Cookies

Our use of cookies

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, your computer tablet 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:

• 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 they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast.

You can manage these small files and learn more about them from the article, Internet Browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them .

Read this article if you want to learn how to remove cookies set on your device.

You may encounter two types of cookies when using this website: First-party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site. Third-party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies' internet tools, which we are using to enhance our site and are controlled by them.

Cookies may be either persistent cookies or session cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Third-party cookies

We use some suppliers who may also set cookies on their websites on its behalf. The Civil Service Pension Scheme website does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third party websites for more information about these.