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Use of cookies

To make this site secure, useful, and easy to use, we sometimes place small data files on your computer or mobile phone. These data files are known as cookies. Most other commercial and Government websites do this too.

We use cookies to help us:

  • Remember the information you have already typed in, so you don't need to keep re-entering it.
  • Make the site more secure and protect it against attacks.
  • Measure how you use the website so we can make sure it is useful and meeting your needs.

Our cookies are not used to identify you personally. They contain non-identifiable information only, in most cases just a string of randomly generated numbers and letters. You are free to manage and delete these cookies as you wish.

You can learn more about cookies and how to manage them from GOV.UK: How government websites use cookies.


Remembering information

Remembering information

Name Content and Description Expires
SSESS9b724300a4629e938c8521f4cf9c1980 Randomly generated numbers and letters, allows the websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. When you close your browser
cookie-agreed A number which indicates if the user interacted with the cookie banner. 100 days
cookie-agreed-categories The cookie categories the user accepted. 100 days
cookie-agreed-version The cookie policy version the user interacted with. 100 days

Security

We use Cloudflare to add additional security rules to website sessions.

Security

Name Content and Description Expires
__cfduid Randomly generated number, used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. 1 year

Measuring website usage

We use Google Analytics and Hotjar to collect information about how people use this site. For example, what you click on, how long you spend on the site and how you got here. We do this to make sure the site is meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we can improve it. This information cannot be used to identify who you are. We do not allow Google or Hotjar to use or share our analytics data.

Measuring website usage

Name Content and Description Expires
_ga Randomly generated number, used to distinguish users. 2 years
_gat_UA-123402504-1 Number, , used to throttle request rate. When you close your browser
_gid Randomly generated number, used to distinguish users. 24 hours
_hjIncludedInSample Number, used to signify that a visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. 1 year