Cookies

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded onto your device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit our website. It allows us to recognise your device and store some information about your visit or past actions.

Why do we ask to put cookies on your device?

By aggregating data from all our website visitors, we can better understand what content our visitors find useful and what content needs to be improved. By allowing cookies onto your device you are helping us continually improve the NIHR websites for everyone.

Do you collect and can you see my personal data?

No. We don’t collect, store, or process any personal data. We only see anonymised, aggregated data.

What types of cookie do we use?

Strictly Necessary (Functional) cookies – these are needed to make the website work.
Performance cookies – to give us insight into how people use our content and help us improve it.
Targeting cookies – for example when you interact with a Youtube video on our pages, Youtube places a number of cookies on your device. From time-to-time we track the performance of our social media campaigns and may place a cookie on your device to help do this.

Can I decline or customise which cookies I accept?

Yes. With the exception of strictly necessary, functional, cookies that make the site work, you can do this at any time using the cookie icon banner to change your choices. The cookie icon can be found on the bottom left of your screen.

Precisely which cookies do we use, what do they do and how long do they stay on my device?

We’ve listed below the cookies used on the main NIHR corporate website, the NIHR Funding & Awards and NIHR Journals Library websites.

We use a third-party specialist product developed by OneTrust Inc to audit our webpages for cookies. We use their scans to ensure that we are transparent about which cookies we use.

Embedded YouTube video content

We use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode to show embedded video content. We do this so that viewing an embedded Youtube video on our website will not be used to personalise your YouTube browsing experience, either within the embedded player, or in your subsequent YouTube viewing on the same device.

Google signals

We use a feature called Google Signals to collect and understand data from our website visitors who sign in to their Google accounts and choose to see personalised ads. This feature helps us to see how you use different devices, such as phones or computers, to access our website. The data we collect through Google Signals includes things like your location, your searches, your YouTube activity, and your visits to other websites that work with Google. We use this data for the following purposes:

To better understand our audience and their demographics, and to tailor our communications to suit your interests and needs.
To help our Global Health team know where you are based and how we can reach you through different devices.
To help our Campaigns Team improve the impact and relevance of our Google ads by using cross-device insights and personalised ads.

We use this data in a way that supports our mission to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research. You can always opt out of Google Signals by visiting the Ads Settings page or by adding the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. If you want to know more about how Google uses your data, please see Google’s Privacy Policy.

Which websites are covered by this policy?

The NIHR corporate website: www.nihr.ac.uk

Cookies on the NIHR.AC.UK website

Necessary Cookies

Cookie name: cookieyes-consent

Cookie duration: 1 year
Cookie description: CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users’ consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information about the site visitors.

Functional Cookies

Cookie name: yt-remote-device-id

Cookie duration: Never Expires
Cookie description: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos.

Cookie name: ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY

Cookie duration: Never Expires
Cookie description: The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future.

Cookie name: yt-remote-connected-devices

Cookie duration: Never Expires
Cookie description: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s video preferences using embedded YouTube videos.

Cookie name: yt-remote-session-app

Cookie duration: session
Cookie description: The yt-remote-session-app cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences and information about the interface of the embedded YouTube video player.

Cookie name: yt-remote-cast-installed

Cookie duration: session
Cookie description: The yt-remote-cast-installed cookie is used to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Cookie name: yt-remote-session-name

Cookie duration: session
Cookie description: The yt-remote-session-name cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

Cookie name: yt-remote-fast-check-period

Cookie duration: session
Cookie description: The yt-remote-fast-check-period cookie is used by YouTube to store the user’s video player preferences for embedded YouTube videos.

Analytics Cookies

Cookie name: _ga_*

Cookie duration: 1 year 1 month 4 days
Cookie description: Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.

Cookie name: _ga

Cookie duration: 1 year 1 month 4 days
Cookie description: Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors.

Advertisement Cookies

Cookie name: YSC

Cookie duration: session
Cookie description: Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages.

Cookie name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Cookie duration: 6 months
Cookie description: YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface.

Cookie name: VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA

Cookie duration: 6 months
Cookie description: YouTube sets this cookie to store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain.

Cookie name: yt.innertube::requests

Cookie duration: Never Expires
Cookie description: YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

Cookie name: yt.innertube::nextId

Cookie duration: Never Expires
Cookie description: YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

Uncategorised Cookies

Cookie name: __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN

Cookie duration: 6 months
Cookie description: Related to Youtube embeded videos.