Our cookie policy
Cookies are small files that collect information to help provide the best possible online experience for you. This page will tell you what cookies are, how we use them, and how you can control our use of cookies and similar technologies.
Last updated: 4 November 2020
Index:
What are cookies and similar technologies?
Session and persistent cookies
How do I change my cookie settings?
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, tablet or smartphone, by websites and apps that you use. They collect information to make websites work effectively, to help us improve the site, to provide functionality, such as remembering what you have put in your shopping basket, and providing relevant marketing content. We use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a functional website and a more personalised experience.
Cookies are sent back to the originating website on each visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow us to recognise the device you’re using and provide you with a better website experience.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences andcounting the number of people looking at a website. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. Cookies in themselves don’t identify the individual user, just the computer or mobile device you’re using, via a randomly generated identifying tag.
We also use cookies in some of our emails you can subscribe to receive. They help us to understand how you interact with our emails, for example, clicking through to our website, and are used to improve our future email communications.
Web beacons
A web beacon is a tiny, invisible image placed within an email message that tells us whether you’ve opened an email, how often you’ve opened it and when, and which email software and web browser you used.
Link tracking
Our emails contain a number of hyperlinks, each of which has a unique tag. When you click on one of these links you’ll be automatically redirected to our mailing server which logs the click. From there, you’ll be redirected to the relevant page on our website. This process enables us to understand who has clicked through from an email to our website. We use this information to tailor future messages to you.
Cookies and email
If you’ve enabled images, cookies may be set on your computer or mobile device. Cookies will also be set if you click on any link within the email.
First and third party cookies
We use first and third party cookies for different purposes.
First party cookies are set by us, as the owner of the website or app, to enhance security and to improve our products and services for a better user experience.
Third party cookies are set on our website by an organisation other than us. These enable us to learn more about our customers, so that we can provide a more personalised experience, or in some cases for advertising.
Session and persistent cookies
This describes how long a cookie will last for.
Session cookies last only for the duration of your visit to a particular website. When you close your web browser they are deleted.
Persistent cookies remain on your device after you have closed your web browser. They can be used for many purposes, such as remembering your logon details or your chosen preferences.
Why do we use cookies?
There are many different types of cookie and we use them to enable activities on our website, app and within some email communications. We group these cookies as follows:
Essential cookies:
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or to make a purchase.
We also use essential cookies to remember information you’ve entered into our join or donate forms, so that you can move between steps on the form, or visit other pages without having to re-enter your information, all within a single website visit.
Functional cookies:
These cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to remember the preferences you’ve chosen, for example, we use functionality cookies to remember settings you’ve previously applied, such as layout and text size.
Performance cookies:
These cookies are used to provide anonymous data to track how you interact with the website, and the number of visitors. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that you find what you’re looking for easily. We also use these to make sure the site is working properly and for testing different designs.
Marketing cookies:
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We’ll use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests. These cookies allow us to target our advertising to you or to people similar to you, to measure effectiveness of campaigns, or to exclude you from our advertising. For example, a cookie set by a partner organisation may be used to exclude you from our membership ads on other organisations’ websites, if you have recently completed a membership purchase on our site. This enables us to target our advertising spend more efficiently. If you share an article using a social media sharing button, the social media site may record this.
Which cookies do we use?
