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Cookie Policy

Care England is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users; in this policy we explain how we will handle your personal data.

Last updated: 02/08/2018

Care England (“us”, “we”, or “our”) uses cookies on the https://www.careengland.org.uk/ website (the “Service”). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.

Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What are cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

How Care England uses cookies

When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • To enable certain functions of the Service
  • To provide analytics

We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:

Essential cookies. We may use cookies to remember information that changes the way the Service behaves or looks, such as a user’s language preference on the Service.
Analytics cookies. We may use analytics cookies to track information how the Service is used so that we can make improvements. We may also use analytics cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the Service to see how our users react to them.

has_js: Registers whether or not the user has activated JavaScript in the browser.

__utm.gif: Google Analytics Tracking Code that logs details about the visitor’s browser and computer.

__utma: Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics.

__utmb: Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.

__utmc: Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit.

__utmt: Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server.

__utmz: Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics.

GPS: Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE: Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

YSC: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

yt-remote-cast-installed: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-connected-devices: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-device-id: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-fast-check-period: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-session-app: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-session-name: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt.innertube::nextId: Unclassified

yt.innertube::requests: Unclassified

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

What are your choices regarding cookies

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

For the Chrome web browser, please visit this page from Google: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050

For the Internet Explorer web browser, please visit this page from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835

For the Firefox web browser, please visit this page from Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored

For the Safari web browser, please visit this page from Apple: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=en_US

For any other web browser, please visit your web browser’s official web pages.

Where can you find more information about cookies

You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:

AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/