Privacy

Cookies

We do not make use of cookies to collect any private or personally identifiable information.

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive while they are visiting a particular website. It contains simple information about the user’s identity but no personal information. When the user closes their browser, the cookie is destroyed.

We only use cookies to help us improve the functionality of our website. The cookies used by our system contain random strings of characters alongside minimal information about the state and session of the website – which in no way collects or discloses any personal information about you as a visitor. Please see below for more information.

Cookie Name

Purpose

More information

useTextOnly

This is used to store whether you are in textOnly mode or not.

Persistent for three months.

 

setString

This is used to store user preferences for viewing sites in textOnly mode e.g. font-size and colour. It is written only on sites which use the text only option.

Persistent for one month.

 

SitekitLogin

This is used to store the username and password for ‘remember my login’ feature on extranets.

Persistent for one month.

 

AcceptCookies

This is used to store whether you have agreed to receive cookies.

Persistent for one year.

 

Google Analytics

_ga _gat _gid

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Click here for an overview of privacy at Google

SKDxxx

(xxx being the unique identifier)

This cookie has two functions.

Firstly it serves as a session cookie for extranet users. Without this cookie, an extranet user will have to login to each individual page in the extranet.

It also enables us to track the pages that a user visits while they navigate around the site.

Persistent for one year, unless user logs out.

SKTID

For tracking logged out visitor sessions

Persistent for one year.

 

 

External sites

Our website contains links to other sites. Our organisation is not responsible for the privacy practices within any of these other sites. We encourage you to be aware of this when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit which collect personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies only to this website