We're probably exempt from the May 2012 EU Privacy and Communications Directive, however for your information this application DOES use cookies. These are used for the sole purpose of identifying your user session between requests.

An example cookie used by this site:

Name	CGISESSID
Value	f0bde6b99babec037175636ba3ce6238
Host	nww.hmds.leedsth.nhs.uk
Path	/
Secure	No
Expires	Wed, 23 May 2012 12:12:43 GMT

In this example, CGISESSID is the name of the cookie, the unique session ID is f0bde6b99babec037175636ba3ce6238 (generated by a randomisation algorithm at first login), it is valid for the web address nww.hmds.leedsth.nhs.uk only, and automatically expires at the time specified. The 'secure' setting refers to whether the cookie data is transmitted in encrypted format (unnecessary for this purpose). No other information is transmitted between client browser and the HILIS application server in this cookie.