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| Name | Purpose | Expires |
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| _gat | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | 1 hour |
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| Name | Purpose | Expires |
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| ai_session | This is used to group different actions into a single visit | 30 minutes |
| ai_user | This is used to distinguish users | 1 year |
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| Name | Purpose | Expires |
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| TmsCookieControl | Records whether the cookies notification pop-up has been acknowledged by the user | 1 year |
| ARRAffinity | Used to link a client to an instance of an Azure Web Application | Session |
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| AspNetCore.Culture | Used to determine the correct language version of the service | 1 year |
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WRA online services use the Microsoft B2C identity and access management solution. This third-party service sets several necessary cookies to route requests to our online services. For more information please refer to Microsoft.
