Privacy and Cookies Policy
The Air Quality England website takes your privacy seriously. We want to provide you with explicit information on how we collect, gather, and identify information during your visit to our site. This information may be expanded or be updated as we change or develop the website. For this reason, we recommend that you review this policy from time-to-time to see if anything has changed.
If you have any queries regarding the Air Quality England website's privacy policy, please contact aqinfo@ricardo.com.
Cookies policy
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Introduction
In order to help provide the information on this website accessible and easy to use, small amounts of information may be placed on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
The information is used to improve the website and is collected by measuring how many people are using services so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast.
If you'd like to learn how to remove cookies set on your device, visit the About Cookies website.
Cookies used on this website
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
This website uses Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it's meeting its users' needs and to understand how we could do it better.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:
| Name | Typical Content | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _utma | randomly generated number | 2 years |
| _utmb | randomly generated number | 30 minutes |
| _utmc | randomly generated number | when you close your browser |
| _utmz | randomly generated number and information on how the site was reached (e.g. direct or via a link, organic search or paid search) | 6 months |
Other cookies used on Air Quality England
AddThis cookies are used for social media sharing. The following cookies may be used:
| Name | Typical Content | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| di | randomly generated number | 2 years |
| dt | randomly generated number | 30 days |
| loc | country code and randomly generated letters and numbers | 30 days |
| psc | number | 2 years |
| ssh | your favourite preferences | 2 years |
| uid | randomly generated letters and numbers | 2 years |
| sshs | Used for optimizing sharing settings for the user | 2 years |
| uit | randomly generated letters and numbers | 2 years |
| uvc | randomly generated number | 2 years |
| __utavc | randomly generated number | 2 years |
How to control and delete cookies
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The 'Help' function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.