Cookies

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. Cookies are used to remember your settings when you revisit a website and to identify how visitors navigate the site. Cookies provide valuable information to website owners to adapt and make changes to the site in order to improve the user experience.

Why we use cookies

In common with many websites we use a number of different types of cookies to help improve your experience of using our website, specifically by:

  • Remembering preferences you have previously indicated to us.
  • Ensuring we know when you are logged in and logging you out automatically after a period of time to protect you against misuse.
  • Understanding how many people have visited our website, the search terms they are using and the journeys they make in order to locate content.
  • To provide additional functionality, typically via third party tools, to enhance the website

We do not use the information captured for any other purpose.

How do I control what cookies are used?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the 'C' icon, or opening up the Cookies Panel.

You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then clicking ‘Save and close’, or you can choose to accept the recommended setting. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. Find out more about how to manage cookies on the Information Commissioner's Office website.

You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites by visiting this page on Google.

Cookies used on this website

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies
Cookie Name(s) Purpose
Cookie preference CookieControl This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on west-lindsey.gov.uk. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.
Session cookies SSESS*
*followed by a unique string of letters and numbers
This is a session cookie which identifies you as a unique user whilst a browsing our website(s). This cookie expires when you close your browser.

Analytical cookies

Analytical cookies
Cookie Name(s) Purpose
Universal Analytics (Google) _ga
_gid
_gat
_gat_UA-xxxxxxxx-x
(where each x is a number)
_ga_xxxxxxxxxx
(where each x is a letter or number)
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data
Monsido monsido We use the tools at monsido.com to help us find, identify and correct spelling errors and improve the quality and accessibility of this website to make it easier to find and use. This cookie collects information in an anonymous form.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies
Cookie Name(s) Purpose
Hide alert banners hide-alert-banner-token This cookie remembers when you have selected to hide certain alert banners
Translation cookie googtrans This cookie is used to remember your language preferences

Additional Third Party cookies

Youtube

On some parts of this site, we use YouTube to display videos. We endeavour to embed videos using YouTube's privacy enhanced mode, which only sets cookies once you play the video. YouTube will not store personally identifiable cookie information. Read more at YouTube's embedding videos information page. You can also read YouTube’s Privacy Policy.

Maybe* Retail loyalty Scheme (Local Rewards)

On the Shopping page is some embedded content provided by Maybe*. This content sets cookies and local storage in your browser using the app.localrewards.chat domain. This includes cookies and local storage from third party providers such as Facebook and Google. Please see the Local Rewards Terms and Conditions for more details.

Additional Third Party cookies
Cookie Name(s) Purpose
Youtube preferences cookie PREF This cookie is set by Youtube and is used to remember user preferences such as language settings. This cookie is set to expire in 2 years
Youtube Visitor info cookie VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE This cookie is set by Youtube when viewing a page with Youtube videos on it. It is set by Youtube so they can count the views of embedded Youtube videos on them. This cookie is set to expire in 9 months
Youtube privacy enhanced cookies VSC
remote_sid
Used by YouTube's privacy enhanced mode. These cookies expire when you close your browser.
Local Rewards Facebook pixel _fpb This cookie is used to distinguish and keep track of unique users. This cookie is set to expire after 3 months
Local Rewards Google Analytics _ga
_gid
_gat
_gat_UA-xxxxxxxx-x
(where each x is a number)
_ga_xxxxxxxxxx
(where each x is a letter or number)
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data
Local Rewards widget Session data mc_pixel_session_data This local storage functionality is used to store a unique session ID. The data stored in mc_pixel_session_data has no expiration time.
Local Rewards widget User ID mcwidget This local storage functionality is used to store a unique user ID. The data stored in mcwidget has no expiration time.

Advertising cookies

The West Lindsey District Council website does not have any advertisements, therefore there are no advertising cookies set by this website

Cookies used on other West Lindsey District Council websites

Each of these websites have separate cookie controls and mechanisms.

Cookies used on our 'Forms' website (west-lindsey-self.achieveservice.com)

Cookies used on Forms website
Cookie Name(s) Type Purpose
Session PHPSESSID Necessary This cookie is set and used by our 'Forms' package provider, Granicus, it is used to provide the forms functionality. This cookies expires either when you close your browser or in 6 hours.
Time localtime Necessary This cookie is used to calculate the local time. This cookies expires when you close your browser.
Language APP_LANG Necessary This cookie is used to set the language used to view the site. This cookie is set to expire after 24 hours.
Login timestamp _lastlogin Necessary This cookie contains a timestamp to determine the time you logged in. This cookies expires when you close your browser.
3rd party authentication SimpleSAMLSessionID Necessary This cookie is used to authenticate against 3rd party systems. This cookies expires when you close your browser.
Customisation customization Necessary This cookie is used to remember any user customisation. This cookies expires when you close your browser.
Cookie Message COOKIE_MESSAGE Performance and Functionality This cookie is used to remember cookie settings on this site. This cookie is set to expire after 6 months.

Cookies used on our 'Home Choices' website (homechoice.west-lindsey.gov.uk)

Cookies used on home choices website
Cookie Name(s) Type Purpose
Home Choices Cookies SSESS*
has_js
*followed by a unique string of letters and numbers
Necessary These are session cookies which identify you as a unique user whilst browsing this website. These cookies expire when you close your browser.
Accessibility Preferences mysheet Functional This cookie stores your text size, colour and style preferences for enhanced accessibility. This cookie is set to expire in 1 year.

Cookies used on our 'Democracy' website (democracy.west-lindsey.gov.uk)

Cookies used on democracy website
Cookie Name(s) Type Purpose
Session ASP.NET_SessionId Necessary This is a session cookie which identifies you as a unique user whilst browsing this website. This cookie expires when you close your browser.

Cookies used on our 'payment portal' (civicaepay.co.uk)

Cookies used on the payment portal
Cookie Name(s) Type Purpose
Civica Payments Portal Session cookies __RequestVerificationToken
ASP.NET_SessionId
BIGipServerPOOL_A5
BIGipServerCFS_HTTP
Necessary These cookies are set by our secure payment provider, Civica. These cookies expire when you close your browser.
Civica Payments Portal cookie preference CookieAccepted Necessary This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on the civica payment portal. This cookie is set to expire in 1 year.

 


Page last updated: 28 April 2023