Cookies
We would also like to use cookies and similar technologies to see how our online advertising is working, such as checking which Facebook ads work best and whether people who click them use the site to find information or access our services.
We don’t use these technologies to identify you personally, and we won’t use non-essential cookies unless you give your permission first.
When you make a choice, we will store a small cookie to remember your choices. This means that if you return to the site, we’ll remember what you decided, and won’t ask you to choose again. This cookie doesn’t store any directly identifiable information about you.
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Purpose: To remember your cookies preferences
Expiry: 1 year
Analytics
We use cookies from Google Analytics to measure how you use our website, including which pages you visit, which links you click on and where you came from when you visited us. These reports help us make sure that the site is easy to use and helpful. They also help us keep improving the site for you.
These cookies collect information in a way that doesn’t directly identify anyone. Check Google’s privacy page to find out more.
You can change whether you agree to us using Analytics cookies at any time – manage your cookie settings.
We would like to set the following Analytics cookies
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Purpose: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data
Expiry: Up to 2 years
You can change whether you agree to us using Analytics cookies at any time – manage your cookie settings.
Marketing
We use information provided by advertising platform cookies and pixels to improve our advertising and our website. This data can tell us which specific ads you have clicked to reach the site and what actions you took when you visited. This can help us improve our advertising by focusing on the most successful adverts. It can also help avoid showing ads that you’ve seen before.
Those third party platforms, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, may use cookies or other similar technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet. They may use that data to help measure the effectiveness of adverts and target other ads based on your interests. Click the links to visit their privacy policies.
Visiting other sites
We link to some GOV.UK services or other sites which can set additional cookies and have their own cookies policies. Most sites will allow you to change your own cookie settings.