Cookies
Published 10 June 2024
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This website uses cookies to keep our service secure, and to remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we do not show them to you again. They are not used to identify you personally.
You will normally see a message on the site before we store a cookie on your computer.
Essential cookies
Essential cookies keep your information secure while you use Certificate of Competency (CoC) website.
You may see a pop-up cookies message when you first visit this service. We will store the following cookie so that your computer knows you have seen it and knows not to show it again.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| CoC.CookiesAccepted | Saves your cookie consent settings | Persistent |
Microsoft Power Apps portal cookies
The website has been delivered using a Microsoft Power Apps Portal, and the following cookies are required to ensure this runs securely.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| __RequestVerificationToken | Used by the antiforgery system. | When the browsing session ends |
| .AspNet.ApplicationCookie | Used to identify user sessions. A user session starts when a user browses portal for the first time and ends when the session is closed. Authentication site settings can be used to change session expiry time span. | When the browsing session ends |
| adxPreviewUnpublishedEntities | Holds preview ON/OFF mode used in classic CMS system for portal administrators. | When the browsing session ends |
| ARRAffinity | Added automatically by Azure websites and ensures that requests are load balanced between different sites. Does not store any user information. | When the browsing session ends |
| ASP.NetSessionId | Used to maintain the session of a logged in user to avoid repeated sign-in. The cookie is not persistent and is deleted after session closes. | When the browsing session ends |
| ContextLanguageCode | Stores the default language of the user accessing portal within a session and across webpages. The cookie is deleted after session closes. | When the browsing session ends |
| Dynamics365PortalAnalytics | Critical service cookie to analyse service usage anonymously and aggregated for statistical purpose. | 90 days |
| isDSTObserved | Stores a value to indicate if the current moment is in daylight saving time. | When the browsing session ends |
| isDSTSupport | Indicates whether a specified date and time falls in the range of daylight saving time. | When the browsing session ends |
| timeZoneCode | Holds the timezonecode field value of CRM timezonedefinition entity for the current timezone. | When the browsing session ends |
| Timezoneoffset | Holds the timezone difference between UTC and Local browser time. | When the browsing session ends |
Government services
We may link to other services that are run by different government departments. These services may set additional cookies and, if so, will have their own cookies policy.