Privacy and cookies
Where services are delivered on the internet, 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.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task;
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested;
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast.
You can manage these small files
yourself
and learn more about them through "Internet browser cookies - what they are and how
to manage them 
."
Our use of cookies
The Intellectual Property Office website uses cookies to:
- remember your preference settings for some of our online services;
- improve our understanding of how people use our website, through web analytics;
- measure the effectiveness of online marketing campaigns.
The Intellectual Property Office will never share your information with other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes and does not pass on your personal information to any other website.
Further information on the way we use cookies will follow shortly.