About cookies

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This page tells you about how the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom website (www.da.mod.uk) uses cookies. The cookies used on www.da.mod.uk are not used to identify you personally.

If you'd like to learn more about cookies in general, we recommend the About Cookies website.

Specific cookies we use

Required cookies

NamePurposeDuration
SQ_SYSTEM_SESSIONSystem cookie that remembers when a user is logged in to the website to prevent prompts to log back inRetained until user closes browser (session Cookie)
visitedThis cookie records only if the user has accepted the cookie policy and closed the cookie notification.One year
consentThis cookie records only if user accepted optional (performance and analytics) cookies. One year

Performance and analytics cookies

NamePurposeDuration
_ga,  _ga_XYZGoogle Analytics cookie to collect data on website traffic.1 year – More information (How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services – Privacy & Terms – Google)

Social media sites

We provide links to a range of social media sites including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. We also use social media integration features such as the Facebook Like and Share buttons. These social media sites use cookies to collect your IP address and identify which page you are visiting. They will also make your preference information available to third parties. The information collected by these cookies are controlled by third party privacy policies.

Changes to our cookie statement

Any changes we may make to our cookie statement in the future will be posted on this page.