Cookies on the Veterinary Medicines Digital Service

This cookies policy applies to the following (known collectively as the Veterinary Medicines Digital Service (VMDS)

• Adverse Event Reporting
• Secure Messaging
• Apply for, vary or renew veterinary medicines authorisations
• Imports

Essential cookies

We only use cookies that are essential to the service we are providing. They always need to be on to allow us to:

• remember the notifications you have seen so we do not show them 
to you again
• remember your progress

We use the following cookies:

Name	Purpose	Expires
session	Stores session data	On browser closes
idm	Stores logged in user auth token	24 hours
history	Stores user navigation	24 hours
.Asp.Net.Cookies	Stores session data	On browser close
ASP.NET_SessionId	Stores session data	On browser close
x-ms-cpim-cache:(id}_n	Used for maintaining the request state	On browser close
__RequestVerificationToken	Prevents forged requests	On browser close, successful authentication
x-ms-cpim-csrf	Cross-Site Request Forgery token used for CRSF protection.	On browser close
x-ms-cpim-trans	Used for tracking the transactions (number of authentication requests to Azure AD B2C) and the current transaction.	On browser close