Last updated: 15/08/2025
About this notice
This cookie notice explains what cookies and other tracking technologies are, and why they are used.
It sets out specifically what cookies are used, the purposes for the cookies, and what rights you have over any personal data processed by cookies.
Who we are
The data controller responsible in accordance with the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and other data protection regulations is:
Medicare Systems Limited (‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’)
Medicare Systems Limited
Jade House, 87-89 Sterte Avenue West, Poole, Dorset, BH15 2AL
info@medicaresystems.co.uk
www.medicaresystems.co.uk
Data Protection Officer
The contact details for our Data Protection Officer are as follows:
By post: DataCo International UK Limited, Suite 1, 3rd Floor Suite 1, 11 – 12 St James’s Square, London, United Kingdom, SW1Y 4LB
By email: privacy@dataguard.co.uk
By phone: +442035146557
Our role
We are the controller of the personal data we process. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we collect, use and store information about you.
We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under number ICO:09910245971.
What are cookies?
If you are just browsing our website, we may collect your data using cookies or other tracking technologies.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device, such as your computer, phone, or tablet, when you view pages on our website. These cookies allow us to track some of your browsing preferences and optimise how the website works.
While we are not looking to identify you using cookies as the focus is on your device, it may be possible for us to identify you or infer information about you. Unless the cookies are “strictly necessary” to make our website function, we will always ask for your consent before they are placed on your device.
What types of cookies are there?
First Party Cookies
First party cookies hosted on the website you are visiting. They are only set or retrieved by the website while you are visiting it, so they cannot normally be used to track activity or pass data from one site to another. However, the owner of that website can still collect data through their cookies and use that to change how the website appears to the user, or the information it displays.
Third Party Cookies
Third party cookies are where the host domain or address is not the same as the website you are visiting. They are usually placed in a website via scripts or tags added into the web page. Sometimes these scripts will also bring additional functionality to the site, such as enabling content to be shared via social networks.
Online advertising is the most common use of third-party cookies. By adding their tags to a page, which may or may not display adverts, advertisers can track a user (or their device) across many of the websites they visit.
We might share your data collected via cookies with these third-party cookie providers. Where we do this, we have data processing agreements in place with all third-party providers to ensure that your personal data is handled securely and in accordance with data protection regulations. Where your data is transferred outside of the UK, we make sure that your data is given the same level of protection, either because that country has a comparable data protection standard (Adequacy), or by using another safeguard such as an enhanced contractual agreement.
How are cookies categorised?
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are set to provide the service, application or resource requested. Without these cookies, your request cannot be properly delivered. They are usually set to manage actions made by you, such as requesting website visual elements, pages resources or due user login/logoff. We can also use these cookies to set up essential functionalities to guarantee the security and efficiency of the service requested, like authentication and load balancer request. Consent is not needed to use this category of cookies.
Performance Cookies
These cookies are set to provide quantitative measures of website visitors. Information collected with these cookies is used in operations to measure website or software KPIs, such as performance. With the usage of these cookies, we can count visits and traffic sources to improve the performance of our site and application. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site. These cookies can only be used with your consent.
Functional Cookies
These cookies are set by us or by third party service providers we use to implement additional functionalities or to enhance features and website performance, however they are not directly related with the service you requested. Services and functionalities implemented by these cookies support features like automatic filled text box, live web chat platform, non-necessary forms, and optional security parameters like a single sign-on (SSO). These cookies can only be used with your consent.
Targeting/Analytical Cookies
These cookies are set by our advertising partners to provide behavioural advertising and re-marketing analytical data. They collect any type of browsing information necessary to create profiles and to understand user habits to develop an individual and specific advertising routine. The profile created regarding your browsing interest and behaviour is used to customise the ads you see when you access other websites. These cookies can only be used with your consent.
What cookies do we use?
Cookies
Marketing
- TAID
- AID
- google_adsense_settings
to provide ad delivery or retargeting.
Analytics
- __gads
- _ga_0RV4Q9BFMP
- _gcl_au
to store and track conversions.
- __utmd
to store and track visitor journeys through the site and classifies them into groups.
- _gac_UA
- _utm
to store and track visits across websites.
- _dc_gtm_UA
to store number of service requests.
- UTMD_
to store and count pageviews.
- gtag_logged_in
- _gat_gtag_UA_
- utm_campaign
to Provide parameters to URLs to identify the campaigns that refer traffic.
- utm_source
to Provide parameters to URLs to identify the campaigns that refer traffic.
- _opt_expid
Thrown when a redirect experiment is running. Stores the experiment ID, variation ID, and referral source to the redirected page.
- _opt_utmc
Retains the last query parameter utm_campaign.
- _opt_awkid
Used for campaigns linked to Google Ads Criteria IDs.
- _opt_awgid
Used for campaigns associated with Google Ads ad group IDs.
