How we use Cookies
This website site and some of the tools and services it links to use a number of cookies. These cookies are listed below with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.
Measuring website usage
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use our website. We do this to make sure it’s meeting people's needs and to understand how we could meet those needs 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 details such as your name or address. We cannot identify who you are.
We do not allow Google to use or share any information we collect with other third parties.
| Name of cookie | Typical content | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | randomly generated number | 2 years |
| _gat | randomly generated number | 10 minutes |
Service availability
We use cookies which help improve service availability and security across this website.
| Name of cookies | Typical content | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| NIGOV | randomly generated number | when you close your browser |
| NIGOV_.thisdomain.gov.uk _%2F_wat | randomly generated number | when you close your browser |
Remembering your settings
This website uses cookies to remember if you have received the cookie warning message so that this message doesn't appear more than once.
| Name of cookie | Typical content | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| EUCompliance | on | 1 year |
We also set cookies to remember your display preferences.
| Name of cookie | Typical content | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| has_js | 1 | when you close your browser |
| Drupal.tableDrag.showWeight | 0 | 1 year |
Applications that we link to
We link to a number of external applications belonging to this Department. Where a launch page exists for an application, information about Cookies it uses are highlighted on that page.
'Third-party' cookies
Third-party cookies are cookies created by a website other than the one you are currently visiting. We currently embed services from third party websites to provide extra functionality.
Google Maps
This website uses Google Maps to provide visual geo-location information on various government organisations and services.
For more information please visit Google's Privacy Policy.
YouTube
This website embeds videos from YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set the following cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
For more information please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
Social sharing
This website uses the AddToAny social bookmarking tool to enable social sharing icons for Facebook and Twitter.
For more information please visit AddToAny's Privacy Policy.
| Name of cookie | Typical content | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| __cfduid | dc7f583ead5c33a03e26918dbb26849ec1433757596 | 1 year |
| page_services | tumblr%2Cfacebook%2Ctwitter | 10 years |
| uvc | 1 | 1 day |
| __utma | randomly generated number | 2 years |
| __utmb | randomly generated number | 30 minutes |
| __utmc | randomly generated number | when you close your browser |
| __utmz | randomly generated number | 6 months |