Cookie policy
This cookie policy provides information on cookies the trust uses on its websites, what they are for and how you as an individual users can control or block them using your browser. Cookies are used to ensure you get the best experience on our websites. By continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
This Cookie Policy covers the following websites
What is a Cookie?
Cookies are little data files that are placed onto the hardware device which you use to browse the internet (e.g. your Computer, Smartphone or Tablet, your “device”) by websites that you visit. Cookies contain information about your visits to that website and the purpose of cookies is to enable our websites to remember you, and your browsing habits, when you visit it again in the future. You can learn more about cookies from the GOV.UK guidance on cookies.
Cookies are used to improve services for you by, for example:
- recognise when you have recently visited our website, so single view messages are not repeatedly shown
- enabling the service to recognise your device so you do not need to give the same information repeatedly
- recognising when you have already given a username and password so that you do not need to do so for every subsequent web page you visit
- improving services we provide by providing you with a personalised journey, where applicable
- measuring how many people are using the services we provide, so we can make them easier and faster to use
- analysing data, anonymously, to help us understand how people interact with our website services.
How can I opt out of cookies?
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies/tags, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Turning off cookies is something you have to do for each device you use. That means, if you turn off cookies on your desktop it won’t affect the cookies on your mobile. To turn off cookies on every device, you’ll have to follow the steps on each of your devices. Just so you know, turning off cookies doesn’t delete cookies from your browser. You’ll need to do this from your browser’s settings:
Category - Necessary
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Provider | Expiry | Data is sent to: |
| JSESSIONID | Preserves users states across page requests. | nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk | Session | United Kingdom - Adequate under GDPR |
| local_storage_support_test | The cookie is used in context with the local-storage function in the browser. This function allows the web site to load faster by pre-loading certain procedures. | twitter.com | Persistent | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
Category - Preferences
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Provider | Expiry | Data is sent to: |
| lang | Remembers the user's selected language version of a web site | cdn.syndication.twimg.com | Session | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
Category - Statistics
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Provider | Expiry | Data is sent to: |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | Google Analytics | 2 years | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | Google Analytics | 1 day | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | Google Analytics | 1 say | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to help us see how our website is used. In doing so information about your use of our website, including your IP address, may be transmitted to Google and stored on servers in the United States. The data collected by Google Analytics is used to analyse how frequently the same people revisit our websites, how the website is found (from social media, emails or other referring websites), and which pages are most frequently viewed. This information is combined with data from thousands of other users to create an overall picture of website use, and is never identified individually or personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you.
Category - Marketing
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. Whilst we do not actively include third party adverts on any of our websites, we do embed videos from YouTube and links to our social media accounts directly into some of our web pages. These third-party systems do collect information for marketing purposes. We have no control over cookies set on other websites. They can be turned off, but not through our websites.
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Provider | Expiry | Data is sent to: |
| __widgetsettings | Used to track and analyse social advertising across the Twitter platform | twitter.com | Persistent | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
| ads/ga-audiences | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across web sites | google.com | Session | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
| GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location | youtube.com | 1 day | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
| i/jot/syndication | Pending | twitter.com | Session | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
| IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the web site user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user | doubleclick.net | 1 year | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
| test_cookie | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | doubleclick.net | 1 day | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' band width on pages with integrated YouTube videos | youtube.com | 179 days | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen | youtube.com | Session | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
| yt-remote-cast-installed yt-remote-fast-check-period yt-remote-session-app yt-remote-session-name |
Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | youtube.com | Session | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
| yt-remote-connected-devices yt-remote-device-id |
Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | youtube.com | Persistent | United States - Adequate under GDPR |
This page was last updated on 31 May 2023.