- _opt_awmid
Used for campaigns linked to Google Ads Campaign IDs.
- _opt_awcid
Used for campaigns that are linked to Google Ads customer IDs.
- _gac_
- _gac_gb_
- _ga_
- _gaexp
- __utmxx
Determines when the experiment in which the user participated expires.
- __utmx
Determines if the user took part in the experiment.
- __utmv
Stores data about a visitor level custom variable. Thrown when a developer uses the _setCustomVar method with a visitor-level custom variable. Also used by the _setVar method, which is no longer supported. Updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
- __utmz
Stores information about the source of traffic or campaign, allowing you to understand where the user came to the site from. Generated when the library is run and updated every time data is submitted to Google Analytics.
- __utmc
Not used in ga.js. Installed for interoperability with urchin.js. Previously worked in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether a user should start a new session or visit.
- __utmb
Used to define new sessions / visits. Thrown when the JavaScript library is executed if there are no existing __utmb cookies. Updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
- __utmt
Limits the frequency of requests.
- __utma
Allows you to distinguish between users and sessions. Thrown when the JavaScript library is executed, if there are no existing __utma cookies. Updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
- AMP_TOKEN
Contains a token that can be used to get the Client-ID from the AMP service. Other possible values: disabling the function, active request, or an error in obtaining the Client-ID from the AMP service.
- _gat
- _gid
Allows you to differentiate between users.
- _ga
Unassigned
- mcfw-bypass-cookie
- _clck
- _wpfuuid
- MicrosoftApplicationsTelemetryFirstLaunchTime
- MicrosoftApplicationsTelemetryDeviceId
- __utm.gif
Necessary
- mcfw-wp-user-cookie
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- wordpress_logged_in_44ea161d9dcd19073ad70621fa20bf82
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- wordpress_test_cookie
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- CS-Magic
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- pys_consent
Data for other UTM parameters
- pys_start_session
Session start flag
- pys_session_limit
Session limit duration
- last_pys_landing_page
Last visit landing page data
- last_pysTrafficSource
Last visit source URL data
- pys_landing_page
Landing page data
- pysTrafficSource
Source URL data
- pys_first_visit
First visit flag
- cs_user_preference
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- wp-settings-time-5
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- wp-settings-5
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- pys_advanced_form_data
Event advanced form data
- cs_stored_consent_for
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- cs_enabled_server_side
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- cs_enabled_advanced_matching
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- cs_enabled_cookie_term_34
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- cs_enabled_cookie_term_37
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- cs_enabled_cookie_term_33
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- cs_viewed_cookie_policy
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
- wordpress_sec_44ea161d9dcd19073ad70621fa20bf82
Default wordpress cookie. Always ON.
How can I manage my cookie settings?
Except for any strictly necessary cookies, you can opt-out of any cookies you already provided consent for by opening the cookie settings in the cookie banner.
Alternatively, you can manage your cookie settings at the browser level, by opening the browser settings menu and choosing which cookies to allow.
Is there automated decision making occurring?
No processing activities include making automated decisions about you that might significantly affect you or lead to any legal effect. Automated decisions mean decisions based on solely automated processing without human intervention.
Is the provision of personal data a requirement?
The placement of cookies on your device and the provision of personal data through them are not statutory or contractual requirements. This means that you are not legally obligated to allow cookies to be placed on your device, nor are you required to provide personal data collected through them.
The consequences of cookies not being placed on your device depend on the type of cookies:
| Category of cookies | Consequences |
| Strictly necessary cookies | Malfunctioning website features, security vulnerabilities, network problems, and accessibility issues, as well as payment functions not working properly. |
| Performance cookies | Limited understanding of how users interact with the website, which may result in a slower pace of website improvement, unresolved usability issues, and a less optimized or user-friendly browsing experience. |
| Functional cookies | Loss of enhanced user experience, such as remembering login details, preferred language, region settings, or form inputs; users may need to manually reconfigure settings or re-enter information on each visit. |
| Targeting cookies | Less relevant or generic advertisements may be displayed; users may see the same ads repeatedly or ads unrelated to their interests. Additionally, we may have reduced ability to measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns or reach intended audiences efficiently. |
Your rights
Under data protection legislation, in certain circumstances you have the following rights over the processing of your personal data as described in this notice:
- right to be informed about how your data is used;
- right of access to your personal data;
- right to correction or rectification of your data;
- right to request deletion of your data; and
- the right to data portability.
In most cases, we must respond to a request to exercise these rights within one month if not before. If you would like to submit a request, please contact us or our Data Protection Officer.
Complaints
If you are unhappy with any aspect of this privacy notice, or how your personal data is being processed, please contact us or our Data Protection Officer.
If you are still not happy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO):
By post: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
By phone: +44303 123 1113
Via ICO website: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
