Find out how and when we use your personal data, and the list of cookies used on the Panels website.
This Privacy policy covers the following sites:
- Consumer Panel
- Cost Benefit Analysis Panel
- Listing Authority Advisory Panel
- FCA Practitioner Panel
- FCA Markets Practitioner Panel
- FCA Smaller Business Practitioner Panel
Certain features of these sites result in us receiving personal information. You may, for example, be asked for personal information if you want to take advantage of specific services that we offer, such as contacting us using a contact form.
Where you provide personal information, we will only use it to deliver the services you have requested.
The sites do 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.
Necessary cookies
| Cookie | Category | Purpose | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| fca-cookie-agreed | Drupal - content management cookies | Ensures the consent banner is not displayed again for a set period after a user has clicked on it. | We use Drupal cookies to display and remember content based on selections you have already made. | 90 days. |
| has_js | Drupal-content management cookies | Typical content: Boolean. | We use Drupal cookies to display and remember content based on selections you have already made | When user closes the page |
| JSESSIONID | New Relic cookies | Used to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application | You can find out more about New Relic Browser’s security measures on the New Relic Browser website[1] (link is external) | Deleted when the browser closes. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Used for Google reCAPTCHA, to protect against spam submissions on webforms. | For further details on reCAPTCHA[2], visit Google. | 180 days. |
Non-essential cookies
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 the sites.
| Cookie | Category | Purpose | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | This cookie enables us to distinguish users and estimate our audience size and usage pattern. | For further details on Google Analytics cookies[3], including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit Google. | 2 years. |
| _ga_96RTHK6LSG | Google Analytics GA4 | This cookie enables us to distinguish users and estimate our audience size and usage pattern. | For further details on Google Analytics cookies,[4] including those not used by fca.org.uk, visit Google. | 2 years. |
| nmstat | Siteimprove analytics | This cookie enables us to distinguish users and is used to collect statistics about site usage, such as when the visitor last visited the site. | For further details on Siteimprove cookies, visit Siteimprove privacy[5]. | 1000 days. |
For further details on Google Analytics cookies, including those not used by the sites listed above, visit cookies set by Google Analytics[6].
General
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
For more information about cookies (including how to turn them off), visit www.allaboutcookies.org[7].