Sponsors
National Historic Ships UK acknowledges the financial support of its sponsors
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer, tablet or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through "Internet browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them"
We set a session cookie that allows us to maintain the state of your visit whilst viewing our web site. This may include a user preference or current progress in a series of steps.
Name |
Typical content |
Expiry |
PHPSESSID |
randomly generated alphanumeric identifier |
when user exits browser |
Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to
the website and volumes of usage. This to ensure that the service is available when
you want it and fast.
Name |
Typical content |
Expiry |
_utma |
randomly generated number |
2 years |
_utmb |
randomly generated number |
30 minutes |
_utmc |
randomly generated number |
when user exits browser |
_utmz |
randomly generated number + info on how the site was reached (e.g. |
6 month |
For further details on the cookies set by Google Analytics, please refer to the Google website
We set a cookie that remembers your progress when registering your vessel on our web site so that you can resume the registration process on subsequent visits.
Name |
Typical content |
Expiry |
ships_progress |
calculated alphanumeric hash |
1 year |
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National Historic Ships UK acknowledges the financial support of its sponsors