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Details about cookies

This service puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer.

These cookies are used to:

  • help us understand how you use the webservice, so we can make improvements
  • remember what notifications you’ve seen so you’re not shown them more than once
  • temporarily store the selections you make

Find out more about how to manage cookies.

Cookies that measure website usage

We use Google Analytics software (Universal Analytics) to collect anonymised information about how you use the service. We do this to help make sure the service is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.

We do not allow Google to use or share the data about how you use this service.

Google Analytics stores information about:

  • how you got to the service
  • the pages you visit on this service and how long you spend on them
  • what you click on while you’re visiting the service

We may also set our own cookies to understand how people move through the service.

Name Purpose Expires
_ga Used by Google Analytics, this registers a unique ID to generate statistics about how you use the website 1 year
_gat Google Analytics throttling rate request 1 year
_gid Google Analytics cookie that registers a unique ID to generate statistics about how you use the website 1 year

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies carry out essential tasks to help the service perform correctly. For example, we might save a cookie to let us know how many times you’ve seen a message we’ve shown on a page, or if you’ve dismissed it.

Name Purpose Expires
AnalyticsConsent Status of consent for Analytics tracking 1 year
DASSeenCookieMessage Stores if user has seen the cookie message 1 year
__RequestVerificationToken This enables the website to function properly Session
.AspNet.Cookies This enables the website to function properly Session
ai_session This monitors the performance of the website Session
ai_user This monitors the performance of the website Session
SFA.DAS.FindApprenticeship
Training.SearchLocation
Used to store the location you enter when you search for a course or provider 2 days
SFA.DAS.FindApprenticeship
Training.SearchProviders
Used to store any search filters for providers 2 days
SFA.DAS.FindApprenticeship
Training.Shortlist
Used to store your shortlist 30 days from last update
__zlcmid ZenDesk chat user identifier 1 year
_cfruid Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. 1 year

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