Cookie policy

Introduction

Citizens Advice Reading uses cookies - small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience.

We use cookies to:

This makes it easier for you to use our site, and gives us feedback so that we can improve the quality of the site.

However, if you don’t want to receive cookies, you can change the settings in your web browser. You can also delete cookies that have already been set. 

How can I control cookies on my browser?


By using our website, we assume you agree to us adding cookies to your device. If you want to disable, block or remove cookies, you can do this at any time. 

You can find out more about cookies and how to delete them for the most commonly used browsers on the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website.

If your browser is not listed there, click on Help in the settings section of your web browser and search for ‘cookies’.

You can also use a browser add-on to opt out of Google Analytics cookies.


Cookies we use


Name: NID

Purpose: Set by Google to set a unique user ID to remember user preferences. Persistent cookie that stays for 182 days

Provider: google.com

Service: Google

Country: United States

Type: http_cookie

Expires in: 6 months


Name: _ga

Purpose: Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user

Provider: citizensadvicereading.org

Service: Google Analytics

Country: United States

Type: http_cookie

Expires in: 1 year 1 month 4 days


Name: _ga_#

Purpose: Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions 

Provider: citizensadvicereading.org

Service: Google Analytics

Country: United States

Type: http_cookie

Expires in: 1 year 1 month 4 days


Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data

Read Google's privacy policy

Find out more about Google Analytics tracking


Learn more about how we process personal data in our Privacy policies.


Note: Other websites linked from our website are not covered by this policy. Once you have accessed another website via one of our links you will be subject to the cookie and privacy policies of that site.