What are cookies?
We put small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.
Cookies are used to:
- measure how you use the website, so that it can be updated and improved based on your needs
- remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again
Our cookies cannot read other data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. We do not use cookies for collecting personal user information.
Why do we have a cookies banner appearing on our website?
We have a banner at the top of the page when you come to our website.
This highlights that this website uses cookies.
We need to make you aware that cookies exist, to comply with the EU cookie law (e-Privacy Directive).
When you see the banner, you can:
- tick the box to accept the cookies and continue
- ignore the banner - it will either disappear after 30 seconds or after visiting 5 pages. This will automatically accept the cookies
- change your preferences to turn off cookies. This will have an impact on your experience using this website. If you choose to disable cookies, it will do this for every website you visit
What cookies do we set?
Two cookies are set on this website:
- TestCookie - to determine whether a user's browser accepts cookie and can therefore log in
- Session cookie - used to store the session id of a user. This is required to determine whether a user is logged in to the web site. Session data is also stored when a user is filling in a form however the data is stored on the server and not in the cookie.
Both of these cookies are required for your site to operate and do not contain personal data. These cookies are set to expire as soon as a user quits their browser.
The Central Bedfordshire OCSI mapping system has it's own cookies information which can viewed at http://www.communityinsight.org/privacy/
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use our website.
We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit
- how long you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We don’t collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address), so this information can’t be used to identify who you are.
Last updated Friday, 22nd April 2016