Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. 

Cookies allow the website to recognise your device (your computer or mobile phone) if you return and can make using the website faster and easier.

Cookies are used minimally on this website for site usage analytics. You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but some parts of the site may not work as expected.

In order to help us to improve the content, format and structure of this website we record and analyse how visitors use the website. For this purpose, we use Google Analytics.

Google Analytics is an analytics product that West London NHS Trust uses to do things such as keep track of the number of visitors to the site and the length of their stay. When you visit our website, Google Analytics will deposit the cookies on your computer to enable us to obtain this information.

The metrics obtained through the use of first-party Google Analytics cookies do not include any information that would allow WLT to identify visitors individually to the website; the data is anonymous. The anonymised data that is collected is stored on Google’s servers.

The Google Analytics data sharing policy offers WLT the option to share analytics data either ‘Anonymously with Google and others’ or with ‘Google products only’.

UK government websites that use Google Analytics have been advised not to select either of these options. WLT has chosen not to share the analytics data in either of these ways.

Full details on the cookies set by Google Analytics are published on the Google website. Google also publishes a browser add-on to allow you to choose that that information about your website visit is not sent to Google Analytics.

We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source.

If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this and we will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

To find out how to allow, block, delete and manage the cookies on all standard web browsers, please visit About Cookies and select the browser and version you are using. You’ll also find information about how to delete cookies from your computer. 

Find out more about the Google Analytics opt-out Browser add-on

Below is a list of cookies used on our site

Cookie Name    Purpose   More information
Google Analytics _utma
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_utmz		 These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

See an overview of privacy at Google

See information on downloading a browser add-on to opt-out of Google Analytics
concrete5 CONCRETE5 This cookie is used by the website's CMS (Content Management System) to track if the user is a public guest or is logged in to an account on the website. This cookie is not used for any other purpose.  
Cookie notice cookieconsent_status Keep track of whether or not you have clicked "Got it!" on the notice about cookies on this website, so that it doesn't keep appearing when you load a page.  
Google Translate googtrans Keep track of which language has been selected from the Google Translate tool.  
Colour contrast contrast-mode Keep track of which colour contrast mode has been selected from the Accessibility Tools.  
Accessibility bar accessibility-controls Keep track of whether the accessibility bar is opened or closed.  
Text size saveFontSize Keep track of the text size that has been set from the Accessibility Tools.