## Cookie Policy

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. food.gov.uk 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 Cookies on food.gov.uk aren't used to identify you personally.

## Managing Cookies

All major browsers allow you to switch off and manage the cookies. To find out how to use these options, please follow the appropriate link for your browser:
Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Microsoft Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Apple Safari You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing this add-on.

Find out more about how to manage cookies.

## How Cookies Are Used On Food.Gov.Uk Sessionid

Name: JSESSIONID  and PHPSESSID Purpose: These cookies are used to maintain an anonymous user session by the server. Expires: Expires after the end of the user session

## Measuring Website Usage (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use food.gov.uk. 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 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 allow Google to use or share our analytics data.

## Universal Analytics

Name: _ga Purpose: This helps us count how many people visit food.gov.uk by tracking if you've visited before Expires: 2 years Name: _gid Purpose: This helps us count how many people visit food.gov.uk by tracking if you've visited before Expires: 24 hours  (3 days for the 'register a food business' service)
Name: _gat Purpose: Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made. This cookie does not store any user information, Expires: The expiry settings are set by Google Name: acceptAllCookies Purpose: Used to remember whether or not you clicked accept or don't accept for optional cookies Expires: 25 days Name: connect.sid Purpose: Used to persist registration data through the 'register a food business' service Expires: 24 hours

## Google Analytics

Name: _utma Purpose: Like _ga, this lets us know if you've visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to food.gov.uk or to a certain page Expires: 2 years Name: _utmb Purpose: This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on food.gov.uk Expires: 30 minutes Name: _utmc Purpose: This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser Expires: when you close your browser Name: _utmz Purpose: This tells us how you reached food.gov.uk (for example from another website or a search engine)
Expires: 6 months

## Siteimprove

Name: nmstat Purpose: statistics about site usage such as when you last visited the site Typical content: randomly generated number Expires: 1000 days after last visit Name: siteimproveses Purpose: Used to track the sequence of pages you look at during a visit to the site. Expires: when user exits browser Name: szcookiechoice Purpose: Used to determine if you have accepted or declined cookies. Expires: when user exits browser

## Cloudflare

Name: __cfduid Purpose: Set by the CloudFlare to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.

Expires: 5 years Further details on cookies set by Cloudflare.

## Surveymonkey

Sometimes we conduct online surveys to help us better meet our customers' needs. We use SurveyMonkey to collect responses to the survey. If you take part, SurveyMonkey will save extra cookies to your computer to track your progress through it.

Name: mbox, SSOE, TS5159a2 and TSd0b041, ep201, ep202, utma, utmc and utmz Purpose: Online surveys on food.gov.uk.

 View SurveyMonkey's privacy policy.

## Logging In To Our Services

Once you have logged on with username and password, so you don't have to do it for every webpage you request from our service.

Name: AUTH_TOKEN Expires: when user exits browser

## Food Labelling Elearning Course (Food.Gov.Uk/Labellingtraining)

Name: aModulesVisited Purpose: Used to persist a record of user progress so we can give an indication of which modules have been visited.

## Myhaccp Web Tool (Food.Gov.Uk/Myhaccp)

Name: SESS[Unique ID] Purpose: Allows logging in and interacting with the MyHACCP service. Essential for MyHACCP 
site functionality.

Expires: 23 days

## Third Party Cookies Youtube Cookies

We use YouTube to provide videos on some pages of the site. YouTube sets cookies when you visit one of these pages.

Name: use_hitbox Purpose: randomly generated number that identifies your browser Expires: when you close your browser Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Purpose: Lets Youtube count the views of embedded Youtube videos Expires: 9 months Further details on the cookies set by YouTube.

## Facebook Cookies

Name: datr Expires: 2 years Name: lsd Expires: when user exits browser Name: reg_ext_ref Expires: when user exits browser Name: reg_fb_gate Expires: when user exits browser Name: reg_fb_ref Expires: when user exits browser Name: wd Expires: when user exits browser Name: x-referer Expires: when user exits browser

## Twitter Cookies

Twitter may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to improve their service including understanding user interaction, monitor aggregate usage and web traffic routing.

Name: k Typical content: randomly generated number Expires: 1 week Name: guest_id Typical content: randomly generated number Expires: 1 month Name: original_referer Typical content: randomly generated number Expires: when user exits browser Name: external_referer Typical content: randomly generated number Expires: 24 hrs Name: _twitter_sess Typical content: randomly generated number Expires: when user exits browser Name: js Typical content: randomly generated number Expires: 1 month View the Twitter privacy policy