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 |