Cookies policy
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In this section, you will find information on what cookies may be set when you visit a VADM Centre for Ethnic Minority Health website and how to manage them. This Cookies policy applies to the websites of VADM Centre Ethnic Minority Mental Health (VADM CEMMH)
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What are cookies?
Can I opt out of cookies?
First-party cookies
Third-party cookies
Social networking tools
External web services
What are Flash cookies?
What are web beacons?
(Last updated April 2012)
What are cookies?
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 (e.g. 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 a username and password 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 government services so we can make them better
If you'd like to learn how to remove cookies set on your device, visit the About Cookies website.
Can I opt out of cookies?
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We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies that 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.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.
For information on how to manage cookies on your mobile phone, games console or internet-enabled television, you will need to refer to your manual.
To opt out of third-parties collecting any data regarding your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information.
First-party cookies
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Here is a list of the main cookies set by VADM CEMMH and what each is used for.
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Session cookies |
Every time you visit, we use a session cookie to remember things like selections you've made and what you've put in your basket. These we consider necessary to the working of the site. If these cookies are disabled then a range of functionality will not work.
Learn more about session cookies:
AllAboutCookies website |
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Omniture |
These cookies are used to carry out statistical analysis of page use, interactions and user paths. We use this to understand how the site is being used and improve the user experience. User data is anonymous. |
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Google Analytics |
These cookies are used to carry out statistical analysis of page use, interactions and user paths. We use this to understand how the site is being used and improve the user experience. User data is anonymous. |
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New Relic |
This service helps us understand the speed and technical performance of our sites so we can monitor and improve it. User data is anonymous. |
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Third-party cookies
VADM CEMMH uses a number of suppliers who may set cookies on our behalf in order to deliver certain services. Here is a list of some cookies that may be set by third-parties. Please be aware that we do not control these cookies. If you would like more information about the cookies used by these suppliers, as well as information on how to opt out, please see their individual privacy policies (listed below).
Social networking tools
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On some pages, we feature embedded 'share' buttons or widgets that enable you to share content with friends through a number of popular social networking sites (eg Google+1; Twitter; Facebook 'Like' etc). These sites may set cookies which can identify you personally when you are also logged in to their services. This means they may be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on VADM CEMMH sites. We do not control these cookies and you should check the relevant third-party website to see how your information is used and how to opt out.
External web services
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Sometimes, we also embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube and Flickr. As a result, when you visit a page which features such content, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. As with the social networking tools (above), we cannot prevent these sites or domains from collecting information on your use of this content. If you are not logged in to their services then they will not know who you are but may still gather anonymous usage information (eg number of views, plays, loads etc). We do not control these cookies and you should check the relevant third-party website for more information about them and how you can opt out.
What are Flash cookies?
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Flash cookies are collected via Adobe Flash media player (also called a local shared object). This is a piece of software that you probably have on your computer, and which allows you to watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
How to disable Flash cookies
The Adobe website has comprehensive information on how to delete or disable Flash cookies, either for a specific domain like VADM CEMMH.gov.uk, or for all websites. Please be aware that restricting the use of Flash cookies may affect some of the Flash-based applications available to you on vadm.co.uk.
What are web beacons?
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Some of our pages contain electronic images known as web beacons (or clear gifs), which allow us to count the number of visitors to these pages. Web beacons are usually only used to track the effectiveness of a particular advertisement, link or campaign. Some of these web beacons may be placed by third-party advertisers.
You can visit the AllAboutCookies website
to find out more about web beacons.
