Privacy and 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 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
• analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with government services so we can make them better

You can manage these small files and learn more about them from the BBC article What are cookies?

If you’d like to learn how to remove cookies set on your device, find out more at All About Cookies.

Essential cookies

Third-party cookies

Google analytics

The main Work Right website and uses Google analytics to allow us to measure how the site is used and to improve the service.

So the following cookies are served on all the above.

Google analytics cookies

Name	Provider	Purpose	Expiry	Type
_ga	Google Tag Manager	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	2 years	Usage
_gid	Google Tag Manager	Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.	1 day	Usage
_dc_gtm_G-PXSKTSD307	Google Tag Manager	This cookie is associated with sites using Google Tag Manager to load other scripts and code into a page. Where it is used it may be regarded as Strictly Necessary as without it, other scripts may not function correctly. The end of the name is a unique number which is also an identifier for an associated Google Analytics account.		Usage
_gaexp	Google Optimize	Used to determine a user’s inclusion in an experiment and the expiry of experiments a user has been included in.	Depends on the length of the experiment, but typically 90 days.	Usage
_gat_G-PXSKTSD307	Google Analytics	This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.		Usage
_gali	Google Analytics			Usage

Social media

The code provided by Twitter to include Twitter functionality on our website may set cookies. For information about Twitter cookies go to the Twitter privacy policy.

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 www.aboutcookies.org 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 impact on 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.