Cookie policy

What is a cookie?

This website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of this website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

Cookies help the delivery partners of findbusinessupport.gov.uk to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allow us to improve our website. We assume that you are happy to receive all the cookies that your browser settings allow. You can change your cookie settings at any time.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies - These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.

  • Analytical / performance cookies - They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in this table:

Name

Expiry length

Use

XSRF-TOKEN

Session

This cookie is written to help with site security in preventing Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

travelessex_session

2 hours

This is used to hold information about your current visit with us. This cookie is essential to the security and functionality of the website.

awsalb

Session

This is used to hold and manage session information and routing for the user.

awsalbcors

Session

This is used to hold and manage session information and routing for the user.

Google Analytics

_ga

2 years

Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users.

_gid

24 hours

Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users.

_gat

1 minute

Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

gac

90 days

Contains campaign-related information for the user.

Microsoft Clarity

_clck

1 year

Used by Microsoft Clarity to track user interactions.

_clckid

1 year

Used by Microsoft Clarity to track user interactions.

_clsk

Session

Used by Microsoft Clarity to store session information.

_clskid

Session

Used by Microsoft Clarity to store session information.

clsks

Session

Used by Microsoft Clarity to store session information.

Other Cookies

Accept Cookie

After 2 years

Stores the users acceptance of the cookie policy

This website will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. 

However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by this, or any third party websites, you can do this through your browser settings. The Help function within your browser should tell you how.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit the About cookies website, which contains comprehensive information about cookies and how to restrict or delete cookies on a wide variety of browsers.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the website.

This and our other websites use a number of suppliers who set cookies on our behalf in order to deliver the services that they are providing. We are constantly reviewing our use of cookies and, as such, this cookies policy will be regularly renewed to include up to date information about the cookies used by our suppliers. We would highly recommend that you check this page on a regular basis.

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