Privacy Policy
The 'I have a question' page of this website provides information about 'How did you get my personal details' and 'How will my personal details be handled' - this explains how personal data is used for the Under 16 Cancer Patient Experience Survey.
Information about our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
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.
We currently only use 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 find what they are looking for easily.
The individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them are:
Cookie: _ga
Expiry: 2 years
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website
Cookie: _gat
Expiry: 1 day
Purpose: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.
Cookie: _gid
Expiry: 1 day
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Cookie: user-type
Expiry: session
Purpose: the choice the user makes on the user type banner.
Cookie: cookie-agreed
Expiry: 8 days
Purpose: whether the user agrees to cookies or not, on the cookie banner.
Cookie: cookie-agreed-version
Expiry: 8 days
Purpose: this is linked to the cookie module as well.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You 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.