Privacy statement
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This website is operated by the Gambling Commission (the
Commission) whose principal place of business is at Victoria
Square House, Victoria Square, Birmingham B2 4BP.
We respect the privacy of every individual who visits our
website. Our website does not automatically store or capture
personal information, but merely logs the user's
IP address which is automatically
recognised by the web server.
What are 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, computer 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:
- enabling a service to recognise your device 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 they can be
made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are
fast
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about
them through "Internet
browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them"
Our use of cookies
Usage analysis: We use Google Analytics to
create anonymous cookies and log the IP addresses of visitors. We
do not collect any personal information in the process.
We collect this data to assess which parts of the website
are the most popular and identify trends in usage, helping to guide
the development of new webpages: The cookies used for usage
analysis are:
Name: _utma
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years
Name:_utmb
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 30 minutes
Name: _utmc
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser
Name_utmz
Typical content: randomly generated number, plus information on how
the site was reached (for example, directly or via a link, organic
search)
Expires: 6 months
Online regulatory returns: Our online
regulatory returns system uses two cookies – one contains a session
ID and one contains an authentication key. These cookies are not
stored – they both expire when the visitor closes their browser.
The cookies used for online regulatory returns are:
Name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Typical content: randomly generated session ID
Expires: on browser close
Name: GCOR
Typical content: contains an authentication key
Expires: when user exits browser
Fees calculator: Our fees calculator uses
cookies to allow information to be remembered as users progress
from one page of the website to another. The cookie used for the
fees calculator is:
Name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Typical content: randomly generated session ID
Expires: on browser close
Variation calculator: Our variations calculator
uses cookies to allow information to be remembered as users
progress from one page of the website to another. The cookie used
for the variations calculator is:
Name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Typical content: randomly generated session ID
Expires: on browser close
Licensing authority returns: Our licensing
authority returns system uses cookies to allow information to be
remembered as users progress from one page of the website to
another. The cookies used for licensing authority returns is:
Name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Typical content: randomly generated session ID
Expires: on browser close
GovMetric: Whenever a user rates a page on our
website, a cookie is created or updated on their domain. The cookie
contains a set of values, one for each page rating the user has
made. These values are identification numbers which link back to
the GovMetric database giving details of the user’s rating
(including IP address, User agent, URL of the rated page and rating
details, potentially including any comments given during the rating
process).
The only use made of this cookie is to prevent re-rating of a
page multiple times during the same day. The cookies used for page
ratings is:
Name: govmetric_votes
Typical content: to identify when a user has already rated a
webpage
Expires: 24 hours after creation
Consent to store
cookies: We inform users, the first time that they visit
our website, that we store cookies on their device.
Name: cookieOK
Typical content: to identify when a user has implied consent to the
website storing cookies
Expires: 1 year after visiting
By using our website and online
service you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your
device.
How we use information visitors provide us with
We do not use cookies for collecting user information. Except as
otherwise stated, we may use information visitors provide via this
website to communicate information to them (if they have requested
it) and for internal marketing and research purposes. We do not
disclose any information visitors provide via the website to any
third parties or other government departments except where:
- a) such disclosures are necessary to fulfill our service
obligations to them, in which case we will require such third
parties to agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy
Policy
- b) required by applicable laws, court orders or government
regulations (for example to prevent or detect crime)
- c) they give us permission to do so.
We take reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or
alteration of data that visitors give us.
If you would like us to correct or update any information, or if
you would like information deleted from our records, then please
contact us on info@gamblingcommission.gov.uk,
or write to:
Website Manager
Gambling Commission
Victoria Square House
Victoria Square
Birmingham
B2 4BP
This privacy statement only covers the Gambling Commission
website at www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk. This statement does
not cover links within this site to other websites.
Page last reviewed: July 2012