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Cookies on Immigration health surcharge
The Immigration health surcharge service puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site. Find out more about the cookies we use, what they’re for and when they expire.
Cookies that measure website use
We use Google Analytics cookies to measure how you use the Immigration health surcharge service.
These cookies collect information about:
- how you got to these sites
- the pages you visit and how long you spend on each page
- what you click on while you're visiting these sites.
We do not allow Google to use or share the data about how you use these sites.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | These help us count how many people visit the Immigration health surcharge service and other government digital services by tracking if you’ve visited before | 1 year |
| _gid | These help us count how many people visit the Immigration health surcharge service and other government digital services by tracking if you’ve visited before | 24 hours |
Cookies that remember your settings
These cookies do things like remember your preferences and the choices you make. They contain no personal information and are not stored outside the browser.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| set_cookie_prefs | Remembers whether you have chosen a preference for Analytics cookies, and therefore do not need to see the banner | 1 year |
| analytics_optin | Remembers whether you have accepted Analytics cookies | 90 days |
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential to the service because they do things like remember your progress through a form and keep you logged in.
They always need to be on.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| IKmtHqPESN | Keeps you logged in | When you log off |
| idsrv | Makes sure the log in process is secure | When you log off |
| ukvisa_sessionId | Remembers your progress through the IHS forms | When you log off |
| UKVisa_AntiForgery | Protects against Cross-Site Request Forgery | When you log off |
| SignInMessage | Verifies that you have logged in properly | When you log off |
| AWSALBCORS, AWSALB | Helps stop our site crashing by spreading traffic across web servers | 1 week |
| nlbi_, incap_ses_ | Helps keep our site secure by spreading traffic across web servers | When you log off |
| visid_incap_ | Helps keep our site secure by spreading traffic across web servers | 1 year |
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