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Most cookies expire after a specified time, but you can manage them yourself, including deleting them from your computer or telling your browser whether to accept them.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you can choose which cookies are set when you visit our website. This applies to all cookies apart from those that are needed for the website to function, which are usually referred to as ‘necessary’ or ‘functional’ cookies.

You can choose whether to accept cookies that remember your settings on this website – so you can dismiss alerts you don't want to read, for example. You can also choose to accept cookies that analyse how you use our website – we use this anonymous information to improve content and templates.

Cookies on this website

Necessary cookies

acceptCookies

  • Purpose: Used to setup the website cookies and control the cookie notification bar.
  • Expiry: 60 days

ARRAffinity

  • Purpose: Distributes website traffic across several servers to optimise response times
  • Expiry: End of session

Recite.Persist and Recite_Session

  • Purpose: Stores a flag to indicate whether the Recite Me toolbar should persist between pages or not and remembers user settings
  • Expiry: End of session

UMB_UPDCHK

  • Purpose: This cookie is set using the Umbraco web content management system. It is usually only seen by site administrators accessing the back end of the website, rather than general visitors.
  • Expiry: One month

1P_JAR, NID and CONSENT

  • Purpose: These cookies are set by the website search function, which is powered by Google
  • Expiry: Variable

Cookies that remember your settings

ccc-dismissed-alerts

  • Purpose: Remembers which alerts you have dismissed so you only see those you have not dismissed
  • Expiry: 90 days

Cookies that measure website use

AWSELB

  • Purpose: Allows the GovMetric feedback function to work
  • Expiry: 5 minutes

_ga, _gid and _gat_gtag_UA_366198_23

  • Purpose: Allows Google Analytics to track which parts of our website you visit
  • Expiry:
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    • _gat_gtag_UA_366198_23: 1 day

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