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Oxford Instruments plc, registered in England with the company number 775598 at Tubney Woods, Abingdon Oxon, OX13 5QX, UK, uses cookies and similar technologies on this website.
This page describes how our website uses these cookies and technologies to improve the visitor experience and how you can manage which cookies are placed on your computer.
Cookies are small text files which are transferred from our website and stored on your computer. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide general usage information to website owners. Cookies will only contain and transfer as much information as you have shared with a website.
Similar to cookies, HTML5 local storage stores information on your device and can record some information about your activities and preferences.
In addition to cookies, we also use web beacons and pixel tags on this website. Web beacons and pixel tags are embedded into a website or email to help identify your device cookies when you browse the website or email and let us know whether you have opened the email or not. We use this information to help us learn about your preferences and to improve our offerings. You can unsubscribe from our emails if you do not want to be tracked via emails.
Yes. Some of the cookies we set are absolutely necessary for the operation of our website. Without them the website would simply stop functioning. We have listed these as ‘Essential cookies’ in the table below. You cannot disable our essential cookies.
Not all cookies are essential. An explanation of the purpose and benefit of all of the other cookies used on our website is provided below. We need your consent to use any non-essential cookies and you can update your preferences at any time.
These cookies allow our website to provide you with the basic features and normal website behaviours, and to remember the choices you make. Examples include basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. We use these cookies as we believe it is in both our and your legitimate interests to enable the site to function properly.
Whilst it is possible to set your browser to block or alert you to these cookies, some parts of the website will not work without them.
Essential cookies seldom collect and use any personal data, though they may contain an ID code which allows the website to distinguish you as an individual visitor from all other visitors on the website at the same time. These unique ID codes are used to maintain a server session to enable functions you have requested.
Essential cookies are typically session cookies and therefore only retain data for the duration of your visit to the website.
We use third party website infrastructure suppliers to help us build and manage our website. Cookie data is stored securely on these suppliers’ servers.
These cookies collect general information about how visitors access and use our website to help us improve our website for everyone. For example, we track which pages visitors go to most often and if they get error messages or broken links. These cookies don’t collect personal data that identifies a visitor. All the information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
However, the third parties providing these services will process your personal data in order to provide the aggregated data.
We use these cookies to enable measurement and analytics. They help us to improve the onsite experience you have and ensure we better meet your needs. From analytics we can understand the journey you took to get to our website and where you went on our website. It helps us understand what pages are most popular and which are not, which informs our future decisions when developing new content. We can gather information about the devices used and the search engines used to make sure we are optimised for these platforms and can be easily found on these search engines. We use all this information to help inform our future decisions regarding market trends, content development and customer needs.
The cookies will normally just record an ID code. However, this ID code links to the server of the analytics provider, such as Google, CommuniGator or CrazyEgg, enabling them to build a profile of how you browse the website. Browser details are processed as a result of the cookie being read.
We do not collect any personal data through analytical cookies – we only receive aggregated data about our website visitors in general. However, Google, CommuniGator and CrazyEgg do process your personal data in order to provide these aggregated statistics to us. Further, as other websites also use Google Analytics, Google doesn’t just have a profile of how you use our website but also how you use many other websites which also use Google Analytics. To learn more about how Google processes your personal data, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy.
To learn more about how CommuniGator, part of the Spotler Group, process your personal data, please refer to their Privacy Policy
To learn more about CrazyEgg process your personal data, please refer to CrazyEgg’s Privacy Policy
These cookies use information about your browsing behaviour to make advertising more relevant to you, ensure you don’t see an advert too many times and to help us increase our website’s effectiveness for our visitors. These cookies also allow you to like and share our content on social media.
These cookies are only set on your device if you agree to them when you first visit our website, and you can subsequently reject marketing cookies at any time by changing your cookie settings.
We use advertising cookies to help us build a profile of your browsing behaviour so we can show advertisements that are most relevant to you. We use social media cookies so that you can ‘like’ or ‘share’ our content.
Advertising cookies store unique IDs that are associated with a profile on our advertising partners’ servers. These profiles record your browsing behaviour and actions linked to your browsing information, such as actions you take on the site, and technical specifications about your device and location. Google’s advertising cookies may also link to Google ID, if you are logged into your account while on our website, building a more detailed profile about you.
Social media cookies collect your IP address and browser string and send this back to the site that embedded the cookie, allowing social media sites to recognise that you have visited our site. This applies irrespective of whether you have an account with that social media site.
Any personal data shall be processed in accordance with our privacy policy.
The retention period of marketing cookies varies from 24 hours to 24 months depending on the purpose of the cookie.
We use third party website infrastructure suppliers to help us build and manage our website. Cookie data is stored securely on these suppliers’ servers.
We use advertising cookies set by a number of third parties, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. Oxford Instruments is a joint data controller with these companies because we choose to implement their cookies on our website, enabling those third parties to collect data about you when you visit our site.
To learn more about how they process your personal data, please refer to their privacy policies. Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are all EU-US Privacy Shield-certified organisations.
Website visitors may opt out of cookie collection at any time by blocking cookies in the website browser.
Please note: By disabling cookies in your browser, you may render some of the functionality on our website (and other websites you visit) unusable and we make no guarantees as to the performance of our website when cookies are disabled.
