Cookies and privacy policy
What does this cookie and privacy cover?
This policy covers:
- www.adultsocialcare.co.uk
Your privacy
These web pages are covered by Skills for Care's privacy policy. These pages feature extra tracking cookies which aren't on the Skills for Care website so are listed below.
How cookies are used on this website
We put small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.
Cookies are used to:
- remember your progress
- measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
Cookies aren’t used to identify you personally.
You can erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. If you want to know how to do this please look at the help menu on your web browser. Otherwise, we’ll assume you’re OK to continue using cookies. Find out more about how to manage cookies here:
www.cookiecentral.com or www.aboutcookies.org
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use our website. We do this to help improve the quality of the content for visitors and ensure you can find what you need.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- what 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 collect or store any personal information so this information can’t be used to identify who you are. We also do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
These are the cookies that Google place on our website:
Name
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Purpose
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Expires
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_ga
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This helps us count how many people visit our website by tracking if you’ve visited before
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2 years
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_gat
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Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made
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10 Minutes
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_gid
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This helps us count how many people visit our website by tracking if you’ve visited before
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24 Hours
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Measuring website usage from advertising (Floodlight)
We use cookies to make our advertising more engaging and relevant to users. We use cookie information to focus our advertising on what’s relevant to specific users, to improve performance reporting, and to avoid showing ads that the user has already seen.
For example, we use cookies to remember your most recent searches, your previous interactions with our ads or search results, and your visits to our website.
We may also use data from conversion cookies to determine how many people who click on our ads.
We use Floodlight measurement to count how many people visit our website after viewing or clicking on one of our ads. More details can be found here: https://support.google.com/dcm/partner/answer/2823388?hl=en
These are the cookies that Floodlight place on our website:
Name
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Purpose
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Expires
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IDE
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Used to count how many people visit our website after viewing or clicking on one of our ads
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1 year
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Digital audio cookie (DAX)
More information on the full privacy policies relating to this cookie can be found here: https://thisisdax.com/cookies-policy/
Name
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Purpose
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Expires
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_oaid
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To track the performance of digital audio activity for campaign optimisation and reporting
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90 days
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_xl8id
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To track the performance of digital audio activity for audience insight
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90 days
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Facebook Cookie
More info on this can be found via their privacy policy: https://en-gb.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy
Name
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Purpose
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Expires
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_fbp’
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To attribute site actions to paid media conversion via the Facebook platform. More information on this can be found via Facebook’s privacy policy: https://en-gb.facebook.com/full_data_use_policy
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1 year
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