Cookie Policy
We use cookies to help our website work, to ensure that we give you the best digital experience on our website and to learn about how our website is being used. This Cookies Policy explains: what cookies are, the cookies we use, how we use them and the information we collect from them.
For further information on how we collect, use, share and protect your personal information please see our Privacy Policy.
Our use of cookies
Cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages or features you find useful and which you do not.
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer or other device, when a website is loaded on your browser. A cookie is widely used to "remember" you and your preferences. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. Cookies cannot access any information on your computer and most web browsers automatically accept cookies. To learn more about cookies visit allaboutcookies.org (External website).
Information collected and our purpose for using cookies
We may use cookies to record anonymous, non-personal information about your visits to this website in order to measure engagement interest.
We may also collect non-personal information about your visit to our website, based on your browsing (click stream) activities. This information includes pages browsed, projects viewed, tools used and other analytical data. We use these details to improve how our website functions and to understand how users interact with them.
We make use of different third party applications and services to enhance the experience of website visitors. These include social media platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter (through the use of sharing buttons), or embedded content from YouTube and Vimeo. As a result, cookies may be set by these third parties, and used by them to track your online activity. We have no direct control over the information that is collected by these cookies.
We use the following cookies
Some of these cookies are 'strictly necessary' to provide the basic functions of the website and can not be turned off, while others if present, have the option of being turned off. Click here to view or modify these settings
We use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for enabling the core functionality of the site. The website cannot function properly without these cookies
Analytical Cookies
Analytical cookies help us to analyse user behaviour, mainly to see if the users are able to find and act on things that they are looking for. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it.
We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs. Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about:
- how you got to the site
- the pages you visit on www.use.yourvoice.wales and how long you spend on each page
- what you click on while you're visiting the site
Targeting Cookies
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
Cookie | Domain | Description | Duration |
current language | www.useyourvoice.wales | This cookie is created by the content management system and is essential for the site to display to correct language version of the site. | session |
_ehq_uid | www.useyourvoice.wales | HQ allow us to count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
_ehq_last_visit | www.useyourvoice.wales | Engagement HQ allows us to recognise the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
_ehq_session_id | www.useyourvoice.wales | Engagement HQ helps us to analyse user behaviour, mainly to see if the users are able to find and act on things that they are looking for. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it | 30 minutes |
_engagementhq_v3 | www.useyourvoice.wales | These cookies are necessary for enabling the core functionality of the site. The website cannot function properly without these cookies | 2 days |
ugid | .unsplash.com | Unsplash sets this cookie to enable the video content on the website. | 1 year |
_ga | .useyourvoice.wales | Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors. | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
_gid | .useyourvoice.wales | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store information on how visitors use a website while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the collected data includes the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | 1 day |
_gat_gtag_UA_* | .useyourvoice.wales | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store a unique user ID. | 1 minute |
_ga_* | .useyourvoice.wales | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
ugid | .unsplash.com | Unsplash sets this cookie to enable the video content on the website. | 1 year |
YSC | .youtube.com | Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. | session |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | .youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. | 5 months 27 days |
CONSENT | .youtube.com | YouTube sets this cookie via embedded YouTube videos and registers anonymous statistical data. | 2 years |
_fbp | Used to identify users across webpages where Facebook pixel is installed. The pixel automatically saves a unique identifier to an _fbp cookie for the website domain if one does not already exist. | 3 months | |
_fbc | Used to identify the link users initially clicked across webpages where Facebook pixel is installed. The link ad on Facebook sometimes includes a fbclid query parameter. When the user lands the pixel automatically saves the fbclid query parameter to an _fbc cookie for that website domain. | 3 months |
Contact Us
If you want more information about our Cookies Policy, or have any comments or observations about it or about the way that we handle your Personal Information please contact the Commission's secretariat:
Secretariat to the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales
Welsh Government
Cathays Park
CARDIFF
CF10 3NQ
ConstitutionalCommission@gov.wales