Consent

There are a number of situations in which the IBTS will also explicitly ask for a donors consent in order to process their information including:

To contact the donors GP for information relating to their suitability to donate
To send text messages or emails in relation to upcoming clinics and the donors donations, communicate about service evaluation and research projects; invite donors to participate in surveys and to keep donors up to date about new developments at the IBTS
Specific separate consent is also collected to join our IUBMR and platelet programmes

Name	Expires	Purpose
YSC	Session	Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
_ga	2 years	Google Analytics. Tells us how you use our websites. Used to ensure the website operates sufficiently for users.
_gat	1 minute	Google Analytics. Helps stop Google Analytics web servers crashing when collecting information on how you use our websites. Used to ensure the website operates sufficiently for users.
_gid	24 hours	Google Analytics. Sets a unique (anonymous) ID for your session to help tell us how you use our websites. Used to ensure the website operates sufficiently for users.
___utmvc	Session	This cookie enables the function of Google Analytics.
__utmz	6 months	Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site.
__utmb	30 minutes	Used to determine new sessions/visits.
__utma	2 years	Used to distinguish users and sessions.
__utmt	10 minutes	Used to throttle request rate.

Name	Expires	Purpose
_fbp	3 months	Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products.
GPS	1 day	YouTube cookies which registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.
IDE	1 year	Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	180 days	This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites; it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface.
test_cookie	1 year	This cookie is set by DoubleClick (which is owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies.