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Footer

Overview

The footer provides links to supplementary information about your service and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It also includes links to required legal information, such as:

  • cookies
  • copyright
  • licensing
  • accessibility

Links to include 

  • Essential service links – Contact us, accessibility statement, privacy policy, terms and conditions, cookies settings
  • Organisational information
  • Legal and compliance - FOI requests, copyright, transparency notices.
  • Relevant services – If applicable.
  • Help and support 
Important information:

Ensure that 'Help' links are placed consistently within the footer content and that they function in the same way on every page. This is to comply with WCAG 2.2 success criterion 3.2.6 Consistent help (opens in a new tab) . 

Links to Avoid 

  • Primary navigation links
  • Too many links
  • Outdated or unnecessary links
  • Promotional/advertising links
  • Duplicate links  

When to use this component

Use the ONS footer or an appropriate variant at the bottom of every page of your ONS service.

Variants

Full

Use columns to group lists of secondary navigation. Give each column a clear label to help users navigate efficiently. 
Order the links so that the most important links appear at the top left of the links section. 

Transactional

Use this within a transaction funnel, such as a questionnaire. This variant shows a reduced set of links.

To prevent the user leaving a transaction, all footer links can be set to open in a new tab. To avoid repeating the new tab icon when setting "target": '_blank' for each link, you can set the newTabWarning before the links.

Welsh

To display the organisation logo and Open Government Licence (OGL) content in Welsh, set "lang": 'cy'

Alternative organisation

Use this when a service is being provided by one of our partner organisations.

Use the poweredBy property to set an image path or inline svg for the organisation’s logo.

With the Royal Coat of Arms

To display the Royal Coat of Arms in the footer, set "crest": true

This variant should only be used for official ONS Surveys and should not be used in promotional or marketing use. 

Important information:

Services using the ONS Address Index API must display Copyright information, this is set using copyrightDeclaration.

Use the additional logo option when a service is provided by one of our partner organisations. Place both logos left aligned with the ONS logo appearing first as the primary organisation. 

If ONS is providing a service to someone else, the primary organisation should be on the left, with the ONS logo aligned to the right. 

Use this along with a ghost button in the header to “exit” the session if you need to show sensitive information after the user has completed a transaction, such as the user’s address or a response ID.

The warning link and header button should clear any sensitive data stored in the session and send the user to a page outside the transaction.

Default

Use this option when only the ONS logo is required.

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