Privacy and Cookies
Privacy
The Learning Records Service website, with the exception of registration for the newsletter, does not capture or store personal information.
This website merely logs the user's IP address (the Internet address of your computer) to give us an idea of which part of our website you visit and how long you spend there. In common with many others, this website may use a standard technology called a 'cookie' to collect information about how you use the site. This is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.
Some parts of this website use cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our website information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information. If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use our website.
If you register to receive newsletter your information will be held on a secure server and the data will not be shared with any organisations outside government. It will be used only to provide you with email updates on the topics you have requested or postal information if you request that method. If you respond online to a consultation exercise your data will only be used to facilitate the analysis of responses and will be deleted subsequently.
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 (external link).
Use of cookies by the Learning Records Service
Below is further information on the cookie name, how the cookie information is used and the length of time a cookie is active.
Cookie
| Name
| Purpose
| More information
|
| ASP.NET application | ASP.NET_SessionId
Value: avhyzk55ixclqp45nbop0ann
| This cookie contains the user's session ID.
| Expires at end of session. |
| WebTrends | WT_FPC
Value: id=2ae25001a90e1a12853
1308647262878:lv=1308659408
781:ss=1308656045699
| WT_FPC is the first-party cookie issued on the Learning Records Service site by WebTrends JavaScript, which enables us to gather anonymous statistical information on our how the site is browsed. | Expires at end of session. |
Copyright
© Copyright The Chief Executive of Skills Funding - you should assume that all material presented on the Learning Records Service’s website is owned by the Chief Executive of Skills Funding (referred to below as “the Skills Funding Agency”), unless otherwise stated. Visitors are permitted to reproduce this material free of charge in any format or media without specific permission, provided that the material is reproduced accurately and is not used in a derogatory manner or a misleading context.
Where Skills Funding Agency copyright material is published or issued to others, the source and copyright status must be acknowledged. The permission granted by the Skills Funding Agency to reproduce copyright protected material does not extend to any material on this site that is identified as being the copyright of a third party and authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.
If you wish to use the Learning Records Service’s logo within your web pages, please email Communications to request permission. You will also need to provide details of your web address, a return email address, and a brief description of how the logo will be used within your site. You will then be issued with a pdf and or .eps file together with the style sheet for usage in line with our corporate style. Logos must never be taken as a screen grab from our site, and must never be part-masked in usage.
