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Cookies on our website

A web cookie is a small file which contains information stored on your computer by a website you visit. It acts as an identification card, and often stores your settings for the website you are on, which can be used for authentication, or preferences such as text size. Cookies can store a wide range of information, including personally identifiable information such as your user name or email address. Some cookies (third party or sometimes referred to as tracking cookies) will use the information from your cookies as you visit multiple websites, for example Google or Facebook advertising cookies. There are also cookies that are classed as session (expire when you leave the website) or persistent (expire at a set date - eg two years).

Our cookie controller is set to only allow 'necessary cookies' by default, no complicated choices for you, we understand that most users will keep the default setting.

You will have to explicitly opt-in, if you want to allow 'additional cookies'. This includes, analytics, advertising and remarketing and allowing read and write to Third party cookies.

Necessary Cookies

'Necessary cookies' allow this website to work properly. For example, storing your cookie controller preferences so it does not display on every page your visit. You may disable all cookies by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how this website functions. These cookies do not collect any personal information, and they are not used to identify or track individual visitors across websites.

We are trialling (Feb-April 2022) 'google consent mode (beta)' with storage=denied and ads tracking=denied set as the default from our cookie controller when not opting into 'additional cookies'. A first party (cambridgeshire.gov.uk) cookie is installed to remember these setting on our website and respects your cookie controller settings. 

Additional cookies

These only apply if you explicitly choose to 'Opt-in to additional cookies' within our cookie controller. Additional cookies are denied by default. These cookies can help us to understand more about you and how you use our website, for example track paid for advertising, so that we can improve our content and services and provide relevant re-marketing to you. Allowing additional cookies will also enable 'third party cookies'. Below is an example of some of the additional cookies you could expect to see. 

Cookie name Expires Information
_gat_gtag 1 minute Google Tag Manager - Used to collect information about how you use our website. The information includes number of visitors, pages visited and time spent on the website. The information is collected is aggregated and anonymous
_ga 2 years Google Analytics 4 - This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. 

_gid

24 hours Google Universal Analytics- Used to collect information about how you use our website. The information includes number of visitors, pages visited and time spent on the website. The information is collected is aggregated and anonymous
_utma 2 years Google Universal Analytics - Randomly generated number
_utmb 30 minutes Google Universal Analytics- Randomly generated number
_utmc When the user exits the browser Google Universal Analytics- Randomly generated number
_utmz 6 months Google Universal Analytics- Randomly generated number, plus information on how the site was reached (for example, directly, via a link or through organic search)
AWSELBCORS Session Amazon web service 'Load balancer'
nmstat 2 years This cookie name is associated with the website analytics service provided by SiteImprove. It enables site owners to gather usage statistics about their websites.
_fbt 3 months Facebook - store and track activity on webpages and across websites for marketing and ad campaigns
*.global.siteimproveanalytics.io
+ AWSELB cookie
Session 3rd party cookie - The AWSELB cookie ensures that all page views for the same visit (user session) are sent to the same endpoint. This enables us to determine the sequence of a user's page views needed for features like Behaviour Tracking and Funnels.
ol-ishare.services.astuntechnology  Session 3rd party cookie relating to our mapping software

Your privacy

Cookies can store a wide range of information, including personally identifiable information such as your user name or email address. For that reason, the European Union has issued an ePrivacy Directive (2002/58/EC), which regulates the use of cookies and storing personally identifiable information.

Our use of cookies doesn't give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can also check which cookies we use on our branded applications, and find out how we use them.