Privacy and 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, 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
Our use of cookies
The PfS website makes use of four first-party cookies as part of Google Analytics, a service used across the internet industry which lets us measure how many people visit our site and use its services.
No personal data is ever collected about our website visitors.
These cookies are:
- __utma
This cookie is used to determine unique visitors our site. - __utmb
This cookie is used to establish and continue a user session with our site. It expires after 30 minutes. - __utmc
This cookie operates in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether or not to establish a new session for the user. - __utmz
This cookie stores the type of referral used by the visitor to reach our site, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link.