Cookies
Cookies are files saved on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website. We use cookies to collect and store information about how you use the Buckinghamshire.gov.uk website.
We use 3 types of cookie:
- Analytics cookies
- Marketing cookies
- Essential cookies
You can choose which cookies you're happy for us to use.
Analytics cookies
We use analytics cookies to help us understand how visitors interact with our websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. We use statistics cookies to analyse anonymised usage patterns.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga |
These help us track how many people visit buckinghamshire.gov.uk by tracking if you've visited before |
2 years |
| _gid |
These help us track how many people visit buckinghamshire.gov.uk by tracking if you've visited before |
24 hours |
|
_ga_6YT9KBTEKT _ga_V27C6R86F5 |
These cookies helps us track website visitors across different sessions |
2 years |
| AWSELB |
These help to improve how quickly your browser connects with the website |
When you close your browser |
| nmstat | This Siteimprove cookie is used to help record the visitor’s use of the website. The cookie contains no personal information and is used only for web analytics. | 999 days |
| _C4AP (SIPersist) | Used to identify if the visitor is new or returning, includes historic activities such as when/if a chat has started, hotspot hit or conversion occurred | Persistent |
Marketing cookies
We do not use marketing cookies on our main website but do use them on our fostering and recruitment sites.
These are used for building anonymous audiences from users who show an interest in a digital campaign, and for retargeting them with further, tailored messages relating to that campaign, or similar future campaigns.
Marketing cookies on fostering.buckinghamshire.gov.uk
CAN Digital Solutions Limited (CAN) use pixel tracking to deliver targeted advertising on fostering.buckinghamshire.gov.uk.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| NID | Used by CAN to deliver targeted advertising across the Google Display Network | 540 days |
| ANID | Used by CAN to deliver targeted advertising across the Google Display Network | 540 days |
| IDE | Used by CAN to deliver targeted advertising across the Google Display Network | 540 days |
| id | Used by CAN to deliver targeted advertising across the Google Display Network | 540 days |
| _fbbp | Used by CAN to deliver targeted advertising across Facebook and Instagram | 180 days |
| MUID | Used by CAN to deliver targeted advertising across the Microsoft advertising network | 12 months |
| _qca | Used by CAN to deliver targeted advertising across the Quantcast network | 13 months |
| sa-user-id | Used by CAN to deliver targeted advertising across the StackAdapt network | 12 months |
Pixel tracking on jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk
To attract the widest number of applications we sometimes promote vacancies on third party recruitment sites. We do not use cookies for this but do use conversion pixels on our application pages to enable these sites to track when an application has been completed successfully.
Essential cookies
These are required cookies that this website cannot function without. These cookies do things like protect your data when you submit a form. They always need to be on.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| CSRF Token | Protecting form submissions from cross site request forgery | 1 year |
| client-cookie | Saves your cookie consent settings | 1 year |
| _C4AS (SISession) | Used to hold information about the Click4Assistance tools and proactive rules | Session |
| ASP.Net_SessionId |
The chat window runs on a Microsoft asp.NET platform, this cookie is strictly necessary to allow asp.NET to maintain anonymized user session by the server |
Session |
| JSESSIONID |
A platform cookie which is used to maintain your session when using the Pay360 payment system |
When you close your browser |
Cookies set for online forms (ItouchVision)
We use ItouchVision for some electronic forms on our website including contact us and waste services. By using these forms, anonymous information can be collected on your session.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| ORA_WWV_APP_ | This cookie is used to store current application ID | - |
| LOGIN_USERNAME_COOKIE | This cookie is used to store current username | - |
|
244057E19D296667E053 2801A8C0D5103F3 |
This cookie is used to store current session ID | - |
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10AF4D783F0B15A3E0533390 3AD45EDD10AF4D783F0C15A 3E05333903AD45E103DD |
This cookie is used to store remember me token | - |
| ORA_WWV_APP_105 | This cookie is used to store current application ID | Session |
Third party cookies
Some Buckinghamshire.gov.uk pages may contain content from other sites, like YouTube, which may set their own cookies. These sites are sometimes called ‘third party’ services.
This tells us how many people are seeing the content and whether it’s useful.
In addition, if you share a link to a Buckinghamshire.gov.uk page, the service you share it on (for example, Facebook) may set a cookie. We have no control over cookies set on other websites - you can turn them off, but not through us.
Other services
We link to services that are on other websites, for example to pay your Council Tax online or report a road defect. These services may set additional cookies and, if so, will have their own cookie policy.
Managing services
You can prevent the downloading of cookies on your device, block their use or receive notification that cookies are being downloaded by changing the settings on your web browser. However, please be aware that blocking or restricting the use of cookies may prevent you from benefiting from some of our website’s features.
To find out more or control and delete cookies as you wish, visit allaboutcookies.org.
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Further guidance on the use of personal information, and on cookies and similar technologies, can be found at the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).