Cookie notice
ITV PLC (“we”, “us”, “our”)
Our website (www.itvplc.com) uses cookies and other similar tracking technologies, such as pixels, plugins, scripts, tags and device fingerprinting (which we collectively refer to as "cookies" in this Cookie Notice).
We use cookies for many reasons, for example 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 website.
This Cookie Notice describes:
- what cookies are;
- our use of cookies;
- how you can manage cookies used on our website;
- privacy;
- further information; and
- changes to this Cookie Notice.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer, smart phone, tablet or other electronic device. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device's hard drive and some cookies may collect personal data about you. You can find more general information about cookies at: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.Our use of cookies
We want you to understand the different types of cookies that are used on our website. These may be set by us, or by third parties who provide functionality embedded in or connected to our website. We use a variety of types of cookies for the following purposes:- Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies strictly necessary for the performance of our website, for example cookies that enables website content to be delivered securely and efficiently.
- Non-essential cookies, which will include
- Performance cookies: these cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our 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.
- Functionality cookies: these cookies 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 (for example, your choice of language or region).
You can find more information about the individual non-essential cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Name | Description | Category | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWSALB | AWS ELB application load balancer | Strictly necessary | 6 days |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. | Strictly necessary | 6 days |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. | Strictly necessary | 0 days |
| __Secure-1PSIDTS | TS | Strictly necessary | 0 days |
| OptanonAlertBoxClosed | This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. | Strictly necessary | 0 days |
| _conv_v | This cookie is the visitor-centric cookie that has a lifetime of max 6 months from the last update time. | Strictly necessary | 0 days |
| _conv_s | Convert AB testing | Strictly necessary | 0 days |
| AWSALB | AWS ELB application load balancer | Strictly necessary | 6 days |
| AWSALBTGCORS | AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: This load-balancing cookie is managed by AWS and is for Weighted Target Groups associated with cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests. | Strictly Necessary | 7 days |
| __CookieConsentV300 | _Cookieconsent cookie is a plugin used to comply with EU guideline | Strictly necessary | 0 day |
| AWSALBTG | The "AWSALBTG" cookie contains a value that identifies the target group to which a user's request has been routed. | Strictly Necessary | 0 day |
| __cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie | Strictly Necessary | 0 day |
| _cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is used by Cloudflare to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address for the purpose of enforcing rate limiting rules. | Strictly Necessary | 1 year |
| _gat | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. | Performance | 1 minute |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | Performance | 1 year |
| _gat_xxxxxxxxxx, _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | Google Analytics Cookies | Performance | 0 day |
| _uetvid | This is a cookie utilised by Microsoft Bing Ads and is a tracking cookie. It allows us to engage with a user that has previously visited our website. | Performance | 0 day |
| _hjid | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | Performance | 0 day |
| _gaexp | Used to determine a user's inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in. | Performance | 0 day |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid | Performance | 0 day |
| _hjIncludedInSessionSample, _hjSessionUser_xxxxxxx, _hjSession_xxxxxxx | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. | Performance | 0 day |
| _gclxxxx | Google conversion tracking cookie | Performance | 0 day |
| _hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that 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. | Performance | 0 day |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. | Performance | 0 day |
| RT | The roundtrip (RT) Boomerang cookie is used by Akamai to measure page load time and/or other timers associated with the page. | Performance | 6 day |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. | Performance | 0 day |
| _hluid | The purpose of the "_hluid" cookie is to uniquely identify users and track their interactions within the Help Scout platform. It helps maintain session information and personalize the user's experience during their support interactions. | Performance | 0 day |
| _lfa | The "_lfa" cookie is associated with the LiveChat service, which is a popular live chat and customer support software used by many websites. | Performance | 0 day |
| _Secure-3PSIDCC | The "_Secure-3PSIDCC" cookie is set when you visit a website that uses Google's advertising services or displays Google ads. | Performance | 0 day |
| _Secure-3PAPISID | The "_Secure-3PAPISID" cookie is associated with Google's advertising services. It is a third-party cookie that is used for tracking and targeted advertising purposes. | Performance | 0 day |
| ANID | The "ANID" cookie is associated with Google's advertising services. It is a third-party cookie used for tracking and targeted advertising purposes. | Performance | 0 day |
