Use of Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By visiting our site you are accepting and consenting to our use of cookies.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive, and will not harm your computer.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies__: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies:__ These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies: __These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie	Purpose	Sessional or Persistent
_ga	Used by Google to distinguish users. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form	2 years
_utma	Used by Google to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form.	2 years from set/update;
_utmb	Used by Google to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form.	30 mins from set/update

Log Files
We do not use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer this website, track web user’s involvement or gather any other forms of demographic information

Sponsored Links
You may find sponsored links to other companies on our site with who are latest sponsors, supporter and or event partners LAS are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties; therefore we encourage you to read their privacy statements, as they may differ from ours.

External Links
LAS cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website therefore cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change any content of our privacy policy a notice will be placed on our homepage

Contact Details
To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact the HR Manager at: Leeds Autism Services, 28 Grape Street, Hunslet, Leeds, LS10 1BX or email [email protected]

You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.