First party cookies
The first party cookies that we use are listed in the table below:
| Cookie name | Cookie category | Cookie author | Cookie purpose | Cookie duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| at_check | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Used by Adobe Target to check if the users browser supports cookies | Session |
| channelSource | Marketing | nationaltrust.org.uk | Used to attribute conversions to affiliate campaigns. Set to either "AW" or "Other" | Session |
| _tq_id.TV-*** | Marketing | nationaltrust.org.uk | TVSquared - Aids reporting of site visits and actions for analytical reporting to TV Squared. | 2 years |
| nationalTrustCpcSubmissionId | Functional | nationaltrust.org.uk | Records the submission of marketing preferences to aid Adobe Analytics | 1 hour |
| klevu_rs_klevu_15266467488307721 | Functional | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Records recent searches. | 7 days |
| klevu_cat_klevu_15266467488307721 | Functional | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Records the product categories of recently clicked products. | 7 days |
| klevu_rcp_klevu_15266467488307721 | Functional | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Records recently clicked products. | 7 days |
| booking-reference | Functional | nationaltrust.org.uk | Enable user to continue with an abandoned holiday booking if they want to | 6 hours or Cookie Delete |
| cookieSplashShownOnce | Functional | nationaltrust.org.uk | Makes sure the user only sees the NT splash screen on the home page once | Session only |
| savePlaceWaiting | Functional | nationaltrust.org.uk | Saves the place favourited when returning from registration | 3 days |
| cookieShowFavouritesHelp | Functional | nationaltrust.org.uk | shows how to favourite places after favouriting for the first time | Session only |
| pageStack | Functional | nationaltrust.org.uk | Records the page name and URL of the users journey through the site, to enable back button linking on the web page | Session only |
| dismissedExactDateWarning | Functional | nationaltrust.org.uk | Prevents the following message "Flexible on when you go? Add date flexibility to show more results." appearing for 1 hour after the user has dismissed it once | 1 hour |
| Sc | Functional | nationaltrust.org.uk | Allows Promotion Code for Membership joins to be used for 7 days after the user has visited the website with a promotion code | 7 days |
| lastPlaceViewed | Functional | nationaltrust.org.uk | Records the last place page the user has visited in order to show similar places on the home page. | 10 Years or Cookie Delete |
| pagesVisited | Functional | nationaltrust.org.uk | Records page ID of the last 20 pages the user has visited. Used to show similar content on personalised teasers. | 10 Years or Cookie Delete |
| NTAUTH_JSESSIONID | Essential | nationaltrust.org.uk | Signed In Session SSO | Session only |
| DIGITAL_JSESSIONID | Essential | nationaltrust.org.uk | Signed In Session Website & Shop | Session only |
| SECURE_JSESSIONID | Essential | nationaltrust.org.uk | Signed In Session MyNT | Session only |
| NT_HOLIDAYS_SESSION_ID | Essential | nationaltrust.org.uk | For National Trust holidays, used to store last used search start date to initialise the availability calendar when an accommodation is chosen | Session only |
| SECURE_HOLIDAYS_SESSION_ID | Essential | nationaltrust.org.uk | Used to enable session for the holidays booking app. | Session only |
| DONATE_SECURE_JSESSIONID | Essential | nationaltrust.org.uk | Donate journey session | Session only |
| JOIN_JSESSIONID | Essential | nationaltrust.org.uk | For National Trust recruiters at National Trust properties. Used to store property id, the recruitment points within the property (e.g. main reception), and the recruiter’s name. The information stored in this cookie is then used to pre-fill a part of the form for subsequent enrolments. | Session only |
| SESSION | Essential | nationaltrust.org.uk | Renew journey session | Session only |
| marketingPreferencesUpdated | Essential | nationaltrust.org.uk | Records when marketing permissions have been updated. Determines whether a banner is shown to encourage users to update permissions Remembers not to display the GDPR dialog again (some data is also written to local storage to support this functionality) | 1 year |
| cookiePreferences | Essential | nationaltrust.org.uk | Records the user's cookie preferences | 1 year |
| JOIN_INITIATOR | Functional | nationaltrust.org.uk | Takes the user back to the appropriate starting point for the join journey (i.e. either the NT recruiter starting point, or the general public starting point) if the session times out | 1 year |
| JOIN_RECRUITER_DETAILS | Functional | nationaltrust.org.uk | For National Trust recruiters at National Trust properties. Used to store property id, the recruitment point within the property (e.g. main reception), and the recruiter’s name. The information stored in this cookie is then used to pre-fill a part of the form for subsequent enrolments. | 1 year |
| AMCVS_xxx_AdobeOrg | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Unique visitor IDs used by Marketing Cloud Solutions. This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor | Session/Visit |
| AMCV_xxx_AdobeOrg | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Unique visitor IDs used by Marketing Cloud Solutions. This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor | 2 years |
| s_ecid | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Adobe Experience Cloud uses a cookie to store a visitor ID that is used across Experience Cloud Solutions. | 2 years |
| s_fid | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Fallback unique visitor ID time/date stamp | 2 years |
| ensSiteTimeStart2 | Marketing | nationaltrust.org.uk | Ensighten - Used as part of the functionality to count how many times users remain on site for 30 seconds or more | Session/visit |
| s_cc | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code to determine if cookies are enabled (simply set to "True") | Session/visit |
| s_sq | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - This cookie is set and read by the JavaScript code to provide information on links that are clicked on the site. | Session/visit |
