This website’s use of cookies

Introduction

This website is run by the Legal Services Board (LSB). 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 do not have to give the same information several times during one task
  • recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you do not 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 is enough capacity to ensure they are fast
  • analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with our services so we can make them better

You can manage these small files and learn more about them from Directgov: Internet Browser cookies – what they are and how to manage them.

For further information on how to remove cookies, visit About Cookies: how to control cookies.

Cookies for managing your current visit

These are cookies set by the LSB website (known as ‘first party’ cookies). They are used to remember the selections or preferences that you have made when looking at the information on this site.

LSBcookie-alert

  • Purpose: When you first arrive at this site you see a grey banner alerting you to our use of cookies. This cookie remembers when you have clicked the link saying “don’t show this message again”.
  • Benefit: To remember the selections or preferences you’ve already made when looking at information or using a service.
  • Data stored by cookie: An instruction to hide the banner.
  • Duration of cookie: Expires after 24 months.

LSBcookie-fontscale

  • Purpose: If you use the increase/decrease font size link of any LSB web page (‘a A’), this cookie remembers that selection as you move around the site.
  • Benefit: To remember the selections or preferences you have already made when looking at information or using a service.
  • Data stored by cookie: A number between 0 (smallest) and 3 (largest) indicating the font size to use on the site.
  • Duration of cookie: Expires when you close your browser.

LSBcookie-terms

Purpose: This cookie remembers a selection as you move around the site.

  • Benefit: To remember the selections or preferences you have already made when looking at information or using a service.
  • Data stored by cookie: No personal information about you. A cookie to remember previous visits.
  • Duration of cookie: Expires after 24 months.

Cookies for managing your current visit

These are cookies set by the LSB website (known as ‘first party’ cookies). They are used to remember the selections or preferences that you have made when looking at the information on this site.

LSBcookie-alert

  • Purpose: When you first arrive at this site you see a grey banner alerting you to our use of cookies. This cookie remembers when you have clicked the link saying “don’t show this message again”.
  • Benefit: To remember the selections or preferences you’ve already made when looking at information or using a service.
  • Data stored by cookie: An instruction to hide the banner.
  • Duration of cookie: Expires after 24 months.

LSBcookie-fontscale

  • Purpose: If you use the increase/decrease font size link of any LSB web page (‘a A’), this cookie remembers that selection as you move around the site.
  • Benefit: To remember the selections or preferences you have already made when looking at information or using a service.
  • Data stored by cookie: A number between 0 (smallest) and 3 (largest) indicating the font size to use on the site.
  • Duration of cookie: Expires when you close your browser.

LSBcookie-terms

Purpose: This cookie remembers a selection as you move around the site.

  • Benefit: To remember the selections or preferences you have already made when looking at information or using a service.
  • Data stored by cookie: No personal information about you. A cookie to remember previous visits.
  • Duration of cookie: Expires after 24 months.

How to control and delete cookies

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.

Alternatively, you may wish to visit the About Cookies website, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may have an impact upon the functionality of our website.

If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You’ll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

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