Cookie Notice
We use cookies on our website. Find out more about what cookies we use.
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit our site. Our site recognises those cookies on each subsequent visit, enabling our site to recognise you.
How and why we use cookies
We use cookies on our site to:
- recognise you whenever you visit our site
- remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again
- allow you to navigate between pages efficiently
- safeguard your privacy when you're using our site, automatically ending a secure session when you log out, or after 10 minutes
- measure how you use our site so it can be updated and improved to give you the best possible experience on our site
- measure and analyse our advertising
- remember pages you have been looking at so we can tailor and enhance our advertising
The Information we obtain from our use of cookies usually contains information relating to your IP address, browser and other internet log information and will not usually include your name, address or other more obvious identifiers.
In most cases we will need your consent in order to use cookies on our site. The exception to this is where the cookie is essential in order for us to provide you with a service you have requested (such as making payments through our site).
When you open our site in your browser a cookie pop up message will be displayed and this will ask you for your consent for non-essential cookies to be placed on your device. A record of your acceptance will be stored in a functional cookie for 30 days, after which the cookie will expire and the cookie pop up message will be displayed again.
You may withdraw your consent or acceptance at any time by following the instructions for disabling cookies, signposted at the end of this Cookie Notice.
We use the following cookies on our site:
Essential Cookies
These cookies, otherwise known as Strictly Necessary, are essential in order to enable you to move around our site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of our site. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like the ability to make a payment, view your account details, or set up a payment plan cannot be provided.
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Cookie Name |
How long this cookie lasts |
What is the purpose of this cookie? |
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.AspNetCore. NSC xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx .AspNetCore.Antiforgery |
End of browser session End of browser session 1 year |
This cookie name is associated with the Netscaler load balancing service from Citrix. This is a pattern type cookie with the root being NSC_ and the rest of the name being a unique encrypted alpha numeric identifier for the virtual server it originated from. The cookie is used to ensure traffic and user data is routed to the correct locations where a site is hosted on multiple servers, so that the end user has a consistent experience. |
Essential Third Party Cookies
Third party cookies are used to provide important functionality to our site, as well as collecting anonymous user data for analysis.
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Third party |
Cookie name |
How long this cookie lasts |
What is the purpose of this cookie? |
|---|---|---|---|
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identityservice.lowellgroup.co.uk |
.IdentityServer.Session |
1 year |
This cookie allows us to make sure that you are a person not a robot |
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identityservice.lowellgroup.co.uk |
.AspNetCore.Antiforgery |
1 year |
.AspNetCore. |
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identityservice.lowellgroup.co.uk |
NSC_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
End of browser session |
This cookie name is associated with the Netscaler load balancing service from Citrix. This is a pattern type cookie with the root being NSC_ and the rest of the name being a unique encrypted alpha numeric identifier for the virtual server it originated from. The cookie is used to ensure traffic and user data is routed to the correct locations where a site is hosted on multiple servers, so that the end user has a consistent experience. |
Functional Cookies
These essential cookies allow our site to remember choices you make. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other sites.
Third Party Functional Cookies
These non-essential cookies collect information about how visitors use our site, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.
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Third party |
Cookie name |
How long this cookie lasts |
What is the purpose of this cookie? |
|---|---|---|---|
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accounts.google.com |
__Host-1PLSID |
7 months |
This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: User Accounts sub-domain. Cookies in this domain have lifespans between 1 month to 2 years. |
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accounts.google.com |
OTZ |
1 year |
This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: User Accounts sub-domain. Cookies in this domain have lifespans between 1 month to 2 years. |
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accounts.google.com |
ACCOUNT CHOOSER |
1 year |
This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: User Accounts sub-domain. Cookies in this domain have lifespans between 1 month to 2 years. |
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accounts.google.com |
_HOST-GAPS |
1 year |
This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: User Accounts sub-domain. Cookies in this domain have lifespans between 1 month to 2 years. |
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accounts.google.com |
_HOST-3PLSID |
7 months |
This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: User Accounts sub-domain. Cookies in this domain have lifespans between 1 month to 2 years. |
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accounts.google.com |
LSID |
7 months |
This domain is owned by Google. The main business activity is: User Accounts sub-domain. Cookies in this domain have lifespans between 1 month to 2 years. |
Targeting & Marketing cookies
These third party cookies help us to customise our social media ads – particularly on Facebook and Instagram – and to analyse traffic driven to our site from advertising and the effectiveness of our ads. If you don’t accept these cookies, you may still see messages from Lowell, but they may be less relevant to you.
If you want to further limit the ads you see, change your advertising settings for Facebook and Instagram.
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Third party |
Cookie name |
How long this cookie lasts |
What is the purpose of this cookie? |
|---|---|---|---|
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google.com |
NID |
1 year |
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
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google.com |
SID |
7 months |
This cookie is used by Google in combination with HSID to verify a Google user account and most recent login time. |
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google.com |
SIDCC |
5 months |
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
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google.com |
__Secure-xxxxxxx |
7 months |
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
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youtube.com |
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA |
5 months |
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. |
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google.com |
HSID |
7 months |
Used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time |
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google.com |
SAPISID |
7 months |
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
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youtube.com |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
5 months |
This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos |
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google.com |
APISID |
7 months |
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
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youtube.com |
YSC |
1 year |
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. |
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google.com |
SSID |
7 months |
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
Where to find more information
You can adjust the settings in your web browser to determine whether (all) sites can set cookies on your computer. Find out more information about cookies and how to manage them, specific to your browser.
If you have any further questions, comments or requests regarding our Cookie Notice or how we use cookies on our site, please contact us.