The NHS website includes content from Public Health England.
Public Health England appear to often run health awareness campaigns, as opposed to getting directly involved in treating concerns.
Because they share a domain with the NHS, they may both leak cookies to each other and risk origin security risks.
Maybe not great, but, what about other third parties? The advertising companies, social media and analytics…
We would like to reiterate that the data our website operator obtains does not track users in a manner that identifies them personally. PHE complies with the laws governing the use of cookies, as set out by the Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As stated in our previous correspondence; if users wish to restrict or block tracking information on our website, this option is available through the individual’s browser settings.
Should you remain dissatisfied with our data use policy, we would suggest you to pursue any outstanding issues through the regulatory body for information rights, The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Their Cookie Banner image/text misleads users and then their cookie policy demands users consent to a whole range of third parties and mentions tracking ids in various places.
These types of cookies measure how you use the website, like where you click, so it can be updated and improved based on your needs.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| .ASPXANONYMOUS | nhs.uk | Used to deliver anonymous user details when authorising applications on the website. | 69 days | HTTP Cookie |
| __cfduid | d3js.org | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| ARRAffinity | nhs.uk | Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | nhs.uk | Preserves the visitor’s session state across page requests. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| CookieConsent | nhs.uk | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| homepage.modules | nhs.uk | Pending | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| huSessID | healthunlocked.com | Pending | 10 years | HTTP Cookie |
| seen_banner | nhs.uk | Pending | 3 months | HTTP Cookie |
| SRCHD | bing.com | Pending | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| SRCHUID | bing.com | Pending | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| SRCHUSR | bing.com | Pending | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| WFE | nhs.uk | Cookie to ensure persistent connection to a webserver | Session | HTTP Cookie |
These types of cookies measure how you use the website, like where you click. We use this information to improve our services.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _EDGE_S | bing.com | Pending | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| _EDGE_V | bing.com | Pending | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| _SS | bing.com | Pending | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| MUID | bing.com | Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| MUIDB | bing.com | Pending | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| nhs_heartage | nhs.uk | Pending | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| OGPC | google.com | Used by Google to save user settings when the user views pages with embedded content from Google Maps. | 29 days | HTTP Cookie |
| performance | nhs.uk | Pending | Session | HTTP Cookie |
These types of cookies measure how you use the website, like where you click, so it can be updated and improved based on your needs.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| @@History/@@scroll# [x2] | nhs.uk optimizely.com |
Pending | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| _ga [x4] | gov.uk nhs.uk play.google.com service.nhs.uk |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years | HTTP Cookie |
| _gat [x2] | nhs.uk play.google.com |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| _gid [x4] | gov.uk nhs.uk play.google.com service.nhs.uk |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| ACOOKIE | statse.webtrendslive.com | Collects anonymous data on the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded with the purpose of generating reports for optimising the website content. | 29 months | HTTP Cookie |
| collect | google-analytics.com | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Session | Pixel Tracker |
| dcs222rfg0jh2hpdaqwc2gmki_9r4q/dcs.gif | statse.webtrendslive.com | Pending | Session | Pixel Tracker |
| dcss9yzisf9xjyg74mgbihg8p_8d2u/dcs.gif | statse.webtrendslive.com | Pending | Session | Pixel Tracker |
| optimizelyDomainTestCookie | nhs.uk | Pending | 179 days | HTTP Cookie |
| optimizelyEndUserId | nhs.uk | Used to measure how selected users react to targeted changes to the website’s content and functionality, in order to determine what variation is most efficacious in terms of converting users to customers. | 179 days | HTTP Cookie |
| tracking/tracker.gif | preview.antbits.com | Pending | Session | Pixel Tracker |
| WT_# | nhs.uk | Used for gathering anonymous technical information regarding the user’s browser, operating system, IP address and screen resolution as well as the user’s navigation on the website. | 2 years | HTTP Cookie |
We run health awareness campaigns with trusted partners. These cookies see how they perform across the internet and social media. Such as whether you clicked an advert to come to our site.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _dc_gtm_UA-# | service.nhs.uk | Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| _isp-form_session | nhs.uk | Pending | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| 1P_JAR | google.com | Pending | 29 days | HTTP Cookie |
| ads/ga-audiences | google.com | Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor’s online behaviour across websites. | Session | Pixel Tracker |
| CAM | nhs.uk | Pending | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| CRAFT_CSRF_TOKEN | findarace.com | Pending | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| CraftSessionId | findarace.com | Pending | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | 2 years | HTTP Cookie |
| NID | google.com | Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads. | 6 months | HTTP Cookie |
| optimizely_dataevent_queue | nhs.uk | Pending | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| optimizely_dataevents | nhs.uk | Pending | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| optimizely_datalayer_map | nhs.uk | Pending | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| optimizely_datalayer_states | nhs.uk | Pending | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| optimizely_datasession_state | nhs.uk | Pending | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| optimizely_datatracker_optimizely | nhs.uk | Pending | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| optimizely_datavariation_map | nhs.uk | Pending | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| optimizely_datavisitor_profile | nhs.uk | Pending | Persistent | HTML Local Storage |
| r/collect | doubleclick.net | Pending | Session | Pixel Tracker |
| r1/pixel/x45742r677448176 | gwallet.com | Pending | Session | Pixel Tracker |
| ra1_sgm | gwallet.com | Pending | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| ra1sgm# | gwallet.com | Pending | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| ra1_sid | gwallet.com | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| ra1_uid | gwallet.com | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| RA1balancer | gwallet.com | Registers anonymised user data, such as IP address, geographical location, visited websites, and what ads the user has clicked, with the purpose of optimising ad display based on the user’s movement on websites that use the same ad network. | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| v2/tracker | brightcove.com | Pending | Session | Pixel Tracker |
Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DYNSRV | webfusion.co.uk | Pending | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| JS-Detection | gov.uk | Pending | 34 days | HTTP Cookie |
| OTZ | play.google.com | Pending | 29 days | HTTP Cookie |
| seen_cookie_message | gov.uk | Pending | 27 days | HTTP Cookie \ |
| TLSversion | gov.uk | Pending | Session | HTTP Cookie |