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The cookies listed in this policy and cookie preferences set on this service apply to DVLA’s ‘Tell DVLA about a medical condition that could affect your driving’ and ‘Renew your short-term medical driving licence’.
Essential cookies
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Name | Purpose | Expires |
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PLAY_SESSION | Helps identify and remember your progress through a transaction or service. | Session |
PLAY_LANG | Used to set your language preference. | Session |
TSxxxxxxxx | You may see one or more of these. These cookies are essential for security measures. | Session |
Cookies_policy | Saves your cookie consent settings. | 1 year |
Cookies_preferences_set | Lets us know that you’ve saved your cookie consent settings. | 1 year |
__Secure-identity_external_ui_session | Helps identify and remember your progress through a transaction or service. | 20 minutes |
DVLAAuthCookie | Helps identify you through a transaction or service. | 20 minutes |
Analytics cookies (optional)
With your permission, we use Google Analytics to collect data about how you use this service. This information helps us to improve our service.
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Name | Purpose | Expires |
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_gid | These help us count how many people visit the service by tracking if you’ve visited before. | 24 hours |
_gat | These help to regulate requests. | 1 minute |
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