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The PDF table below summarises the cookies on our website and their purpose.

Cookies on the CIPD site

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Our website also uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help our Websites analyse how users use the sites. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our Websites (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

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Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our Websites, compiling reports on Website activity for Website operators and providing other services relating to Website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

By using our Websites, you consent to the processing of data about you by CIPD, its subsidiaries and Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

CIPD Cookie Policy
May 2012