Use of cookies on the Federation for Industry Sector Skills & Standards website

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order 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 and why.

Cookie	Name	Purpose	More information
Google Analytics	_utma _utmb _utmc _utmz	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.	Click here for an overview of privacy at Google
PHP Session Cookie	ci_session	PHP session ID This cookie is set when a session begins and will expire when the session ends. No personal data is obtained.

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We hold no actionable, personal information about you in cookies and never use or sell it commercially. If you still wish to disable cookies, you can do it in two ways:

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