To make our website, bcpcouncil.gov.uk and our online forms portal, onlinebcpcouncil.gov.uk, easier to use, we place small files on your device (for example your iPad or laptop) called cookies. Most big websites do this too.
Cookies improve things by:
- remembering the things you’ve chosen while on our website, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page
- measuring how you use the website so we can make sure it meets your needs
By using our website or online forms portal, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
We don’t use cookies on this website that collect information about what other websites you visit (often referred to as privacy intrusive cookies).
Our cookies aren’t used to identify you personally. They’re just here to make the site work better for you. You can manage and/or delete these files as you wish.
Find out more about how to manage cookies.
We use the following cookies on our website bcpcouncil.gov.uk:
- Google Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- YouTube videos
- Azure
- AnchorFM
- Cookie Control
We use the following cookies on our portal online.bcpcouncil.gov.uk
- Google Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Azure
- Session
We use the following cookies on our portal bcpportal.bcpcouncil.gov.uk
- Google Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Azure
- Session
Information about the cookies we use
Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
The names of the cookies we use for Google are:
- _ga
- _gid
- _gat
We use these to:
- collect information about how visitors use our site
- compile reports and to help us improve our site
This data is collected in an anonymous form and includes:
- the number of visitors to the site
- where the users have come from
- the pages our users visited
You can find an overview of Google’s data privacy and security pages and use their opt-out tool.
YouTube videos
The names of the cookies we use for YouTube videos are:
- VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
- YSC
YouTube uses these cookies to:
- measure your bandwidth to determine which interface it uses (expires after 8 months)
- remembers a user’s input and associate’s a user’s actions (expires when the browser is closed)
You can view more information about YouTube’s privacy policy in Google’s privacy policy.
Azure
The names of the cookies we use for Azure are:
- ARRAffinitySameSite
- ARRAffinity
These are used to make sure that your page requests are all directed to the same server for each session. They expire when you close your browser.
AnchorFM
The names of the cookies we use for AnchorFM are:
- ki_t
- reduxPersist%3AlocalStorage
- __stripe_mid
- _gcl_au
- reduxPersistIndex
- __stripe_sid
- reduxPersist%3AvoiceMessageCreationModalScreen
- reduxPersist%3Aonboarding
- reduxPersist%3Acompliance
- _ga
- reduxPersist%3Atutorial
- __pdst
- _scid
- _fbp
- _gid
AnchorFM use these cookies to manage your preferences when you listen to our podcasts and last from 1 day to 5 years.
Cookie Control
The name of the cookie that Cookie Control uses is
- CookieControl
This is used to remember your cookie preferences on our websites. It expires after 90 days.
Session
The names of the cookies we use for Session are:
- .Asp.net.ApplicationCookie
- timeZoneCode
- timezoneoffset
- ContextLanguageCode
- ARRAffinitySameSite
- __RequestVerificationToken
- NET_SessionID
Session uses these cookies to:
- identify an individual user session to enable authentication
- save the user’s time zone
- save the user’s language preference
- load balancing our application and ensures that, during any browsing session, the visitor's page requests are forwarded to the same server
- anti-forgery to stop unauthorised posting to the website
- stores a unique identifier for each visit to retain session state across multiple pages
Payments Portal
Our payment portals may also use cookies for secure payment processing. We have not restricted these cookies.