Cookies
Most websites that you visit will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to 'remember' you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server, and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website does not use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site – for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it will not recognise you and it will not be able to keep you logged in.
Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based for example on your location and/or browsing habits.
Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (‘first party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (‘third party cookies’). Find out more.
How we use cookies on this web site (our Cookie Policy)
Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) via its parent organisation Glasgow City Council only uses cookies to help analyse how users use the site. We do this with Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ('Google').
Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Our web hosting partner OLM does not store any cookie data, and this is only read each time you visit the site for the express purpose of setting the appearance of the site and/or managing your session on the site.
Neither Glasgow City HSCP/Glasgow City Council nor OLM will use cookies for the purpose of advertising or marketing messages based, for example, on your location and/or browsing habits.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
Further information
Scottish Information Commissioner's webpage on Cookies
Information Commissioner's Office
What to do if you don’t want cookies to be set
Some people find the idea of a website storing information on their computer or mobile device a bit intrusive, particularly when this information is stored and used by a third party without them knowing. Although this is generally quite harmless you may not, for example, want to see advertising that has been targeted to your interests. If you prefer, it is possible to block some or all cookies, or even to delete cookies that have already been set; but you need to be aware that you might lose some functions of that website. Find out more.