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List of cookies that measure website use
Name Purpose Expires
_ga This helps us count how many people visit wra.gov.wales by tracking if you’ve visited before 2 years
_gid This helps us count how many people visit wra.gov.wales by tracking if you’ve visited before 24 hours
_gat Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made 1 hour

Performance cookies

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List of performance cookies
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ai_user This is used to distinguish users 1 year

Strictly necessary cookies

We need these essential cookies to make our online services work. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver our services they always need to be on.

List of necessary cookies
Name Purpose Expires
TmsCookieControl Records whether the cookies notification pop-up has been acknowledged by the user 1 year
ARRAffinity Used to link a client to an instance of an Azure Web Application Session
ApplicationGatewayAffinity This cookie is used by Azure Applications to keep a user session on the same server Session
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AspNetCore.Antiforgery This cookie helps to protect against cross-site request forgery attacks Session
AspNetCore.Culture Used to determine the correct language version of the service 1 year
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AspNetCore.Cookies This cookie is used in the user authentication process Session
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