Introduction

To make this website work properly, and to provide the best possible experience services to our site visitors, we place small data files called cookies on your device. This policy provides you with information about cookies and how to control them for this website.

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie, to develop a record of the user’s online activity. Cookies on this site may be delivered in a first party (set by the National Public Lighting Energy Efficiency Project website) or third-party (set by another website) context and may also be set in association with emails you receive from us.

Cookies help us improve your experience when using the website. They also help us understand how people use our site, such as which pages are most popular, so that we can improve how we serve our website users. 

Cookies Used on This Site

Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential for enabling user movement around our website. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.

The table below provides more information about these cookies.

Cookie Name	Details

Analytics Cookies: We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. These cookies collect information in the aggregate to give us insight into how our website is being used. We anonymise IP addresses in Google Analytics, and the anonymised data is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. 

The table below provides more information about these cookies.

Cookie Name	Details
_ga	Source: Google Analytics Expiry: 2 years Purpose: Used to distinguish users.
_gid	Source: Google Analytics Expiry: 1 day Purpose: Used to distinguish users.
_ga_*	Source: Google Analytics Expiry: 1 day Purpose: Used to persist session state
_gac_gb_*	Source: Google Analytics Expiry: 90 days Purpose: Contains advertising campaign related information.
_gat/_dc_gtm_*	Source: Google Analytics Expiry: 1 minute Purpose: Used to throttle request rate
_gac_*	Source: Google Analytics Expiry: 90 Days Purpose: Contains advertising campaign related information