| s_dfa | Marketing | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Capture DoubleClick For Advertising campaign parameter value. | Session/visit |
| s_vi_xxxxxxxxxxx | Performance | omtrdc.net | Adobe Analytics - This cookie is used as part of the Adobe functionality to identify a unique visitor. A user may have more than one of these depending on how many NT Sites/site areas they have visited. | 2 years |
| demdex | Performance | thenationaltrust.demdex.net | Adobe Analytics - This cookie is used as part of the Adobe functionality to identify a unique visitor | 180 days |
| dpm | Performance | .dpm.demdex.net | Adobe Analytics - This cookie is used as part of the Adobe functionality to identify a unique visitor | 180 days |
| s_dslvnt | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used as part of the functionality to see how many days have fallen between a user's visit | Session/visit |
| s_dslvnt_s | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used as part of the functionality to see how many days have fallen between a user's visit | Session/visit |
| s_ev38 | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - This cookie is used to identify the marketing channel that last brought the visitor to the site | 5 years |
| s_getNewRepeat | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - This cookie is used to identify if a visitor is new or returning | 365 days |
| s_vnum | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - This cookie is used to identify the visit number | 365 days |
| ttcp | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used to calculate time it takes a user to complete purchase from start of their visit | Session/visit |
| ttco | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used to calculate time it takes a user complete purchase from start of the checkout process | Session/visit |
| s_evpthpg | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used for pathing reports to deduplicate events | Session/visit |
| s_visitStart | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used to track a new visit that has started | Session/visit |
| s_campaignJoin | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used to store a campaign tracking code in order to deduplicate campaign clickthrough's in a visit | Session/visit |
| s_intcmp | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used to store an internal campaign tracking code in order to deduplicate clicks in a session | Session/visit |
| s_ppvl | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used as part of the functionality to see how far users have scrolled down a page | Session/visit |
| s_ppv | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used as part of the functionality to see how far users have scrolled down a page | Session/visit |
| s_ppn | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used to allow Adobe Analytics to store the previous page that was viewed on the site - for pathing purposes. | Session/visit |
| s_tbms_tbm30 | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used to identify the marketing channel which has brought users to the site | Session/visit |
| s_ptc | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - This provides accurate and detailed timing statistics for page load events & asset load times | Session/visit |
| s_invisit | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - Used as part of the Visit Number tracking functionality | Session/visit |
| mbox | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Target This cookie stores a number of values to manage how users experience Target Campaigns. Session ID - A unique ID for a user session. PC ID – An ID for the user’s browser. Check – An ID for the user’s browser. Disable – Set if a user’s load time exceeds the Adobe Target timeout. | 2 weeks |
| mboxEdgeCluster | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Target This cookie stores a number of values to manage how users experience Target Campaigns. | Session/visit |
| s_tbm | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - The cookie identifies the marketing channel through which the user accessed the page | Session/visit |
| cmgvo | Performance | nationaltrust.org.uk | Adobe Analytics - The cookie identifies the marketing channel through which the user accessed the page | Session/visit |
| 2c.cId | Marketing | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Nosto - To identify browsers between their visits to the site. | 4 years |
| AWSELB | Performance | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Amazon Web Services - Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server | 24 hours |
| AWSELBCORS | Performance | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Amazon Web Services - Elastic Load Balancing functionality for routing client request on the server | 24 hours |
| form_key | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | A security measure that appends a random string to all form submissions to protect the data from Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). | 24 hours |
| klevu_rs_klevu | Functional | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Klevu - Records recent searches | 1 year |
| login_redirect | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Preserves the destination page the customer was navigating to before being directed to log in. | Session |
| mage-cache-sessid | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | The value of this cookie triggers the cleanup of local cache storage. | Session |
| mage-cache-storage | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables e-commerce functions. | Session |
| mage-cache-storage-section-invalidation | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Forces local storage of specific content sections that should be invalidated. | 24 hours |
| mage-messages | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Tracks error messages and other notifications that are shown to the user, such as the cookie consent message, and various error messages, The message is deleted from the cookie after it is shown to the shopper. | 1 year |
| mage-translation-file-version | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Stores the file version of translated content. | 24 hours |
