| Cookie(s) |
Category |
What the purpose is |
How to block |
What would happen |
| Preference cookies |
Setting-based, Function-based |
In some areas of our website, we use cookies to remember your preferences and offer you personalised services. The information message that appears at the top of our website, highlighting our use of cookies, is one example of this. |
To ensure this cookie is not downloaded, we recommend that you disable cookies directly within your browser. |
Blocking our preference cookies may result in a reduced service if you wish to personalise some of our services, or dismiss our site-wide messages. |
| Session cookies |
Function-based |
In some areas of our website, we use session cookies to ensure persistent connections to our servers. |
To ensure this cookie is not downloaded, we recommend that you disable cookies directly within your browser. |
Blocking our session cookies may result in you being unable to log in to some of our services via secure HTTPS links. Because of this, we strongly recommend that you don’t block these types of cookies. |
| Google Analytics cookies |
Function-based |
Analytical information is captured in some areas of the main site, to help us improve services and better understand user requirements. This information is captured through a free service provided by Google (Google Analytics), using multiple cookies. Specific information on the cookies used by Google Analytics is available here. |
Google Analytics cookies can be blocked in a number of different ways. Google offers an opt-out browser add-on for most modern web browsers, or cookies can be disabled directly within your browser. |
Blocking Google Analytics cookies will provide no reduced service to you, but we will be unable to capture detailed information about your experience online. |
| Google Maps cookies |
Function-based, Third-party |
Google capture some information as you view a map on their servers. Primarily, the purpose is to remember options and preferences (such as location, zoom level or type of map), but some analytical information is also transferred about usage. |
Google Maps cookies can be blocked in a number of different ways. Google offers an opt-out browser add-on for most modern web browsers, or cookies can be disabled directly within your browser. |
Some maps on our website would cease to work correctly, may not be able to remember preferences, or fail to load. |
| Google API cookies |
Function-based, Third-party |
Google capture some information as you view some Google Apps or Google Services embedded within our website. Their purposes are both to remember options (such as location, zoom level, view type or part of app), but also to capture analytical information about usage. |
Google API cookies can be blocked in a number of different ways. Google offers an opt-out browser add-on for most modern web browsers, or cookies can be disabled directly within your browser. |
Some services on our website would cease to work correctly, may not be able to remember preferences, or fail to load. |
| SOCITM survey cookies |
Feature-based, Function-based, Third-party |
A site wide survey service, provided by SOCITM, is used by us to obtain feedback about your experience of our website. The service uses cookies to determine whether a customer has previously completed a survey on our website or has declined to take part. The use of a cookie prevents the same customer using the same user account on the same computer from being asked to participate in the survey again during the current survey year. Cookies are set to expire one year after their creation. |
To ensure this cookie is not downloaded, we recommend that you disable cookies directly within your browser. |
If you clear your cookies, either manually or automatically at the end of visiting our site, you may be invited to participate in the survey again the next time you return to our website. In addition, if you visit our website from a different system or using a different user name then you may be invited to participate in the survey again. If you have cookies turned off by default, the service will never invite you to participate in the survey. |
| GovMetric cookie |
Feature-based, Function-based, Third-party |
A service, called GovMetric – which is provided by ROL Solutions Ltd, is used by us to obtain feedback about your experience of our website. The GovMetric service places a cookie on your device from govmetric.com, whenever you rate a page on our website. If the cookie already exists on your device, it is updated when you use this service. The cookie is set to expire at midnight on the day it is created, and it contains a set of values, one for each page rating you have made. These values are identification numbers which link back to a central database (maintained by ROL Solutions Ltd) giving us details of your rating and additional analytical information. |
To ensure this cookie is not downloaded, we recommend that you disable cookies directly within your browser. |
Blocking cookies from this service will provide no reduced service to you, but we may occasionally be unable to determine if additional feedback has been provided in error. |
| Site search cookie |
Setting-based, Third-party |
Our site search engine and A-Z provider, Open Objects, uses technology that will drop a cookie to your device. The purpose of this cookie is to record session information, but this has been disabled for our installation of the service. The cookie is still dropped onto your device, although no information is recorded, and we are working with Open Objects to investigate how we can provide this service without the use of the cookie. |
To ensure this cookie is not downloaded, we recommend that you disable cookies directly within your browser. |
Blocking cookies from this service will provide no reduced service to you. |
| Service directory cookies |
Setting-based, Function-based |
Four cookies are used by various elements of this part of the site. Two of these cookies remember the text size and background settings picked by the visitor. One of the cookies is used to remember the expand view of the category tree on advanced search page.
One cookie is used if you log in, to remember the ID number of your session if you log in. |
To ensure this cookie is not downloaded, we recommend that you disable cookies directly within your browser. |
User won’t be able to change the page background colour or font size. User won’t see an auto-expand view of the category tree. Registered users won’t be able to log-in to the system. |
| YouTube cookie |
Feature-based, Third-party |
Web pages on the site occasionally include embedded YouTube videos. Where this occurs, YouTube can drop standard, and flash-based, cookies to collect analytical information. |
To ensure these cookies are not downloaded, we recommend that you disable cookies directly within your browser. |
Blocking YouTube cookies may prevent some videos from playing properly. |
