Cookie Policy

Use of cookies

'Cookies' are pieces of information stored by your web browser to the hard drive of your computer. North East Ambulance Service may use cookies to track usage of the North East Ambulance Service site and use this information to improve the site. Additionally North East Ambulance Service may use cookies in any secure client area which is password protected to allow for quick login and recognition on return.

North East Ambulance Service may use cookies in the following ways:

• Essential cookies to ensure that you get the information or service you asked for.  Essential cookies are needed for logging error messages and help us fix bugs, as well as allowing you to make online purchases.
• Personalisation cookies in any secure client area which is password protected to allow for quick login and recognition on return.
• Analytics and measurement cookies to help us see what is working on our site and what might need improvement.  We use Google Analytics to help with this. These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data
• Targeting and advertising cookies on occasion we use Google Adwords to help us promote our brand and courses. Google Adwords collects your browsing habits and aims to make sure you receive relevant advertising. As an advertiser we pay Google to place our adverts appropriately using the information they have processed, stored and created profiles with. The information we receive is anonymised, we do not store or process it, and we view it through a Google portal.

Read the Types of cookies used by Google

If you click on a third party link and leave our website for theirs please do take the time you read their policy, it will not be the same as ours and we have no control over it.
If you would prefer not to receive cookies, you may alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. For assistance with this please click the orange button with a ‘c’ written on it, found on the website in the bottom right-hand corner . If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our site will not function as effectively when viewed by you. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive or pass on computer viruses. A cookie does not hold any information about which sites you visited before this one.

You can read more about our cookies on our main NEAS website: www.neas.nhs.uk/cookies.aspx