Cookies
Our service puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.
Cookies are used to:
- measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
- remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again
Find out more about how to manage cookies.
How cookies are used on our service
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use our service. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit on our service
- how long you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We don’t collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are.
We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | This helps us count how many people visit GOV.UK by tracking if you’ve visited before | 2 years |
| _gid | This helps us count how many people visit GOV.UK by tracking if you’ve visited before | 24 hours |
| _gat_gtag_UA_xxxxxxxx | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | 10 minutes |
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies.
Our cookies
We use cookies to allow correct functioning of the site
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| lpg-ui | Keeps track of your session | 9 hours |
| ARRAffinity | Keeps track of your session | When you close your browser |
| seen_cookie_message | Saves a message to let us know that you’ve seen our cookie message | 1 month |