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Care Information Scotland (CIS) Privacy Policy

When you use this website, we’ll collect information about your browsing habits using cookies. This helps us to understand how you interact with the website and what information you’re interested in.

By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to for us to use cookies to collect this information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small amount of data placed on your computer or mobile phone by a website.

Cookies can be:

  • persistent – meaning they’re stored by your web browser and will remain valid until a set expiry date
  • session – meaning they’ll expire when your web browser is closed.

Our cookies don’t collect or store any information that personally identifies you.

First-party cookies: Statistics

We use the following first-party cookies to understand how visitors interact with this website:

Cookie name

Expiration time

Description

_ga

Persistent (2 years)

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site.

_gat

Persistent (1 day)

Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

_gid

Persistent (1 day)

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

_ga_J3XJQSTLGW

Pesistent (2 years)

This cookie is installed by Google Analytics.

First-party cookies: Functional

We use the following first-party cookies to make this website usable and enable basic functions like page navigation:

Cookie name

Expiration time

Description

ARRAffinity

Session

Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.

ARRAffinitySameSite

Session

Used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session.

TiPMix

Session

Determines which web server the users must be directed to.

x-ms-routing-name

Session

Routes production traffic by specifying the production slot.

The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

The information was last updated on: 28th September 2023

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