Privacy & 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, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot 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 services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast

Our use of cookies

All cookies in use on this website are first party. No third party cookies are used.

Cookies for improving service

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, and information about how you reached our website
Expires: 6 months

Cookies used to remember selections or preferences that you make when using the website

Name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser

Name: Clientvars
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 days

Name: mode
Typical content: nothing
Expires: 1 week