Cookies
How we use cookies
We want to make services we deliver on the internet easy, and our content richer and relevant. This sometimes involves placing cookies on your computer or mobile device.
Cookies are simple pieces of data stored on your hard drive. They are safe as they cannot be used to spread viruses. Cookies we use cannot be used to identify you personally as no personal information such as telephone numbers or email addresses is in these cookies.
Cookies we use
Operational cookies
These cookies expire as soon as a user quits their browser.
These cookies are necessary for our site to operate and do not contain personal data. We consider these cookies necessary to provide a service to the user.
- __cfduid - is used to protect the security of the site by determining genuine visitors from bots. It expires after one year.
Usage and analytics cookies
We use Google Analytics to collect statistical data about our visitors. We collect this information in a way that does not identify you and the data is not shared with anybody else.
- _ga expires after 2 years. Distinguishes users.
- _gid expires after 24 hours. Distinguishes users.
- _gat expires after 1 minute. Used to throttle request rate.
- _gac_ expires after 90 days. Contains campaign related information for the user.
Information on how to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites and Google's use of cookies can be found on Google Analytics opt-out and Google privacy pages.
Third-party cookies
Our website may contain an embedded content and social media third-party cookies.
Cookies placed on your computer or mobile device from a third party are not related to edinburghguarantee.org. We do not control how a third party uses their cookies. Please check third party websites' privacy policies.
Our site has a number of pages with embedded videos or other content that utilise cookies from a third party to enable this.
Deleting cookies
You can delete cookies from your device and change cookies setting in your browser: How to delete cookies.