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Cookies are also used to support specific areas of the site, but only with the user’s consent.</p> </div>   <div id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlMainBody_wrapperDiv" class="rte"> <p></p><div> <h2>Why Parliament uses cookies</h2> <p>We want to make our website easy to use, 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. </p> <p>They cannot be used to identify you personally, and do not collect information from your computer. </p> <p>These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example: </p> <ul> <li>Measuring how people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast </li> <li>Understanding what technology people are using to access the site – for example the browser they are using or whether they are accessing from a mobile phone</li> <li>Enabling a service to recognise your device so you have don’t have to give the same information several times during one task</li> <li>Recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t have to do it for every web page requested </li></ul> <h2>Our use of cookies</h2> <p>This list is correct as of June 2011, but it’s likely our use of cookies will change over time. We will endeavour to keep this list up to date when new cookies are added.  </p> <h3>Cookies for measuring performance of the website</h3> <p>By understanding how people use the Parliament website, we can make improvements to the navigation and content to make the site better and easier to access. </p> <p>We use Google Analytics to gather data on the number of people accessing our site, where they are accessing from, what pages they visit, and what technology they are using. 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This uses a cookie to record if a user completed the survey in the previous three-month period, so that users aren’t asked every month. </p> <p><strong>Name:</strong> UK Parliament website monthly survey <br/><strong>Value:</strong> N=Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:30:51 GMT <br/><strong>Expires:</strong> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:30:51 GMT   </p> <h3>Cookies to support specific elements of the site</h3> <p>Some elements of the site use cookies to make them easier to use. </p> <p>These are: </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120302164147/http://data.parliament.uk/assets/education/raceagainstchime/raceagainstchime.htm">Race Against Chime</a> </p> <p>This game – in the Education section of the site – uses cookies only if you have asked to connect the game to your Facebook account. 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