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:
Necessary cookies
This set of cookies enable core functionality such as security and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may have an adverse effect on how our website behaves.
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Set by |
Name |
Expires |
Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
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GPhC |
has_js |
At the end of the session (closing the browser window) |
Records whether a visitor's browser has JavaScript enabled |
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CIVIC Cookies compliance module |
CookieControl |
After three months |
Set in order to remember the user's preferences in regards to cookies |
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ReciteMe accessibility tool ReciteMe is a cloud-based web accessibility solution which enables visitors to customise the website to their needs. You can launch ReciteMe on our website by clicking on the links that appear on the top blue banner within the header. These cookies only become active if you enable the ReciteMe toolbar that appears within the header of this website. |
Recite.Persist |
At the end of the session (closing the browser window |
This stores a flag to indicate whether the toolbar should persist between pages or not |
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Recite.Preferences |
Persists until visitors clears cookies |
This stores the users current settings so that they can be reapplied on subsequent pages |
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 all our websites (pharmacyregulation.org, myGPhC and myGPhCpharmacy)
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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 |
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_gid |
24 hours |
Used to distinguish users |
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_gat |
One minute |
Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_property-id> |
Third party cookies
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing service. Videos are uploaded to YouTube channels and can be embedded on web pages. For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Types of Cookies used by Google
Please note that these cookies will only get activated if you watch one of the videos embedded on this website that we host via youtube.com
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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ai_session |
30 mins |
This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie |
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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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