Cookies - Royal Navy

Cookies - The Discover my Benefits Site

OUR USE OF COOKIES

To improve your experience and make this website simpler to use, we sometimes place small amounts of information on your computer, mobile phone or device. These include small files known as cookies.

The cookies used on this website improve your experience by:

• Measuring how you use our website - so we can make improvements that meet your needs

Our cookies contain anonymous information such as a unique identifier but this information is not used to identify you personally.

The cookies used on this website can be grouped into the following categories:

1.       Performance cookies – collect information about how you use our website and help us improve performance and provide a better user experience

Cookies are stored on your computer for different lengths of time depending on what they are used for. Session cookies are temporary cookies and are only stored until you leave the website or when you close your web browser. Persistent cookies last for a fixed period of time, defined within the cookie, and allow the website to recognise the device and track repeat visits.

We do not sell the information collected by cookies.

Further information about individual cookies used on this website is provided below.

HOW CAN I CONTROL COOKIES?

If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can change your browser settings to reject new cookies or delete those that have already been set.

If you continue to browse the website without changing your cookie settings, we will assume you are happy to accept all types of cookie on the website.

You cannot change the settings for performance cookies because these are required to provide a good browsing experience and allow us to collect basic statistics on website usage.

Do Not Track (DNT) is a feature offered by some browsers but is not currently supported by this website. When enabled, it sends a request to the website not to track your browsing, but a universal standard to determine how DNT requests are to be interpreted has not yet been adopted by software providers and website owners.

To learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org.

WHAT COOKIES ARE USED ON THE Discover my Benefits WEBSITE? PERFORMANCE COOKIES

These cookies cookies collect information about how you use our website and help us improve performance and provide a better user experience. Cookies of this type collect information about the pages you visit, which videos you watch and if you experience any errors. These cookies don't collect any information that could be used to identify you – all the information collected is anonymous and is only used to help us improve how our website works and understand what interests our users. We often use independent web analytics companies to measure and report on the performance of our website. As a result, some performance cookies may be set by a third-party.

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