Cookies

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device. These include small files known as cookies. They are not to be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

• enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
• recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
• measuring how many people are using online services, to help us improve the website.

Below is a list of cookies used on our website, grouped by what they do.

Cookies for improving service by measuring traffic

Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.

Name: _utma
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years

Name: _utmb
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 30 minutes

Name: _utmc
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser

Name: _utmz
Typical content: randomly generated number info on how the site was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid search)
Expires: 6 months

Cookies for storing your email address and preferences

We use various cookies to store any details you enter, so that you (or your preferences) are remembered the next time you visit the site.

Name: JSESSIONID
Typical content: Randomly generated alphanumeric string used to track a series of requests from the same user across some period of time on our online forms.
Expires: when user exits browser