We use cookies to give you the best experience of our website and to help us improve the site.
What are cookies?
Cookies are files saved on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website. They store information about how you use our website, such as the pages you visit.
The main reason we use cookies is to:
- Make our website work, for example keeping it secure
- Measure how you use our website and how well it’s performing
You can find a full list of the cookies we use and what we use them for below.
Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
To confirm rejection of optional cookies, click Save Settings.
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how our website is used, for example the number of visitors to parts of the site and if you get any error messages. This helps us to improve our site and its content, for example, making sure you can find what you're looking for easily.
| Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
| WT_FPC |
These cookies are set by the WebTrends analytics service and are used to collect information about how you use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify you, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. |
2 years (Persistent Cookie) |
| _GA |
These cookies are used to track information about traffic to the website and how users use the website. The information gathered via these cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the website. We may also use these cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the website to see how our users react to them.. |
2 years (Persistent Cookie) |
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential to provide you with services available throughout the website and to enable you to use some of its features, so we don't give you the option to turn them off. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.
These cookies are essential to making our site work, they help keep our site secure and enable you to move around our website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas.
You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but this may affect how the website functions.
| Name |
Purpose |
Expires |
| __cfduid |
This security cookie is used by Cloudflare, who provide the platform that our website is built on, to distinguish between legitimate users and 'bots'. It collects IP addresses of website visitors but then securely anonymises them so that we can't use them to identify
or track you |
1 month |
| Civica.W2WebParts. |
| W2Session.Identifier |
These cookies allow you to log in as a member and remember that you have logged in so that you have access to your account |
When you close your browser down at the end of your visit |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
| .ASPXAUTH |
| accepted |
These cookies are used to record your preferences in relation to cookies (WTLOPTOUT is a WebTrends cookie which is placed if you opt out of performance cookies) |
100 days |
| CookiePreferences |
| WTLOPTOUT |
| BIGipServer~DMZ~ppfmembers_https_pool |
These cookies are used for load balancing to make sure your page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session |
When you close your browser down at the end of your visit |
| BIGipServer~DMZ~fasmembers_https_pool |
| civicapensions#lang |
This cookie ensures your choice of language is recorded so that you can read the website in the language of your choice |
When you close your browser down at the end of your visit |
| _GRECAPTCHA |
This cookie is placed for reCAPTCHA which is used to protect our site against spam and abuse of web forms |
180 days |
Set your cookie preferences
We use both necessary and optional cookies. You can turn the optional cookies on or off.
Necessary
These types of cookies are necessary in order to make our website work, to enable you to move around and use its features, such as accessing secure area.
Performance
These optional cookies collect information about how you use our website so we can continually improve it. Performance cookies don’t collect information that identifies you as an individual so you remain anonymous.
Functional Cookies
These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use this website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website.
Google Analytics
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page.