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Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

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The use of cookies is integral to NSG in order to provide the best possible user experience on its websites. Some cookies can be used by us or third parties to identify you when you visit our website or other sites. 

We use the following cookies:

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Third Party Cookies

Please note that third parties may also use cookies on our site, over which we have no control. These third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies.

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You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name Expiry Length Cookie Type Description Source Policy
ASP.NET_SessionId When browser session ends Essential Keeps user session active with the server while retrieving pages from our site, even if deleted preemptively the next page loaded would generate a new session cookie. This site https://botanical.pilkington.com/en/cookie policy
[sitename]_cpolicy Not more than 365 days Essential [sitename]_cpolicy, where [sitename] is the name of the site this cookie is from. It is used to capture and persist the cookie policy selection to ensure the cookie policy prompt doesn't re-occur whilst navigating the site. Cookie persistence will not be greater than a maximum of 365 days, the actual expiry date is likely to be a lot less in practice. This site https://botanical.pilkington.com/en/cookie policy
SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE ~10 years Performance Analytical Enables our content management system to track user interactions on the Site. This site https://botanical.pilkington.com/en/cookie policy
[sitename]#lang When browser session ends Essential [sitename]#lang where [sitename] is the name of the specific site is a cookie used to persist the language of the site between page clicks. Some of our sites and pages can be served with in different languages and this cookie is required to ensure that the content is served in a consistent language to the user. This site https://botanical.pilkington.com/en/cookie policy
_gat 1 minute Performance Analytical Used to throttle request rate to Google Analytics. Google (third party) https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
_ga 2 years Performance Analytical The main cookie used by Google Analytics. ‘_ga’ enables a service to distinguish one user from another. It’s used by any site that implements Google Analytics Google (third party) https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
_gid 1 day Performance Analytical This cookie allocates an ID to a user, so that the web tracker can record the user's actions under this ID Google (third party) https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
_gat_clientTracker 1 minute Functional To read and filter requests from bots. Google (third party) https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
1P_JAR 30 days Targeting, Performance Analytical These cookies are used to collect site statistics and track conversion rates. Google (third party) https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
NID 18 months Targeting, Performance Analytical, Functional Google Security, Analytics, Functionality, Advertising (Google logged in Users only) - This cookie contains a unique ID used to remember your preferences and other information such as your preferred language, how many search results you prefer to have shown on a results page (for example, 10 or 20), and whether you want to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on Google (third party) https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
AEC 6 months Functional Ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. Google (third party) https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
DV 1 day Performance Analytical To provide ad delivery or retargeting. Google (third party) https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies