Cookies

Cookies are small files saved on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website.

We use cookies for services like our translation and text size tools. For example, they will remember which language you have chosen as you browse our websites.

We also use them to understand how people use our website. It is useful for us to know which pages are popular, and which topics people are searching for information on.

The cookies on NCHA’s websites:

Allow you to customise your experience – changing the text size and colour
Provide us with statistics about the numbers of people visiting our websites, and the pages they look at.

Essential cookies

Essential cookies are small and essential bits of data that websites like ours need to function correctly. We do not need to ask permission to use them.

Essential cookies in use on our websites include:

Cookie control – this saves your cookie consent settings, and lasts for three months
ARRAffinitySameSite – this supports our online chat tool, and lasts for the duration of your current visit to the website
ARRAffinty – this controls which server your device uses to access our websites, and lasts for the duration of your current visit to the website.

Analytics cookies

With your permission, we use Google Analytics to collect data about how you use this service. The information helps us to improve our service.

Google is not allowed to use or share our analytics data with anyone.

The cookies in use are:

_ga – this registers a unique ID so that statistics can be collected, and it lasts for one year
_ga_CWG5Z87B2L – this keeps track of visits (sessions and state) for analytics. It lasts for one year
_gid – this is a unique ID to measure visitor usage of the website, and it lasts for one day.

Managing cookies

You can manage cookies in your web browser: