Cookies Policy
Cookies are files saved on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website.
We use cookies to store information about how you use this website, such as the pages you visit.
Cookie settings
We use 2 types of cookie. You can choose which cookies you’re happy for us to use.
Cookies that measure website use
We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs. We do not allow Google to use or share the data about how you use this site.
Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about:
- how you got to the site
- the pages you visit and how long you spend on each page
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by visiting this page on Google.
Strictly necessary cookies
These essential cookies do things like remember your progress through a form (for example a licence application).
They always need to be on.
We also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources:
- Personal information from third parties, such as broadband suppliers, for the purpose of operationally managing the voucher scheme. For instance, when suppliers give us information regarding beneficiaries who will be benefiting from funding.
Essential cookies
These cookies are required for the Gigabit Broadband Vouchers Scheme website to operate. We do not need to ask permission to use them.
Third Party Cookies
We have embedded videos within this site that use YouTube as a way of playing them .
This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page
Name | Purpose | Expires |
wordpress_sec_ | Functional | Session |
wordpress_logged_in_ | Functional | Session |
wordpress_test_cookie | Functional | Session |
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
Name | Purpose | Expires |
_ga | This helps us count how many people visit the website by tracking if you’ve visited before | 2 years |
_gid | This helps us count how many people visit the website by tracking if you’ve visited before | 3 days |