Cookies policy

Cookie Policy 

A cookie is a small file sent by web servers which is placed on your computer or device. This enables the web server to identify and track individual web browsers. When visiting our website, we collect standard internet log information and details of visitors’ behaviour patterns to help us improve your experience of our website. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.  

Use of cookies 

When you visit our website, we will ask for your consent to use cookies. We only use session cookies which are designed to enhance your user experience and to enable us to record your visit. Data gathered from your visit is not used for any other purpose.  

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales uses Google Analytics cookies to monitor our website performance and how visitors may be using it. These cookies provide us with statistics and other information to identify areas that may need maintenance on our website and to discover where visitors may have come from to view our website. Google Analytics cookies do not collect any personal information - all information collected is anonymous. When you visit our website, we will place the following four cookies on your computer: 

• _utma: This cookie helps to identify new or returning visitors and how long it has been since they last visited the website. We use this information to identify what content was useful for visitors. It is a persistent cookie, which means it doesn’t expire and stays on your computer unless you choose to delete it. 
• _utmb & _utmc: These cookies work together to calculate the time spent on our website. The information helps us understand what pages visitor are visiting and how much time they spend on each page. Both of these cookies are called session cookies which means they expire at the end of your session. 

• _utmz: When visiting our website from search engine results this cookie will store this information. It provides information on the search term typed in and which website visitors were on before visiting our website. This cookie updates information with each website you visit and has an expiration date set for six months.

Changing Cookie Settings 

If you would prefer to disable cookies from being used on this site, you can do this by amending your browser information. To do this, follow the steps on one of the guides below depending on your website browser. 

Firefox How to change your cookie settings in Firefox 

Internet Explorer How to change your cookie settings in Internet Explorer 

Google Chrome How to change your cookie settings in Google Chrome 

Safari (OS X) 

How to change your cookie settings in Safari (OS X)