The JAC website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful and reliable. This page explains what they are, which ones we use, and how you can manage or remove them.
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
• enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
• recognising that you may already have given an email address so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
• measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
• analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with govt services so we can make them better.
You can manage these small files and learn more about them from Directgov: How government websites use cookies
Cookies for measuring website usage
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it's meeting its users' needs and to understand how we could do it better.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics cookies: _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz
Purpose: To record how many people are using the JAC website and how they move around the site once they've arrived:
o _utma tracks how many times (if any) you have visited the JAC website before.
o _utmb and _utmc are connected, and track how long you stay on the site.
o _utmz tracks identifies where you've come from e.g. from a search engine or from another website.
Benefit: So service is available when you want it and fast, we measure numbers and volumes of visitors.
Data stored by cookies: No personal information about you, just information about your computer and your browser.
Duration of cookies:
o _utma: Expires 2 years after your last visit to this site.
o _utmb: Expires 30 minutes after your visit, or after 30 minutes of inactivity.
o _utmc: Expires when you close your browser.
o _utmz: Expires 6 months after it was last set.
SurveyMonkey: ep201, ep202, TSc1209a, TS54026e, TS39fa47, P_14552132, P_19807288
Purpose: We sometimes link to online surveys (from our Consultations, for example) created using Survey Monkey. These cookies may be set if you follow one of these links to complete a survey.
Benefit: When we provide links to third party services you find useful, they may place a cookie on your device to make their service easier to use.
Data stored by the cookie: None contains personal information; all data is used in aggregate form.
Duration of cookie: All expire when you close your browser, except ep202, which expires after 366 days.
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Purpose: This cookie detects whether or not you choose to hide the cookies alert message on the jac.judiciary.gov.uk site.
Benefit: Once you have clicked the 'Thanks, I've read this' button the pop-up window will not appear again.
Data stored by cookies: No personal information about you, just information about your computer and your browser.
Duration of cookie: Expires 2 years after you first clicked the 'Thanks, I've read this' button.
How to control and delete cookies
We 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 our websites, or indeed any other website, 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 on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.