Cookies policy

This site uses cookies, small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience.

In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies site which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

The cookies we are using are:

Functional Cookies

Dismiss Privacy Notice

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This cookie is set to allow the site to detect if you have agreed to National Veterinary Data Service’s cookie notice and prevent you from being asked in the future.

This cookie will expire every 6 months.

You may delete this cookie manually (and restore the pop-up) by clicking below.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are required to maintain the security and integrity of our services.

Session Token

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Cookies starting `nvd-online.session_token` are set when you sign-in.

These cookies are used to authenticate your browser when you make submissions to register or update your microchip records.

These cookies are removed when you sign-out or automatically after 7 days.

CSRF

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To maintain the security and integrity of our services, we implement Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection across our platforms.
CSRF protection helps us prevent unauthorised actions on our site by ensuring that every form submission and state-changing request originates from our site.

By using our services, you acknowledge and consent to the security measures we have in place to protect your data and our systems from CSRF attacks. These measures include generating unique tokens for form submissions and validating them server-side to ensure authenticity.

Google reCAPTCHA

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To ensure the security and integrity of our services, we utilise Google's reCAPTCHA on our website.
reCAPTCHA helps us prevent automated abuse and protects our site from spam and malicious activities.

By using reCAPTCHA, you consent to the collection and processing of information as outlined in Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
The reCAPTCHA data collected will only be used for security purposes and not for any other commercial or advertising purposes.

Links to Google's relevant policies can be found below.

*microchip number or other identification mark