Postwatch is now part of Consumer Focus

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. 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 during one task
• recognising that you have already given a username and password so you don't need to enter it for every web page requested
• measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and that there is enough capacity to ensure they are fast

You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them from AllAboutCookies.org.

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Our use of cookies

The list below shows all of the cookies that are set by Consumer Focus and the third-party services we use on this website. If you have any queries about these cookies or would like more information about them, please get in touch.

Cookies for improving service

Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This is to ensure that the website is available when you want it and to help us understand what you want to use.

Name	Typical Content	Expires
_utma	randomly generated number	2 years
_utmb	randomly generated number	30 minutes
_utmc	randomly generated number	when you close your browser
_utmz	randomly generated number and information on how the site was reached (e.g. direct or via a link, organic search or paid search)	6 months

For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google Code website