Cookies policy
What are they?
In short a cookie is a small text file placed on your computer, tablet or phone or other device when you access the internet.
Why we use them
This website, and many others, use cookies. Cookies are in place to let you navigate around our content, and where appropriate, tailor the content to fit your needs. If we were to not use cookies we can't guarantee the websites will perform how they were intended to, thus creating a different and unpredictable service.
Different types
Session cookies are the temporary cookies which only exist when you're in a session on our website. These delete once the browser is closed. These are in place to help retain information and choice from the previous page. E.g when filling in multiple page forms, these cookies retain the information as you progress. Persistent cookies remain on your devise after your visit to our portals. When you login, we may have a remember me, or keep me logged in action tick box. This identifies you as a unique visitor but doesn't contain information that could reveal your identity.
Use of cookies
Google Analytics - which uses cookies to help us analyse how our visitors use our websites. Find out more about how these cookies are used on the Google privacy site
Google Translate – You may have seen this google product before. This allows the content of a website to be translated into any language for the user. This system is often automatically presented by your browser. If you engage with this tool, it may place a cookie on your device to offer the future translation services to you.
Cookiescriptaccept – This is the pop up acceptance cookie and privacy system that offers first session users the opportunity to see our privacy policy, and choose whether they continue to use the web portals.
Disable cookies
If you have any concerns about the cookies our websites maybe using you have the right to disable these.
Browser control
Most browsers offer you self-management of the cookie settings. These settings can usually be found in the 'Settings', 'Options' or 'Preferences' menu of your browser.We suggest that google chrome is the best operating browser for our websites and the following links are to assist you in managing these cookies.
- Manage cookie settings in Chrome and Chrome Android and Chrome iOS
- Manage cookie settings in Safari and Safari iOS
- Manage cookie settings in Firefox
- Manage cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Manage cookie settings in Opera
Please note that any listed sites are not in the control of Environmental Protection UK, so we are not responsible for their content or operation.