Cookie Policy
This website puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.
Cookies are used to:
- measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
- remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again (for example the ‘we use cookies’ banner)
These cookies aren’t used to identify you personally.
You’ll normally see a message on the site before we store a cookie on your computer. You can hide this message for 30 days, after which you will need to hide it again.
Find out more about how to manage cookies.
How this website uses cookies
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use the Google Analytics service to collect information about how you use this website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit on this website
- how long you spend on each page in this website
- how you came to this site (e.g. from a search engine or the main BAS website)
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site (e.g. do you use the main navigation or in-line links)
- no personal information is collected or sent to this service (such as your name or email address)
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
ga |
This helps us count how many people visit this website by tracking if you’ve visited before | 2 years |
gat |
Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | 10 minutes |
_utma |
Like _ga, this lets us know if you’ve visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new or returning to a certain page |
2 years |
_utmb |
This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on this website |
30 minutes |
_utmc |
This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser |
When you close your browser |
_utmz |
This tells us how you reached this website (e.g. from another website or a search engine) | 6 months |
Our cookie banner
If you close the banner highlighting that this website uses cookies a cookie will be left on your computer to keep this banner closed for the next 30 days.
Our cookie banner sets the following cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
seen_cookie_message |
Saves the fact you’ve chosen to hide our cookie banner | 30 days |
Last updated: June 1st 2016