Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent from our web server to your browser. It is stored on your hard drive. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites, and will not damage your system.
PRS for Music is committed to first-class customer service. As part of this, we want our website to work effectively for all who visit it, and to deliver the best possible user experience. Our website therefore makes limited use of cookies, to provide us with a better picture of how it is being visited and used. This then helps us to further improve the website.
Here are details of the cookies currently used by the PRS for Music website:
Essential cookies
| Cookie name | Third party? | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
.LMGR_AUTH .LMS_AUTH .LOML_AUTH .ProDub_AUTH NWR_Active_Profile_Id OLR_Active_Profile_Id CopCon_Active_Profile_Id stored_id_token BNES_stored_id_token VICO_Active_Profile_Id WACD_Active_Profile_Id WACS_Active_Profile_Id WACU_Active_Profile_Id |
No | To manage login status | Session |
SearchWorks_Active_Profile_Id BNES_SearchWorks_Active_Profile_Id |
No | To manage login status | 7 hours |
oid |
No | To manage log in status and to detect the presence of cookies | 1 year |
.AspNetCore.Correlation.OpenIdConnect. BNES_.AspNetCore.Correlation.OpenIdConnect. _pia BNES__pc _piac OpenIdConnect.nonce. x-ms-cpim-trans BNES_OlsAuth BNES_OlsIamProfile BNES_OpenIdConnect.nonce. |
No | For authentication purposes | Session |
_ppi BNES__ppi _ppif BNES__ppif IAMAUTH BNES_IAMAuth |
No | For authentication purposes | 7 hours |
.ASPXROLES |
No | For authorisation purposes | Session |
shell#lang BNES_shell#lang |
No | To store the preferred language settings of visitors to our website | Session |
ASP.NET_SessionId BNES_ASP.NET_SessionId |
No | To identify the user’s session on the server | Session |
SessionId_apps |
No | To maintain session ID | Session |
x-bni-fpc x-bni-rncf |
No | User session control and firewall protection | 400 days |
clientSrc |
No | For security purposes | Session |
__RequestVerificationToken |
No | To validate anti forgery token functionality for web form and prevent cross site request forgery | Session |
x-ms-cpim-csrf |
No | To protect against cross site request forgery | Session |
idccsrf |
No | To track cross site request forgery validation | Session |
sid_Client |
No | To detect and prevent session tampering | Session |
_GRECAPTCHA |
Yes - Google | To make use of reCAPTCHA risk analysis | 6 months |
BNIS_STCookie |
No | Inserted by our web application firewall for security purpose | Session |
PHPSESSID |
No | To identify a user’s session on a website | Session |
LSKey-c$CookieConsentPolicy |
No | To save cookie consent settings. Specifies the ID of a selected effective account. Used for authenticated users only | 1 year |
hideCookieInfo |
No | To remember cookie dismissal status in relevant app | Session |
_prslua |
No | To remember the last set of actions performed by the user | Session |
CookieSm |
No | To enforce the user’s Cookie preferences for Survey Monkey | 84 days |
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Yes - Survey Monkey | To enforce the user’s Cookie preferences for Survey Monkey | Session 62 days 1 Year |
_cp |
No | To remember if the user has previously accepted cookie policy, as well as preferences for whether to hide/show distribution amount online by default | Session |
CookieConsentPolicy |
No | Used to apply end-user cookie consent preferences set by certain areas of our website hosting platform | 1 year |
inst |
No | To correctly direct users to their intended destination | Session |
sfdc-stream |
No | To properly route server requests within certain areas of our website | 3 hours |
_pc BNES__pc |
No | To optimise user experience | 7 hours |
AFLKey_apps.prsformusic.com |
No | To track the ID of the current licence application | 394 days |
ai_session ai_user |
No | To detect and diagnose exceptions and application performance issues | Session 1 year |
BlueStripe.PVN |
No | To monitor performance of web applications | Session |
renderCtx |
No | To store site parameters in the session for reuse across requests by a single client for functionality and performance reasons | Session |
sid |
No | To maintain session ID | Session |
StartTimemusicshop.prsformusic.comlmgr |
No | To enable a user to use an application within a time limit before having to login to the website again. The cookie only stores the time to end the session and require a new login | Session |
x-ms-cpim-cache|hddybkuswkiwosmtk1auow_0 |
No | To maintain the request state | Session |
Social media cookies
| Cookie name | Third party? | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
ct0 kdt guest_id twid auth_token |
Yes - Twitter |
For authentication purposes | 5 hours 1 month 1 year 1 year 1 year |
guest_id_ads guest_id_marketing |
Yes - Twitter |
For advertising when logged out | 400 days |
_twitter_sess |
Yes - Twitter |
For user sessions | Session |
d_prefs |
Yes - Twitter |
For managing cookies preferences | 6 months |
dnt |
Yes - Twitter |
To opt-out of ad personalisation | 15 days |
ads_prefs |
Yes - Twitter |
To enhance the user experience by easing interaction with official authenticated Twitter widgets on the website | 5 years |
personalization_id |
Yes - Twitter |
To provide a personalised user experience | 400 days |
gt |
Yes - Twitter |
For external app functionality and authorisation | 2 hours |
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Yes - AddThis | To enable social media functionality on our website | 391 days |
loc uvc |
Yes - AddThis | To enable social media functionality on our website | 397 days |
sshs |
Yes - Spotify | To enable social media functionality on our website | 397 days |
Functional cookies
| Cookie name | Third party? | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
__cf_bm |
Yes - Cloudflare | To serve third party content e.g. Javascript to animate M-Magazine pages | Session |
autocomplete |
No | Determines if the login page remembers the user's username | 1 week |
smcx_0_last_shown_at |
No | To record if a visitor has seen and responded to a popup window inviting them to take a survey, so they are not presented with it again in future | Session |
oinfo |
No | To track the last logged in organisation | 3 months |
Analytics cookies
| Cookie name | Third party? | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
__atuvs BNES___atuvs |
Yes - AddThis | To collect anonymous analytical data and to keep an updated count if you share a page | Session |
__atuvc BNES___atuvc |
Yes - AddThis | To collect anonymous analytical data and to keep an updated count if you share a page | 397 days |
pctrk |
No | To track page visitors | 1 year |
_gat _gat_ BNES__gat_ |
Yes - Google |
Used to throttle request rate, which means that it limits the collection of data on high traffic sites | 1 minute |
_ga _ga_ BNES__ga_ |
Yes - Google |
To uniquely identify users | 2 years |
Functional and analytics cookies
| Cookie name | Third party? | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
sp_landing sp_t |
Yes - Spotify | To implement audio content from Spotify on the website and also register information on user interaction related to the audio content | 1 day 1 year |
Additional tracking technologies
Facebook Custom Audiences and Twitter Tailored Audiences are utilised to provide users with relevant content including education pieces and industry news. This also incorporates Instagram because they are managed via Facebook. These tracking technologies can be opted out of directly at each of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Users can customise their Facebook, Instagram and Twitter experience by hiding sponsored posts provided by PRS for Music.
Web beacons are utilised by our third party email system, Dotmailer, to track efficiency of email communications. Users can opt out by unsubscribing from this form of communication.
