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Cookies

The 'Visit someone in prison' service puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.

Cookies are used to:

• measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
• remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again

These cookies aren’t used to identify you personally.

You’ll normally see a message on the site before we store a cookie on your computer.

Find out more about how to manage cookies.

How cookies are used on the service

Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use the service. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.

Do you agree to the Ministry of Justice and other UK government departments using Google Analytics to help improve the ‘Visit someone in prison’ service?

Google Analytics stores information about:

• the pages you visit – how long you spend on each page
• how you got to the site
• what you click on while you’re visiting the site

We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.

Google Analytics sets the following cookies:

Name	Purpose	Expires
_ga	Determines the number of unique visitors to the site	2 years

You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies.

Our introductory message

You may see a pop-up welcome message when you first visit the service. We’ll store a cookie so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and knows not to show it again.

Name	Purpose	Expires
seen_cookie_message	Saves a message to let us know that you have seen our cookie message	1 month
accepted_cookies	Stores cookie consent	1 year

Session

When you use the service, we’ll set a cookie to remember your progress through the forms. These cookies don’t store your personal data and are deleted once you’ve completed the transaction.

Name	Purpose	Expires
pvbs	Store prisoner, visitor and visit details	20 minutes

Third-party cookies

We use MOJ Forms to collect feedback comments. We do this to help make sure the service is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements. See the MOJ Forms cookies page for more information.