Cookie Policy
Use of cookies on IPL’s Supplier Portal Website.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
What Cookies are in use on the Supplier Portal?
| Cookie Name | Default expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | 2 years | These Google Analytics cookies are used to collect information about the website traffic and performance of the Supplier Portal. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Supplier Portal. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. The information we collect may be used to create groups of users based on behaviour to improve the efficiency and relevance of the content of the Supplier Portal Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data |
| _gid | 24 hours | |
| _ga_<container-id> | 2 years | |
| _gac_gb_<container-id> | 90 days | |
| CookieControl | 90 days | We use cookies provided by Cookie Control to control user consent for the use of cookies on users computers in order to ensure that we comply with UK and EU law on cookies |
| ApplicationGatewayAffinity | End of the user’s browser session | This cookie is used by Azure (web hosting) to register which server-cluster is serving the user of the Supplier Portal. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimise the user experience |
| ApplicationGatewayAffinityCORS | End of the user’s browser session | This cookie is used in context with load balancing - this optimises the response rate between the user and the Supplier Portal, by distributing the traffic load on multiple network links or servers |
| SESS<session-id> | After 30 minutes of inactivity by the user | Provides the session for logged in users accessing the private area of the Supplier Portal |
How do I change my cookie settings?
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon, located at the bottom left-hand side of the page. You can then adjust the available slider to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save and close’ .You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Opera
Apple Safari
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website
To opt out of tracking by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout