This page contains information on cookies and how we use them on our website.
What are cookies?
We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a small piece of text stored on your computer, phone or whatever you use to surf the Internet. Cookies have many uses, but fundamentally they are used to store information about you on your computer.
How we use cookies
We do not use cookies on this website for the collection of personal data; however temporary cookies are used by the website statistics package to log you into the system. If you have any queries about this please contact the council’s Website Administrator for help and advice. This policy applies to this website but not to sites to which we provide links.
What cookies do we use?
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is the program we use to collect statistics from our website to show us how visitors use our site. We use the information to create reports and to help us to constantly improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, information like the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and which pages they visited, but we don’t get personal information, and can’t track who you are.
Google Analytics creates four cookies:
- _utma (lasts for two years)
- _utmb (lasts for 30 minutes)
- _utmc (lasts until you close your browser)
- _utmz (lasts for six months)
There is more information available about Google Analytics cookies, and Google offer a Google ‘opt-out’ plugin if you don’t want their cookies to be used on your browser.
Deleting cookies
If you do not want to receive cookies from this website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options, then add our domain to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from. Under settings you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored. You can find more information on how to delete and control cookies at aboutcookies.org. If you set your browser to refuse cookies, please be aware that there may be functionality on various websites that does not work.