| _utmb | The "_utmb" cookie stores a timestamp of when a user arrived on a website, and it's typically set to expire after 30 minutes of inactivity. | Performance | 0 day |
| _hstc | The "_hstc" cookie is used by HubSpot to track website visitors. It helps to identify unique visitors and keep track of their interactions across multiple sessions. | Performance | 0 day |
| _utmc | The "_utmc" cookie was previously used in conjunction with the "_utmb" cookie to determine the duration of a user's visit to a website. | Performance | 0 day |
| AID | The "AID" cookie is set when you visit a website that uses Google's advertising services or displays Google ads. It helps collect information about your browsing behavior and interests across different websites to deliver targeted advertisements.. | Performance | 0 day |
| _utma | The "_utma" cookie is used to distinguish unique visitors to a website. It generates a unique identifier for each user, which is then used to track their interactions and sessions on the website. | Performance | 0 day |
| _ssid | The “SSID” cookie is used to play YouTube videos embedded on the website. | Performance | 0 day |
| _abexps | The "_abexps" cookie is used to store information about the experiments and variations that a user is exposed to during their visit to a website. | Performance | 0 day |
| vuid | These cookies are used by the Vimeo video player on websites. | Marketing | 1 year |
| ajs_anonymous_id | These cookies are generally used for Analytics and help count how many people visit a certain site by tracking if you have visited before. This cookie has a lifespan of 1 year. | Marketing | 0 day |
| 1P_JAR | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | Marketing | 0 day |
| _dlt | This cookie is associated with Google's real time bidding advertising exchange. The main purpose of this cookie is targeting. | Marketing | 0 day |
| PREF | This cookie, which may be set by Google or Doubleclick, may be used by advertising partners to build a profile of interests to show relevant ads on other sites. It works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. | Marketing | 0 day |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers | Marketing | 0 day |
| aam_uuid | This cookie is associated with the Adobe Audience Manager ID - Data Management Platform (DMP). It is used to assign a unique ID when a user visits a website. | Marketing | 0 day |
| APISID | This DoubleClick cookie is generally set through the site by advertising partners, and used by them to build a profile of the website visitor's interests and show relevant ads on other sites. This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. | Marketing | 0 day |
| ajs_user_id | This cookie helps track visitor usage, events, target marketing, and can also measure application performance and stability. Cookies in this domain have lifespan of 1 year. | Marketing | 0 day |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. | Marketing | 0 day |
| anj | This cookie contains data denoting whether a cookie ID is synced with an AppNexus partner. | Marketing | 0 day |
| _D9J | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | Marketing | 0 day |
| ajs_group_id | These cookies track visitor usage and events within the website. Cookies in this domain have lifespan of 1 year. | Marketing | 0 day |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | 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. | Marketing | 5 months |
| 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. | Marketing | 0 day |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 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. | Marketing | 5 months |
| TESTCOOKIESENABLED | 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. | Marketing | 0 day |
| _conv_r | Provided by Convert, this cookie holds the referral data for the current visitor. It is overwritten each time a visitor comes from a new referrer or source. | Marketing | 180 days |
| _qca | This cookie is used to store, and track audience reaches and for marketing and tracking purposes. This anonymous data helps websites to better understand their users' needs and tailor the website accordingly. | Marketing | 0 day |
| _hssc | Provided by Hubspot, is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. This cookie keeps track of sessions. | Marketing | 0 day |
| _hssrc | Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. If this cookie does not exist when HubSpot manages cookies, it is considered a new session. | Marketing | 0 day |
| _utmt | Set by Google Analytics, this cookie is used to throttle the request rate for the service - limiting the collection of data on high-traffic sites. | Marketing | 10 minutes |
| _hmpl | Provided by Hubspot, this cookie is associated with websites built on the HubSpot platform. It collects information on user preferences and/or interaction with web-campaign content – This is used on CRM-campaign-platform used by website owners for promoting events or products | Marketing | 0 day |
| _Secure-3PSID | Used by Google Analytics for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor's interests to show relevant & personalized Google advertising. | Marketing | 2 Years |
| _atuvc | 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. It stores an updated page share count. | Marketing | 2 Years |
How to refuse the use of cookies
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, if you do this you may lose some useful functionality such as personalisation.How to disable cookies in your browser.Privacy
We are committed to using cookies fairly and in accordance with applicable privacy rights. Our Privacy Policy can be accessed here.Further information
If you have any queries relating to this Cookie Notice, please contact us via the email address [email protected] or by writing to us at:
ITV Whitecity
201 Wood Lane
Whitecity
London
W12 7RU
United Kingdom
