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Privacy Statement & Cookies

The National Wildlife Crime Unit website does not store or capture personal information. Sections of this website may request personal information from you, for example, to leave feedback or report an issue or complaint. This information will not be shared with any other agencies and will remain confidential. The purpose for requesting this personal information will be clear on the page.

This website contains links to external website and resources over which we have no control. The National Wildlife Crime Unit is not responsible for the content or availability of these websites. We cannot guarantee that these websites will be available all of the time.

Use of ‘Cookies’

A ‘cookie’ is a small text file that is written to your computer by your web browser. The National Wildlife Crime Unit website uses ‘cookies’ to enhance the website user experience.

Cookies can be disabled in your browser in the options. For help and support in deleting and controlling cookies, you can visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/ or the BBC webwise pages.

Google Analytics

The National Wildlife Crime Unit uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. This tool uses ‘cookies’, small text files which are automatically downloaded on your computer to collect anonymous information. This tracks information such as how visitors get to our website, what pages are being viewed and what Internet Browser is being used.

If you would prefer to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, then please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Cookies used by our website

CookieTypeDurationDescription
__atuvcPersistent2 YearsAddThis: The __atuvc cookie is created and read by the AddThis social sharing site JavaScript on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis and removing it when disabling cookies would cause unexpected behaviour for users.
_gaPersistent2 YearsWe use Google Analytics to monitor traffic levels, search queries, visits to this website and to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it. These cookies help us to improve the way our website works (for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily).  
PHPSESSIDTemporaryon browser closeThis is a session cookie generated by PHP, the main technology we use to code and build this website. This cookie is used to enable the site to recognise you as you go from page to page. It is essential for our site to know what actions you have performed on previous pages so we do not ask you to enter the same information twice. This cookie expires when you close your browser.
vc_widget_generic-expertPersistent1 yearCookie created by vCita - part of Fast Secure Contact form admin page
viewed_cookie_policyPersistent1 yearThis cookie registers whether you have viewed and accepted the cookie information bar that appears at the bottom of the website. It is a persistent cookie that will last for one year, and means that the site will “remember” that you have clicked “OK” on the cookie information bar so that the bar does not appear again the next time you visit this site.
wordpress_logged_in_Temporaryon browser closeThis cookies is required by WordPress, a popular open-source Blog development system used by the National Wildlife Crime Unit. This cookie is set to remember that you are logged-in as you move from page to page.
wp-settings-time-1 , wp-settings-1Persistent1 yearThese cookies are required by WordPress, a popular open-source blog development system used by the National Wildlife Crime Unit. These cookie records the time that you log in and the number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface, if you have registered on the blog.