Cookies
Cookies Policy
This page explains how we use cookies and similar technologies on the National Debt Service website.
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1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites you visit. They’re widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, and to provide information to site owners.
2. How we use cookies
We keep cookie use on this site to a minimum. We do not use cookies for advertising or marketing.
We currently use cookies only for essential website functions, or where technically required by our service providers. For analytics, we use cookieless tracking.
3. Essential cookies
At the moment, we do not use any cookies that are strictly necessary for the core operation of the site.
4. Analytics and performance cookies
We use analytics to understand how the site is used and to improve its performance.
4.1 Cloudflare Analytics
Cloudflare Analytics helps us understand traffic patterns and performance. It does not use tracking cookies and does not collect personal data about individual visitors.
4.2 Umami Analytics
Umami is a privacy-focused, cookieless analytics tool. It helps us understand which pages are used and how users navigate the site, all while maintaining the anonymity of individual users. We use a pseudonymous identifier to track sessions but do not store or read any cookies for this purpose. We do not use Umami Analytics data for:
- advertising or remarketing
- building profiles of individual users
- tracking your activity across other websites
5. Managing cookies in your browser
You can control cookies using your browser settings. You can:
- block all cookies
- block cookies from specific sites
- delete cookies that have already been set
Blocking or deleting cookies should not stop this site from working, but it may affect some analytics information we see.
6. Changes to this Cookies Policy
We will update this page if we start using new types of cookies or remove existing ones. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated.
7. Questions about cookies
If you have questions about how we use cookies, you can contact us using the contact form.