| mage-translation-storage | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Stores translated content when requested by the shopper. | 24 hours |
| nosto.itemsAddedToCart | Marketing | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Nosto - Tracking items added to cart | Session |
| nostojs | Marketing | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Nosto - Used to indicate whether or not the visitors browser has JavaScript enabled | 4 years |
| persistent_shopping_cart | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Stores the key (ID) of persistent cart to make it possible to restore the cart for an anonymous shopper. | 1 year |
| PHPSESSID | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | To store the logged in user's username and a 128bit encrypted key. This information is required to allow a user to stay logged in to a web site without needing to submit their username and password for each page visited. Without this cookie, a user is unable to proceed to areas of the web site that require authenticated access. | 24 hours |
| private_content_version | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Appends a random, unique number and time to pages with customer content to prevent them from being cached on the server. | 10 years |
| product_data_storage | Marketing | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Stores configuration for product data related to Recently Viewed / Compared Products. | 24 hours |
| recently_compared_product | Marketing | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Stores product IDs of recently compared products. | 24 hours |
| recently_compared_product_previous | Marketing | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Stores product IDs of previously compared products for easy navigation. | 24 hours |
| recently_viewed_product | Marketing | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Stores product IDs of recently viewed products for easy navigation. | 24 hours |
| recently_viewed_product_previous | Marketing | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Stores product IDs of recently previously viewed products for easy navigation. | 24 hours |
| section_data_ids | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc. | Session |
| sso-login | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Single Sign On login from nationaltrust.org.uk | Session |
| store | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Tracks the specific store view / locale selected by the shopper. | 1 year |
| user_allowed_save_cookie | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Indicates if the shopper allows cookies to be saved. | 24 hours |
| X-Magento-Vary | Performance | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Configuration setting that improves performance when using Varnish static content caching. | 1 hour |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Essential | shop.nationaltrust.org.uk | Written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks | Session |
Third party cookies
We use third party cookies for the purposes of advertising and analytics. The below table outlines the purpose of each of our current third party cookies and gives links to the privacy policies of each third party. Please note the third party cookies used may change as we work with new or different suppliers – this list will be reviewed and updated quarterly.
| Cookie author | Cookie category | Cookie purpose | Link to third party policy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | Marketing | This cookie allows the display of adverts which are relevant to you and your interests. | https://www.amazon.co.uk/adprefs |
| Media IQ | Marketing | This cookie allows the display of adverts which are relevant to you and your interests. | http://wearemiq.com/privacy-policy/ |
| Affiliate Window | Marketing | Allow conversion tracking | https://www.awin.com/gb/legal/privacy-policy |
| Google Adwords | Marketing | Allow conversion tracking, optimisation and remarketing | https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads |
| Marketing | Allow conversion tracking, optimisation and remarketing | https://www.facebook.com/policy.php | |
| Google Doubleclick | Marketing | Allow conversion tracking and optimisation | https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads |
| Rocket Fuel/Zeta Global | Marketing | Allow conversion tracking, optimisation and remarketing | https://www.zetaglobal.com |
| TVSquared | Marketing | Allow conversion tracking | https://tvsquared.com/privacy-policy/ |
| klick2contact | Functional | Allows you to interact with live chat for help in certain sections of the website | https://www.eckoh.com/customer-engagement/chat |
| Klevu | Marketing | Used to distinguish user and to store the Zopim Live Chat ID used to identify a device across visits. | https://www.klevu.com/terms-of-service/ |
| Nosto | Marketing | Used to distinguish users. | https://www.nosto.com/data-privacy/ |
| New Relic | Performance | Preserves users states across page requests. | https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/cookie-policy |
| Sage Pay | Essential | Verifies if the visitors browser has JavaScript enabled, preserves users states across page requests. Stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. A cookie is also managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. |
https://www.opayo.co.uk/policy/cookies |
| Marketing | Allow conversion tracking, optimisation and remarketing. | https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies |
How do I change my cookie preferences and settings?
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Managing email cookies
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Changes to this cookie policy
We will occasionally update this cookie policy to reflect changes in our departments and services. When we post changes to this cookie policy, we will revise the 'Last updated' date at the top of this cookie policy.
If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share information held in cookies, we will notify you by prominently posting notice of the changes on the website.
We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this cookie policy or any of our other policies.
