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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 computer, mobile phone or tablet. These are known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

What cookies are

Cookies are used to improve services for you by:

enabling a service to recognise your computer so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
measuring how many people are using services so that popular services can be made easier and faster to use
analysing anonymous data to help us understand how people interact with government services so we can make them better

What cookies look like

If you click on a cookie you'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the website server that gave you the cookie.

How we use cookies

nidirect uses a variety of cookies. The page below provides more details about why we use them and how long they will last.

How we use cookies

How to manage your 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 nidirect, or any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. Your browser is the way you access the internet, for example Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Safari. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how you can restrict or block cookies.

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Be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the way our website works for you.

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The social networking sites that nidirect links to are third party sites and nidirect does not have any control over the way that these sites use your data. You should read their respective privacy policies carefully to find out what happens to any data that is collected when you use these services and to consider whether you want to opt out.

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