a more personalised visit for example from our website service providers, advertising partners and social media service providers.
How long do cookies last?
Different cookies can last for different lengths of time.
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Persistent cookies consist of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). Persistent or tracking cookies are employed to store user preferences and allow to customize how we present information through site layouts or themes.
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Session cookies are used by the server to store information about user page activities only during a session and will expire when the web browser is closed.
The table below explains what cookies we use on our websites and why. These websites include:
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chathamhouse.org
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circulareconomy.earth
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americas.chathamhouse.org
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eliteperceptions.chathamhouse.org
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accelerator.chathamhouse.org
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resourcetrade.earth
For careers.chathamhouse.org please see our separate cookie notice here.
Table of cookies we use and why:
Cookie / Technology |
Cookie name |
Cookie description |
Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
(Analytics) |
_ga, _gid,_ga_#,_gat,_gaexp,_dc_gtm_UA-# |
These cookies:
- register a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
- are used by Google Analytics to collect data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit.
- are used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.
- store ID’s of experiments and sessions for A/B testing.
- are used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag
- track User ID which connects users across different sessions on various devices and platforms. Opt-out from this tracking is via opting out of performance tracking in the cookie settings.
Approximate expiration – 1 day, 90 days, 2 years.
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LinkedIn
(Marketing) |
lidc, li_mc, lms_ads, AnalyticsSyncHistory, UserMatchHistory, li_gc, lms_analytics, liap, lang, bcookie
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These cookies:
- facilitate data center selection.
- are used as a temporary cache to avoid database lookups 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.
- are used to identify LinkedIn Members in the Designated Countries for advertising and analytics.
- are used to store information about the time a sync with the lms_analytics cookie took place for users in the Designated Countries.
- For LinkedIn Ads ID syncing.
- are used to store consent of guests regarding the use of cookies for non-essential purposes.
- are used by non-www.domains to denote the logged in status of a member.
- are used by LinkedIn HelpCenter Live Chat to store language and chat start timestamp.
- for browser Identifier cookie to uniquely identify devices accessing LinkedIn to detect abuse on the platform.
- are used to help provide you with personalised adverts and remarketing adverts.
Approximate expiration – session, 1 day, 1 month, 1 year, 2 years. |
Facebook
(Marketing)
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oo, sb, _fbp, datr
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These cookies:
- help you opt out of seeing ads from Meta based on your activity on third-party websites.
- store browser details, and track visits across websites.
- identify the web browser being used to connect to Facebook independent of the logged in user.
- are used to help provide you with personalised adverts and remarketing adverts.
Approximate expiration – 3 months, 6 months, 2 years, 5 years.
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YouTube
(Marketing) |
YSC, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, LOGIN_INFO, PREF |
These cookies:
- store and track interaction.
- provide bandwidth estimations.
- store user preferences.
- are used to help provide you with personalised adverts and re-marketing adverts.
Approximate expiration – session, 6 months, 2 years.
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Hotjar
(Analytics) |
hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress, _hjFirstSeen, _hjIncludedInPageviewSample, _hjIncludedInSessionSample, _hjSession_#, _hjSessionUser_#, _hjTLDTest |
These cookies:
- determine if the visitor has visited the website before, or if it is a new visitor on the website.
- detect whether the user navigation and interactions are included in the website’s data analytics.
- register data on visitors’ website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization.
- collect statistics on the visitor’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read.
Approximate expiration – session, 1 day, 1 year.
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Civic
(Necessary) |
CookieControl |
This cookie determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry.
Approximate expiration – 3 months.
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Cloudflare
(Necessary)
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__cflb, __cf_bm, cf_ob_info, cf_use_ob, __cfwaitingroom, __cfruid, _cfuvid, cf_clearance
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These cookies are used to maximize network resources, manage traffic, and protect our site from malicious traffic.
Approximate expiration – session, 30 minutes, 30 seconds.
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Website
(Necessary) |
last_visited, what-intent |
These cookies enable website functionality and determine the device used to access the website. This allows the website to be formatted accordingly.
Approximate expiration – session, 3 months.
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Consent to use cookies and managing cookies settings
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are essential to the operation of the Site. Essential cookies enable core functionality such as page navigation and access to secure areas. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and they can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences.
To set all other cookies, we need your permission. Consent for non-essential cookies is sought when you first access the Site and can be managed via the Cookie settings link in the footer of our Site. You can follow that link to turn these cookies off.
You can also manage which cookies you receive via your web browser. Most browsers have built in privacy settings that provide differing levels of cookie acceptance, expiration time, and disposal. can set your browser settings not to accept cookies - please follow your browser provider’s instructions to do so.
You can find more information about cookies, including how to manage and delete them, at www.aboutcookies.org, www.allaboutcookies.org or www.civicuk.com/cookie-control/browser-settings. However, please note that some of our Site features may not function as a result of removing cookies.
If you would like to know more about what cookies we use on our site, please get in touch.