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 n-kesteven.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 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
Translation cookie googtrans This cookie is used to remember your language preferences
Slide In (pop up) slide-in_*
(where * is the 'name' of each different 'pop up' type)
This cookie determines if you have seen and interacted with 'pop ups' that we use on the site to highlight certain content that may be relevant to you. No personal information is stored in this cookie.
GovDelivery Overlay local storage UKNORTHKESTEVEN_subscribe_overlay This local storage setting determines if you have seen and interacted with the GovDelivery email subscription pop up box - GovDelivery is provided by Granicus

Additional Third Party cookies

Youtube

On some parts of this site, we use YouTube to display videos. We 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.

 

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.

Advertising cookies

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

Cookies used on other North Kesteven District Council websites

Each of these websites have separate cookie controls and mechanisms.

Cookies used on our 'Forms' website (n-kesteven-ss.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 'Democracy' website (democracy.n-kesteven.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

Page last updated: 4 May 2023