This page explains how we use cookies on our website.
When someone visits our website we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things like the number of visitors to various parts of the site. This information is processed in a way which does not identify any individual.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish one user of our website from another. This helps us to provide a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. The information collected includes the number of site visitors, where visitors come to the site from and the page they visited.
We use the following cookies:
- Analytical/performance cookies. These 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.
- Search/digital display/social remarketing cookies.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use, and why we use them, in the table below:
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Expires | More information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics |
This cookie enables us to distinguish users and estimate our audience size and usage pattern. |
2 years | For further details on Google Analytics cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, read about cookies set by Google Analytics. We do not currently use Google advertising cookies on fca.org.uk. |
| nmstat | Siteimprove analytics |
This cookie enables us to distinguish users and is used to collect statistics about site usage, such as when the visitor last visited the site. |
1000 days | For further details on Siteimprove cookies, visit Siteimprove privacy. |
| siteimproveses | Siteimprove analytics |
This cookie enables us to identify order of pages a visitor looks at during a visit. |
Maximum time allowed by browser | For further details on Siteimprove cookies, visit Siteimprove privacy. |
| Cookie-agreed | Drupal – content management cookies | Typical content: Boolean. | 3 months | We use Drupal cookies to display and remember content based on selections you have already made. |
| has_js | Drupal – content management cookies | Typical content: Boolean. | When user closes the page | We use Drupal cookies to display and remember content based on selections you have already made. |
| mixpanel | Buto – video platform cookies | Used to store a session identifier for videos with interactive elements. | 1 year | |
| JSESSIONID | New Relic cookies | Used to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. | Deleted when the browser closes | You can find out more about New Relic Browser’s security measures on the New Relic Browser website. |
| Bing Universal Event Tag | Bing Search | We will capture cookie data using this tag. This will enable us to re-target users via search. | 180 days | For further details on Bing Universal Event cookies, visit Bing ads. |
| ScamSmart and PPI campaigns | ||||
| AdWords Re-marketing Tag | Google AdWords | We will capture cookie data using this tag. This will enable us to re-target users via search. | 90 to 540 days | For further details on Google AdWords cookies, visit AdWords Help. |
| _fbp | This cookie allows us to measure the performance of our Facebook advertising and serve targeted adverts on the Facebook platform. | 90 days | For further details on Facebook cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit cookies set by Facebook. | |
| _glc_dc | Doubleclick | This cookie is used as a means of tracking your website activity to help us optimise our advertising. | 1 year | For further details on Doubleclick cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit cookies set by Doubleclick. |
| guest_id | This cookie allows us to measure the performance of our Twitter advertising and serve targeted adverts on the Twitter platform. | 2 years | For further details on Twitter cookies, including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit cookies set by Twitter. |
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
For more information about cookies (including how to turn them off), visit allaboutcookies.org