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 (such as your computer or mobile phone). These include small files known as cookies. We will not use them 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
For more details with regards to cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org. This website provides full information about what cookies are and how to manage them.
Our use of cookies
Cookies detailed below may be stored on your device when visiting this website:
Analytics cookies
We would like to use Google Analytics to help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. These cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone. Please refer to Google's Privacy and terms for all information with regards to how Google uses information from sites or apps that use Google's services.
Google Analytics*
For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Analytics cookie usage webpage
* Google Analytics cookies are used across our websites (pharmacyregulation.org and Pharmacy inspections)
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Name |
Expires |
Purpose |
|---|---|---|
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_ga |
Two years |
Used to distinguish users |
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_ga_<container-id> |
Two years |
Used to persist session state |
Cookies specific to our myGPhC website
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Set by |
Name |
Expires |
Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
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Browser |
localStorage |
One hour after login to myGPhC |
Authentication – It allows access to the site after signing in |
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CIVIC Cookies compliance module |
CookieControl |
Three months after the session ends |
Set in order to remember the user's preferences in regards to cookies |
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GPhC |
ai_user |
One year |
This is a unique user identifier cookie that enables counting of the number of visitors accessing mygphc over time |
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GPhC |
ai_session |
30 mins |
This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie |
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GPhC |
Cookies set by ADB2C |
When visitor closes the browser/sign out |
This helps in maintaining the visitor’s session and helps with prevention against Cross-Site Request Forgery |
Cookies specific to our myGPhCpharmacy website
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Name |
Expires |
Purpose
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|---|---|---|
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.ASPXAUTH |
20 minutes after the visitor's last action on the site |
Authentication - it allows access to the site after signing in. Also, it automatically logs the visitor out 20 minutes after of inactivity on myGPhCpharmacy website |
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ASP.NET_SessionId |
At the end of the session (closing the browser window) |
Used to identify a visitor's browser session |
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MyGphcPharmacySignIn |
At the end of the session (signing out of myGPhCpharmacy or closing the browser window) |
Used to identify the visitor whilst signed in, to do so it uses the following fields:
This information is encrypted to protect the visitor's privacy |
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fontSize |
One year |
Remembers the visitor's preferred font size so that it doesn't need to be changed on every visit |
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