Privacy policy statement

We (the Financial Services Authority - FSA) receive personal information through this website. You may, for example, be asked for personal information if you want to take advantage of specific services that we offer, such as ordering online or subscribing to our publications.

Where you provide personal information, we will only use it to deliver the services you have requested.

This privacy policy only covers the FSA's website.

The FSA site does not automatically capture or store personal information, other than logging your IP address and session information such as how long your visit lasted and the type of browser used. This is recognised by the web server and is only used for system administration and to provide statistics, which we use to evaluate how the site is used.

This policy does not cover links within this site to other websites.

Cookies

Cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use our site, which is then used to help improve the site. The information collected includes the number of site visitors, where visitors come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to help analyse how visitors use fsa.gov.uk.

Cookie name	What is it
_utma	Typical content: randomly generated number Expires: 2 years
_utmb	Typical content: randomly generated number Expires: 30 minutes
_utmz	Typical content: randomly generated number and information about how the page was reached (eg directly or via a link, organic search or paid search) Expires: 6 months

For further details on Google Analytics cookies, including those not used by fsa.gov.uk, visit cookies set by Google Analytics.

Content Management System cookies

Used by the software (Vignette) which displays our website content to remember selections or preferences you’ve already made.

Cookie name	What is it
VignettePortal-NavTreeState-fsa	Typical content: randomly generated number Expires: when user exits browser
JSESSIONID	Typical content: randomly generated number Expires: when user exits browser

  

YouTube cookies

We use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode to embed videos from our official YouTube channel. This mode may set cookies once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos. You can find out more on YouTube’s embedding videos information page.

General

You can choose to refuse cookies or tell your browser to let you know each time that a website tries to set a cookie. However, refusing cookies may mean some sections of the site will not work properly.

For more information about cookies (including how to turn them off) please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.