LCGL Counselling and Training Services - Cookie Policy 

What are cookies? 

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use across our websites and why. 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is downloaded on to your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are used by many websites and can do a number of things, e.g. remembering your preferences, recording what you have put in your shopping basket, and counting the number of people looking at a website. 

The rules on cookies are covered by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR). PECR also covers the use of similar technologies for storing or accessing information, such as ‘Flash cookies’ and device fingerprinting.   

Cookie Name Purpose
Craft Session ID CraftSessionId These are Craft CMS cookies. The cookies are used to track a user's recent activity, last visit and general site movements. Like the Google Analytics cookies, these contain no personally identifiable information.
Universal Analytics (Google) _ga
_gat
_gid
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. This cookie does not store any user information; it's just used to limit the number of requests that have to be made to doubleclick.net _ga is used to distinguish users and has an expiration of 2-years. _gid is used to distinguish users and has an expiration of 24-hours Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data  

How do I change my cookie settings?

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.  

You can use your web browser to:

Please note, by changing your cookie settings through your browser, this is likely to affect your use and experience of our website in the areas described in the table above.

Where to find information about controlling cookies:

Useful information: