What are Cookies?
In order to monitor and improve the experience of our website and services, we may use in-house and third-party tracking technologies and tools, such as cookies and the analysis of log files. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on the PC, smartphone, tablet or other device that you use to browse our site. Cookies are used to collect information about how you use our site. Our cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information. Common uses for cookies include:
- collecting information about pages that are visited most often
- finding out if visitors get any error messages from our web pages
- seeing which links visitors follow or don’t follow
Google Analytics Cookies
Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions. These cookies are used to store non-personally identifiable information, such as
- What time the current visit occurred
- What pages are viewed
- What searches are performed
For more information about this cookie, visit the Google Advertising Privacy FAQ. To manage your settings for this cookie and opt-out of this feature, visit the Ads Preferences Manager. Google Display Network also collects Interest-based advertising data such as age, gender and interests.
The data stored by these cookies never shows personal details from which your individual identity can be established.
Why we use cookies
Cookies help us to make our site better suited to your needs. Our cookies do not store personal information - such as your name, address, or phone number - in a format that other people can read. Our cookies cannot look at, read or search any other information held on your device or your hard drive about you or your family. The website that places a cookie owns that cookie. This means only that particular website can read the information stored using a cookie.
How to manage cookies
Your web browser has settings that enable you to choose how to manage cookies or to switch them off. Switching off cookies may mean that you can no longer make use of all of the services on our website. You can find out more about managing and switching off cookies at the independent website: allaboutcookies.org
Links to external sites
Care UK cannot be held responsible for the privacy practices or content on external websites. If you visit an external site from a link on our site, we recommend that you read their privacy and cookie policies, as we are not responsible or liable for anything on that site.