Here's how to prevent new cookies from being installed and how to delete existing cookies. The exact procedure depends on which browser you are using.
To prevent new cookies from being installed and delete existing cookies: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies
To prevent new cookies from being installed: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
To delete existing cookies: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored
To prevent new cookies from being installed and delete existing cookies:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
To prevent new cookies from being installed and delete existing cookies:
http://help.apple.com/safari/mac/8.0/#/sfri11471
You can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. Our privacy policy can be accessed here: https://www.oxinst.com/corporate-content/privacy
Our privacy statement tells you how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from), confirms your privacy rights and summarises how UK law protects you.
It aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through it when you sign up to our newsletter, purchase a product or service, take part in a competition, complete a contact support form, request pricing or a quote, download an asset.
We may change this Cookie Policy from time to time (for example, if the law changes). Any changes will be immediately posted on our website and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Cookie Policy on your first use of our website following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.
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Storage Time |
Recipient |
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Essential Cookies |
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.ASPXAUTH, ASP.NET_SessionId, JSESSIONID, PHPSESSID |
These cookies assign a unique ID to your session to connect it to the server and for other internal processes required throughout the course of the session, while maintaining anonymity. |
Session |
Oxford Instruments |
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_atuvc |
This works with social media to allow you to share content via your social media channels |
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top_menu |
Used to track whether the top menu has been opened. |
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quote-list sub-product-quote-list |
This cookie is used to store the product IDs that users have added to their quote list. |
7 days |
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AWSELB |
Associated with Amazon Web Services and is used for managing sticky sessions across production servers. |
30 days
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lang |
This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve content in that stored language the next time a user visits the website. |
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utm_campaign, utm_medium, utm_source |
These cookies help us to understand which channel you came from so that we can provide you with personalised content. |
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APISD, HSID, NIID, SAPISID, SIDCC, SSID |
These cookies work with Google maps to remembers your options, such as preferred zoom level. |
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oxi-gated-field- |
Used to track the completed forms across all Oxford Instruments owned sites to allow access to our protected assets and content. |
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Rated_assets |
Used to track which assets a user has rated within the learning centre |
365 days |
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DSID, JSESSIONID |
Set to note the specific user identity and contains an encrypted unique ID. |
Session |
Oxford Instruments Careers |
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rmk0, rmk1, rmk4 |
Created when a new user visits the recruitment site to encrypt ID of the user |
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rmk12 |
Indicates whether you have acknowledged the cookies policy banner. |
30 days |
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ASPSESSIONID, DSID, SecureSessionID |
General purpose platform session cookie used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. |
Session |
Oxford Instruments eStore |
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CartID5 |
This allows customers to add items to their shopping cart. Without it, customer cannot proceed to the checkout page. |
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vsettings |
Stores any site settings set by the customer for the duration of the session. |
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Sit, CustomerID, sid, userid |
This is set when a customer logs into the store and is necessary to be able to log in and allow them to check out as a returning customer. |
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*4Checkout, ER_ID |
Checkout cookies which carry session data around the customer, discounts, tax and currency. |
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AffiliateID |
Shows which affiliate should get credit for items purchased through the link |
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History50, VcompareIDs |
Stored product IDs of the last items viewed by a customers and controls the ‘My Recent History’ functionality. |
30 days |
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_utmc, lang, CONCRETE5 |
Provides necessary services available through the website and some of its features, including access to secure areas. |
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_ur_i |
Module which sets how cookies are handled. |
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Pgid-Client-DE-Site |
Maintains personalisation group to enable personalised content for the user. |
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CFID, CFTOKEN |
Uniquely identifies a customer browser to enable the site to maintain user session variables. |
Session |
Bitplane |
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__cfduid |
Used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable data. |
Session |
CloudFlare |
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Non-Essential Cookies |
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wow.utmvalues |
CommuniGator cookies are used to help us to understand which channel you came from so that we can provide you with personalised content, while setting a unique ID. For more information on CommuniGator cookies, please visit: |
Session
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CommuniGator |
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wow.session |
Session |
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wow.schedule |
Session |
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wow.anonymousId |
2 years |
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_ga, _gid |
Google Analytics cookies are used to analyse the how frequently people visit the website. The data collected is anonymised and does not allow personal identification. For more information on Google cookies, please visit: Opt out of Google Analytics: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout |
2 years |
Google Analytics |
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_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz |
30 days |
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_gat |
1 min |
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IDE |
Google’s advertising cookies which are used to deliver, measure and improve the relevancy of ads which you see. For more information on Google cookies, please visit: |
1 year |
Google Ads & DoubleClick |
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test_cookie |
1 day |
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id, uid |
2 years |
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NID |
6 months |
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__cfduid |
Used to identify unique visitors. |
1 year |
CrazyEgg |
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lang |
The cookies optimise the range of advertising on LinkedIn. For more information about LinkedIn cookies, please visit: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-table |
Session |
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UserMatchHistory |
30 days |
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bcookie, bscookie |
1 year |
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li_sugr, li_oatml |
90 days |
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lidc |
1 day |
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tr, _fbp, locale, xs, csm, s, lu |
The cookies optimise the range of advertising on Facebook. For more information about LinkedIn cookies, please visit: |
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wistia-http2-push-disabled |
Collects visitor interaction data regarding video content so that content can be made more relevant to you. |
30 days |
Video Content |
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