How cookies are used on this service
Ask DfE Online may put small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.
Cookies are used to:
- measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
- remember any notifications you've seen so that we don't show them to you again
The cookies aren't used to identify you personally.
Measuring website usage
We use Azure Application Insights software to collect information about how you use this website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.
Azure Application Insights stores information about:
- the pages you visit on this website
- how long you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you're visiting the site
We don't collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so this information can't be used to identify who you are.
We don't allow Microsoft to use or share our analytics data.
Azure Application Insights sets the following cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| ai_session | This helps us track activity happening over a single browser session | 1 hour |
| ai_user | This helps us to identify the number of distinct users accessing the site over time by tracking if you've visited before | 1 year |
Essential cookies
Ask DfE Online
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| AspNetCore.Cookies | One of the ways that we manage access to the service Several cookies may be generated with a number suffix (e.g. AspNetCore.Cookies1) |
When you close your browser |