When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through "Internet browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them" or visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to control cookies on a wide variety of browsers.
We use a variety of cookies on our websites and these are detailed below.
Website analytic providers such as Google Analytics set cookies to help accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage.
when user exits browser
1000 days after users last visit
For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code website.
Some sites such as Google maps and YouTube use cookies to help deliver better services, for example remembering where you were on a map.
6 months
When applying for a job or a contract with DFID you use a user name and password to update your details. We use cookies to remember who you are.
Cookies are set so that you don’t have to fill in your name and email address every time you want to comment on our blogs or consultations platforms and so you can see comments you made that are awaiting moderation.
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