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, your 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

ARRAffinity, ARRAffinitySameSite

These cookies are set by websites run on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform (which hosts our website). It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session.

Cookie Lifetime. xsrf-token

This cookie helps prevent cross-site request forgeries (CSRF) and improves your security. It is essentially another session cookie that makes sure the active user (you) is the one making requests to our website.

.AspNetCore.Antiforgery

This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery. It holds no information about the user.

.AspNetCore.Cookies

This is a session cookie, used to maintain user session state and for authentication purposes.

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.

However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The 'Help' function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You'll also find general information about cookies including how to delete them from your machine.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.

If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

To opt-out of third-parties collecting any data regarding your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information.

If you have any questions about these terms and conditions or the practices of this website, please email us at [email protected]