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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

Managing, removing and deleting cookies

To learn more about cookies and how to manage them visit www.aboutcookies.org (external site).

Our use of cookies

Google Analtics

The web statistics package we use on our site, Google Analytics, sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.

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    Typical content: randomly generated number
    Expires: 2 years
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    Typical content: randomly generated number
    Expires: 30 minutes
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    Typical content: randomly generated number
    Expires: when user exits browser
  • _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

For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code website.

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website that allows you to view videos on the justice.gov.uk site. The cookie is used to allow you to “share” a YouTube video via other social networking sites.

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If you opt out you will not be able to view or play YouTube videos on the justice.gov.uk website.

More information on YouTube cookies

AddThis

AddThis allows you to share content on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

If you opt out you will not be able to share pages.

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  • psc
  • uid

More information on AddThis cookies

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