Cookies In Use on This Site

 

Cookies and how they Benefit You

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

 

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you'd expect
  • Save you having to login every time you visit the site
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

 

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions

 

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

 

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

 

More about our Cookies

 

Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Determining if you are logged in or not
  • Remembering your search settings
  • Remembering your preferences such as colours, text size and layout

 

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

 

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

 

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics†programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

 

We use:

 

Below is a list of the cookies featured on http://www.london-probation.org.uk 

 

Domain Name Expires Information
www.london-probation.org.uk __utma 2 Years Google Analytics 
  __utmb Session Google Analytics 
  __utmc Session Google Analytics 
  __utmm 1 Year Google Analytics 
/system_pages/accessibility.aspx ASP.NET_SessionId Session This cookie contains the user's session ID for accessibility options.
  StylePicker:fontsize 1 Year Accessibility option for fontsize.
  StylePicker:colourscheme 1 Year Accessibility option for colour scheme.
/about_us/publications/video.aspx* use_hitbox Session

This is used by the website to store and show video content. These cookies are set by YouTube to track usage of its services.

*Video embed with 'Enable privacy-enhanced mode'

 

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/
  VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 7 months

Unique identifiers given to each computer to allow tracking of YouTube video views. Data is only used in aggregate.

*Video embed with 'Enable privacy-enhanced mode'.

 

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/
/system_pages/borough_offices_map2.aspx  PREF 2 Years

These cookies are used by Google to store user preferences and information when viewing pages with Google maps on them.

 

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/
   NID 6 Months

These cookies are used by Google to store user preferences and information when viewing pages with Google maps on them.

 

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/policies/

 

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here).  Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our's and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites

 

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.  Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.