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The Living Made Easy/AskSARA website cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. Our cookies do not give us access to your computer or any information about you.
For further information on cookies and how to remove them, visit About Cookies: how to control cookies.
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.
| Name | Purpose | Content | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| referrer | This tells the site if you have already visited AskSARA, if so the banner appears smaller. | Entry | At the end of session |
| authority | If you were directed to this site from a specific AskSARA authority page, this cookie contains that information. | Entry | At the end of session |
| shown-donation-banner | This stops the donation pop up from being displayed again if you have already seen and closed it. | Donation pop out view | At the end of session |
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure Living Made Easy meets your needs and to understand how we could improve it. For example, the Analytics may tell us that visitors to one of our key pages leave it very quickly and we may need to rename the page or change the content.
| Name | Purpose | Content | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage, e.g. website statistics. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast (Learn more). This cookie records unique visitors to the Living Made Easy website. | Randomly generated number | At the end of session |
| Name | Purpose | Content | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| last-language | This is used to remember the last language AskSARA was viewed the in. It is remembered so next time you visit the site this preference can be applied. | Number | No Expiry |
| as-shown-cookie-consent | Determines if you've already seen the cookie banner or not. If you have it doesn't show the cookie banner again and you can manage cookies at the bottom of the AskSARA website. | True/False | 1 week |
| as-cookie-consent-functional | These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly. | True/False | 1 week |
| as-cookie-consent-tracking | These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. | True/False | 1 week |
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure AskSARA meets your needs and to understand how we could improve it. For example, the Analytics may tell us that visitors to one of our advice pages leave it very quickly and we may need to rename the page or change the content.
| Name | Purpose | Content | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| __utma | Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage, e.g. website statistics. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast (Learn more). This cookie records unique visitors to AskSARA. | Randomly generated number | 2 years |
| __utmb | Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage, e.g. website statistics. This is to ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast (Learn more). This cookie records which pages you visit on AskSARA. | Randomly generated number | 30 minutes |
| __utmc | As above | Randomly generated number | when user exits browser |
| __utmz | Google Analytics cookie which collects information on how our site was reached (e.g. direct or via a link, organic search or paid search) This helps to ensure you reach our advice when you want it and fast (Learn more) | Randomly generated number | 6 months |
| __utmv | an additional Google Analytics cookie – the __utmv cookie – gets set on a visitor's computer, with its sole purpose being to identify the visitor by the label (or value) that you used in the code. (Learn more) | tbc | tbc |
| _ga | The cookie is set to expire 24 months (2 years) and the expiration is refreshed every time a hit is sent. (Learn more) | 2 years | |
| _gid | Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users. | 24 hours |
We do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, you can delete and block the Google Analytics cookies we use on Living Made Easy by clicking on the 'Disable tracking cookies' button to the right. This block will last for two hours, if you use Living Made Easy again after two hours you will need to press the 'Disable tracking cookies' button again.
Alternatively, 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. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
You could also visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to delete cookies on a wide variety of browsers. The site also provides general information about cookies.
You could install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. This add-on communicates with Google Analytics to let it know that information about your website visits should not be sent to Google Analytics. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the Living Made Easy website.
BY CONTINUING TO USE THIS WEBSITE, YOU CONSENT TO THE SETTING OF COOKIES AS DESCRIBED ABOVE (EXCEPT IF YOU HAVE MODIFIED YOUR BROWSER SETTINGS TO REJECT COOKIES, OR CHOSEN TO REJECT THE TRACKING COOKIES).
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