These are cookies set by Private Care Solutions Ltd trading as Carer Support (www.carersupport.co.uk). Each of these are known as 'first-party' cookies.
__atuvc 

• Purpose: To allow us to record how many visitors are sharing our web content across social media channels.
• Benefit: To understand what visitors want to use and not to use, so we can improve the service you receive and archive what is not used
• Data stored: Unique identifier, no personal information (data is only used in aggregate)
• Duration: 730 days

Fontsize

• Purpose: To allow the user to increase/decrease the font size of web content via the icons at the top of the website, the cookie remembers the selection.
• Benefit: To remember your selections or preferences that you've already made when looking at information or using a service
• Data stored: A selection between small/med/large/verylarge to indicate the font of size to use on the website.
• Duration: Expires when user exits browser

ASP.NET_SessionId, Clientvars, Mode, CFID, CFTOKEN

• Purpose: These cookies are a 'session identifier', which allows the site to recognise your movement around the site as being from one computer.
• Benefit: To remember the selections or preferences you've already made when looking at information or using a service.
• Data stored: Information about the session; the cookie itself contains no personal information.
• Duration:
  • ASP.NET_SessionId: expires when you close the browser
  • Clientvars: 2 days
  • Mode: 99 days
  • CFID and CFTOKEN: 30 years.

Measuring website usage using Google Analytics cookies.

We use Google Analytics to find out how people interact with our site. This helps us understand your requirements and allows us to improve our services.
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you have visited, how you arrived there and how long you spend on the site. We do not collect or store any personal information used to identify who you are such as your name or address. Also, we do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Cookies used by Google Analytics: __utma, __utmb, __utmc and __utmz

• Purpose: To record how many people are using our website and how they move around the site once they have arrived:
  • _utma tracks how many times (if any) you have visited the Private Care Solutions website before
  • _utmb and _utmc are connected, and track how long you stay on the site
  • _utmz tracks identifies where you've come from e.g. from a search engine or from another website.
• Benefit: So service is available when you want it and fast, we measure numbers and volumes of visitors.
• Data stored: No personal information about you, just information about your computer and your browser.
• Duration:
  • _utma: Expires 2 years after your last visit to this site
  • _utmb: Expires 30 minutes after your visit, or after 30 minutes of inactivity
  • _utmc: Expires when you close your browser
  • _utmz: Expires 6 months after it was last set.

For more information about Google Analytics cookies go to Google Privacy Policy.
Cookies set by other websites

​We want to encourage better sharing and more engaging content by making the most of social sharing on our site. We use social sharing buttons, allowing you to share our web content via email, print, Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. They also allow you to subscribe to our own social media channels on Twitter, Linkedin and YouTube.
We use a number of suppliers who may also set cookies on their websites' on its behalf, which are known as 'third-party' cookies. These cookies are placed to ensure that all of them work effectively allowing better sharing of our website.


'How to control and delete cookie

​'We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The 'Help' function within your browser should tell you how.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.

​To opt-out of third-parties collecting any data regarding your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information below.