Cookies Policy and Procedure
This policy was approved by APIE Board of Trustees on 26th June 2026.
This policy will be reviewed in June 2029.
Who is covered by this policy?
Website visitors
Statement
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
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Make our website work as you would expect.
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Improve the speed/security of the site.
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Continuously improve our website for you.
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Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do).
We do not use cookies to:
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Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission).
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Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission).
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Pass data to advertising networks.
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Pass personally identifiable data to third parties.
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Pay sales commissions.
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You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
Granting us permission to use cookies
Our cookie banner will show at the bottom of every page until you accept or reject setting cookies. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so may mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
Cookies set by this website
Cookie name: XSRF-TOKEN
Purpose: Cookie for fraud detection of calls
Duration: Session
Cookie type; Essential
Cookie name: hs
Purpose: Security Cookie for Hive (legacy)
Duration: Session
Cookie type; Essential
Cookie name: svSession
Purpose: Cookie for security, stability, and core site function
Duration: 12 months
Cookie type: Essential
Cookie name: SSR-caching
Purpose: Performance cookie for rendering
Duration: 24 hours
Cookie type: Essential
Cookie name: TS*
Purpose: Cookies for attack detection
Duration: Session
Cookie type: Essential
Cookie name; bSession
Purpose: Used for system effectiveness measurement
Duration: 24 hours
Cookie type: Essential
Cookie name: fedops.logger.sessionId
Purpose: Tracking session errors and issues (resilience)
Duration: 12 months
Cookie type: Essential
Cookie name: _wixAB3|*
Purpose: Cookie for site experiments
Duration: 6 months
Cookie type: Essential
Cookie name: server-session-bind
Purpose: Cookie for API protection
Duration: Session
Cookie type: Essential
Cookie name: client-session-bind
Purpose: Cookie for API protection
Duration: Session
Cookie type: Essential
Cookie name: oAuthState
Purpose: Session cookie for identification
Duration: Session
Cookie type: Essential
Cookie name: wixSession
Purpose: Cookie for security, stability, and core site function
Duration: 12 months
Cookie type: Essential
Cookie name: sec-fetch-unsupported
Purpose: Used to indicate browser limitations preventing the enabling of site security features
Website function and our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work. There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video.
Disabling these cookies may break the functions offered by these third parties.
Visitor statistics cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These analytics programs also tell us how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We cannot use analytics cookies to identify you, however we cannot know, nor be held responsible for how third party suppliers use their own cookies.
Turning cookies off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. See our list of handy links:
Denying cookies will likely limit the functionality of a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to spyware. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.
This was approved by the APIE Board of Trustees on 26th June 2026.
It is due for review in June 2029.