Cookie policy

This page outlines the cookie policy for the UK Research and Innovation (‘UKRI, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’) website. Your use of this website is subject to our terms of use.

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. This sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

Cookies are used to improve services for you, for example by:

  • enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information during one task
  • recognising that you have already given a username and password so you don’t need to enter it for every web page requested
  • measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and that there is enough capacity to ensure they are fast.

You can learn about cookies and how to manage them yourself on the All About Cookies website.

Cookies used on our website

Cookie Control
Purpose: to hold setting on whether to allow cookies to be stored or not
Expires: 10 days

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics. It installs cookies to help us identify errors and accurately estimate visitor numbers. These cookies do not collect personal data about visitors to our website.

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Purpose: used to distinguish users
Expires: two years

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Purpose: used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites
Expires: one minute

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Purpose: used to distinguish users
Expires: 24 hours

For further information on cookies used by this website please contact us.

Email: digital.services@ukri.org