This page outlines the cookie policy for the UK Research and Innovation (‘UKRI’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’) website. Your use of this website is subject to our terms of use.
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. This sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, your computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
Cookies are used to improve services for you, for example by:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you do not have to give the same information during one task
- recognising that you have already given a username and password so you do not need to enter it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and that there is enough capacity to ensure they are fast.
You can learn about cookies and how to manage them (All About Cookies).
For further information on cookies used by this website please contact us.
Email: web@ukri.org
Cookies used on our website
Cookie Control panel cookies
CookieControl
Purpose: to hold setting on whether to allow cookies to be stored or not
Expires: 1 year
Google Analytics cookies
Our website uses Google Analytics. It installs cookies to help us identify errors and accurately estimate visitor numbers. These cookies do not collect personal data about visitors to our website.
_ga
Purpose: used to distinguish users.
Expires: two years
_ga_HPSM59M7J4
Purpose: used to find and track an individual session with your device.
Expires: 400 days
_gat_UA-150290826-1
Purpose: used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.
Expires: one minute
_gat_UA-102208639-1
Purpose: used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.
Expires: one minute
_gid
Purpose: used to distinguish users.
Expires: 24 hours
Siteimprove cookies
nmstat
Purpose: to help record the user’s use of the website to improve the user experience on the website.
It is used to collect statistics about site usage such as when the visitor last visited the site.
It is also used to track the sequence of pages a user looks at during a visit to the site. This information can be used to reduce user journeys, and enable visitors to find relevant information quicker.
This Siteimprove Analytics cookie contains a randomly generated ID used to recognize the browser when a visitor reads a page. The cookie contains no personal information and is used only for web analytics.
Expires: 1000 days
AWSALB / AWSALBCORS
Purpose: to ensure that all page views for the same user session are sent to the same endpoint. This enables us to determine the sequence of a user’s page views needed for features like Behaviour Tracking and Funnels.
Expires: seven days
Hotjar Cookies
Hotjar is a technology service used by UKRI that helps us better understand our users’ experience. For example:
- how much time they spend on particular pages
- which pages they spend most time on
- which links they choose to click
- what users do and do not like.
This enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback.
Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data relating to our users’ behaviour and their devices. This includes:
- screen size
- device type (unique device identifiers)
- browser information.
Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymised user profile.
Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.
Relating to the user
_hjSessionUser_{site_id}
A Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
Expires: 365 days
JSON
_hjHasCachedUserAttributes
A cookie that enables Hotjar to know whether the data set in _hjUserAttributes Local Storage item is up to date or not.
Expires: session
Boolean true/false
_hjUserAttributesHash
A cookie that enables Hotjar to know when any User Attribute has changed and needs to be updated.
Expires: 2 minutes, extended every 30 seconds
Hash
_hjUserAttributes
A local storage item that stores User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API.
Expires: no explicit expiration
Base64 encoded JSON
hjViewportId
A session storage item that stores the user viewport details such as size and dimensions.
Expires: session
UUID
hjActiveViewportsIDs
A local storage item that stores the user active viewports IDs.
Expires: stores an expirationTimestamp that is used to validate active viewports on script initialization
JSON
Relating to session
_hjSession_{site_id}
This cookie holds the current session data. It ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session.
Expires: 30 minutes, extended on user activity
JSON
_hjCookieTest
This cookie is used to check if the Hotjar Cookie Tracking code can use cookies. If it can, a value of 1 is set in this cookie. The data stored in _hjCookieTest is deleted almost immediately after it is created.
Expires: under 100ms duration, cookie expiration time set to session duration
Boolean true/false
_hjLocalStorageTest
This cookie is used to check if the Hotjar tracking script can use Local Storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set in this cookie. The data stored in _hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created.
Expires: under 100ms
Boolean true/false
_hjSessionStorageTest
This cookie is used to if the Hotjar tracking script can use Session Storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set in this cookie. The data stored in _hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created.
Expires: under 100ms
Boolean true/false
_hjTLDTest
When the Hotjar script executes, we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This way cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable).
To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.
Expires: session
Boolean true/false
Relating to feedback tool
_hjShownFeedbackMessage
A Hotjar cookie that is set when a user minimises or completes incoming feedback so that it will load as minimised immediately if the user navigates to another page on which it is set to show.
Expires: 365 days
Boolean true/false
Additional cookies for UKRI funding service users
We use the following cookies to track usage and authenticate users in our new funding service for applicants.
Tracking cookies
These cookies are deployed if the user accepts cookies.
allow_all_cookies
Purpose: to track whether you have accepted our cookie policy. It is automatically cleared every 30 days.
Expires: 30 days
_gid
Purpose: used by Google Analytics to track users’ journeys through the service to improve their experience.
Expires: one day
_gat_UA_XXXXXX
Purpose: used by Google Analytics to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high-traffic-volume websites.
Expires: one minute
_ga
Purpose: used by Google Analytics to uniquely identify users.
Expires: two years
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the service to operate and are always used.
ukri-tfs-local-session
Purpose: to authenticate users on our service and allow them to remain signed in.
Expires: 25 minutes
Last updated: 6 March 2024