Cookies statement
This website's use of cookies
Introduction
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 do not have to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you do not 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 is enough capacity to ensure they are fast
- analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with our services so we can make them better
You can manage these small files and learn more about them from Directgov: Internet Browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them.
For further information on how to remove cookies, visit About Cookies: how to control cookies.
Cookies for managing your current visit
These are cookies set by the LSB website (known as 'first party' cookies). They are used to remember the selections or preferences that you have made when looking at the information on this site.
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- Purpose: When you first arrive at this site you see a grey banner alerting you to our use of cookies. This cookie remembers when you have clicked the link saying "don't show this message again".
- Benefit: To remember the selections or preferences you've already made when looking at information or using a service.
- Data stored by cookie: An instruction to hide the banner.
- Duration of cookie: Expires after 24 months.
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- Purpose: If you use the increase/decrease font size link of any LSB web page ('a A'), this cookie remembers that selection as you move around the site.
- Benefit: To remember the selections or preferences you have already made when looking at information or using a service.
- Data stored by cookie: A number between 0 (smallest) and 3 (largest) indicating the font size to use on the site.
- Duration of cookie: Expires when you close your browser.
LSBcookie-terms
Purpose: This cookie remembers a selection as you move around the site.
- Benefit: To remember the selections or preferences you have already made when looking at information or using a service.
- Data stored by cookie: No personal information about you. A cookie to remember previous visits.
- Duration of cookie: Expires after 24 months.
Third Party Cookies
Cookies for measuring website usage
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it is meeting its users' needs and to understand how we could do it better.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (eg your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics cookies: _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz
- Purpose: To record how many people are using the LSB website and how they move around the site once they have arrived:
•_utma tracks how many times (if any) you have visited the LSB website before
•_utmb and _utmc are connected, and track how long you stay on the site
•_utmz tracks identifies where you have come from, eg from a search engine or from another website. - Benefit: We measure numbers and volumes of visitors so that the service is available when you want it and at the speed you require.
- Data stored by cookies: No personal information about you, just information about your computer and your browser.
- Duration of cookies:
•_utma: Expires two years after your last visit to this site
•_utmb: Expires 30 minutes after your visit, or after 30 minutes of inactivity
•_utmc: Expires when you close your browser
•_utmz: Expires six months after it was last set.
How to control and delete cookies
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 the About Cookies website, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may have an impact upon 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.
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