TransUnion Information Group Cookie Notice
This document provides information about how we use cookies on our website at www.transunion.co.uk.
1. WHO ARE WE?
This website is operated by TransUnion Information Group Limited, which is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 04968328. Its registered office is at One Park Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS3 1EP.
2. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your device when you browse our website.
3. WHAT DO WE USE COOKIES FOR?
We use cookies and similar technologies to distinguish you from other users of the website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the website and also allows us to personalise and improve the website.
Our cookies are not used to collect information which (by itself) allows us to identify who you are. But if you separately tell us who you are, we may link your identity to the cookies we put on your device so that we can see how you are using the website. We use that information in accordance with the privacy notice that we give you when you tell us who you are.
4. WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?
We use the following kinds of cookie:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of the website.
- Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. They also allow us to tell if you have reached our website from one of our advertising partners so that we can meet our contractual commitments to that partner.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below.
| Service | Cookie Name | Purpose | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Purpose | JSESSIONID | General purpose platform session cookie used by sites written in JSP. Usually used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. | Strictly Necessary |
| General purpose | cookiePerformance cookieTargeting cookieFunctionality cookieConsent | Used to save your existing cookie preferences. | Strictly Necessary |
| Google Analytics | _gid _ga _gat_UA- _utma _utmb _utmc _utmv _utmz | These cookies are associated with Google Universal Analytics and are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they have visited. For further information, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=en | Performance |
| Optimizely | optimizelyEndUserId optimizelyPPID optimizelyDomainTestCookie optimizelyRumLB | These Optimizely cookies allow us to test different versions of website pages to different users at the same time and to track how users navigate around our website. We use this information to test new features and make the website easier to use. For further information, please visit: https://www.optimizely.com/legal/opt-out/ | Performance |
| SiteImprove | __cfduid AWSELB siteimproveses nmstat | These cookies are associated with Siteimprove and are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they have visited. For further information, please visit: https://support.siteimprove.com/hc/en-gb/articles/206345493-Siteimprove-Analytics-cookies | Performance |
| AddThis | __atuvs |
| Functionality |
| Brightcove | _bc_uuid | his cookie is associated with Bright Cove. Brightcove is a Video Hosting Service. For further information, please visit: https://player.support.brightcove.com/references/brightcove-player-cookies.html | Functionality |
| AddThis | uvc __atrfs xtc __atuvc loc | This cookie is associated with the AddThis social sharing widget which is commonly embedded in websites to enable visitors to share content with a range of networking and sharing platforms. For further information, please visit: https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/addthis-privacy-policy.html | Targeting |
| Eloqua | ELQSTATUS ELOQUA SAMESITESET _CG | These Eloqua cookies are used in order to track your use of our website in order to help us improve the performance, content and layout of the website, to personalise the content or design of the website, to better understand which parts of our website you are interested in, and for marketing purposes. The Eloqua cookies may be associated with other data we hold about you, such as your name and email address if you fill in one of our web forms, your IP address, domain name, browser type and operating system. For further information, please visit: https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/marketingcs_gs/OMCAA/Help/SecurityOverview/TrackingWebVisits.htm?Highlight=About%20Cookie%20Tracking | Targeting |
| YouTube | GPS VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE YSC | YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. For further information, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=en | Targeting |
| Doubleclick | test_cookie IDE | This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange. For further information, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/types?hl=en | Targeting |
5. HOW TO CONTROL COOKIES
Strictly necessary cookies are always on when you visit us. On your first visit to us, we’ll ask you to choose which cookies we can use. You can always change your mind by going to your settings.
You can block cookies using your browser settings that allow you to refuse all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access parts of our website or use some of its features.
For more information about this, and about cookies in general, you may wish to visit https://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/.