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Visiting pages on this website may produce Analytics cookies.
Analytics cookies
Every time a user visits our website, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie. These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don’t, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site. We use this information to improve the site.
Analytics cookies are used for statistical purposes only.
Cookies we use
Strictly necessary
Name | Provider / Domain | Expiration | Description |
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CookieScriptConsent | bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk | 1 month | This cookie is used by Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences. It is necessary for Cookie-Script.com cookie banner to work properly. |
Performance
Name | Provider / Domain | Expiration | Description |
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_ga_J38J609RYQ | .bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk | 1 year 1 month | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
_ga | .bnssghealthiertogether.org.uk | 1 year 1 month | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
Targeting
Name | Provider / Domain | Expiration | Description |
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YSC | .youtube.com | Session | This cookie is set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | 6 months | This cookie is set by Youtube to keep track of user preferences for Youtube videos embedded in sites;it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the Youtube interface. |
Unclassified
Name | Provider / Domain | Expiration | Description |
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VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | .youtube.com | 6 months | |
nhsuk-cookie-consent | www.nhs.uk | Session |
Turning cookies off
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