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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:
- _ga: 2 years
- _gid: End of session
- _gat_gtag_UA_366198_23: 1 day
Hotjar cookies
We are using Hotjar to help us understand how visitors use our website.
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Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility.
You can disable necessary cookies by changing your browser settings, but this might affect how the website works.
Cookies that remember your settings
Cookies that measure website use
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