Cookie policy
What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website.
Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. They do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience.
Our website cookies do not collect personally identifiable information.
You can change your Point cookie preferences at any time by selecting the “Cookie preferences” button at the bottom left of all screens. Or you can use your browser settings to block cookies if you want to.
Cookies we use
We have listed below the core and optional cookies used depending on how the Directory is configured. Core cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features.
Managing your current visit:
- Name: ASP.NET_SessionId
- Purpose: Stores the user’s session ID to allow the site to recognise your movement around the site as being from one computer.
- Data stored by cookie: Information about the user’s current session.
- Duration of cookie: Expires at the end of the session (when you close your browser).
- More information: Without this cookie, much of the website’s functionality would be impaired, such as searching and filtering results, navigation breadcrumbs, etc.
Managing your shortlist:
- Name: Shortlist
- Purpose: Records the services the user has added to their shortlist.
- Data stored by cookie: The IDs of the services in the shortlist.
- Duration of cookie: 1 year.
- More information: Without this cookie the user would not be able to add services to their shortlist or have them be persisted there between visits to the site.
Third Party Cookies:
- Name: player.vimeo.com
- Purpose: Vimeo’s embeddable video player uses first-party cookies that we consider essential to the video player experience.
- Duration of cookie: Expires at the end of the session (when you close your browser).
- More information: Without this cookie, much of the website’s functionality would be impaired, such as searching and filtering results, navigation breadcrumbs, etc.
