Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer's hard disc for record keeping purposes. Cookies can make the web more useful by storing information about your preferences on particular sites, thus enabling website owners to provide more useful features for their users.
They contain no name or address information or any information that will enable anyone to contact you via telephone, e-mail or any other means.
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set your browser to disable cookies or inform you when they are set. However, given that we may sometimes use cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of our website if you do disable them.
Our website uses two kinds of cookies.
1. Session cookies, which are integral to the operation of the website, are stored in your computer's memory temporarily and get deleted when you terminate your current session on the website.
2. Persistent cookies, which are stored on your machine until they expire at their preconfigured expiry date, that are in use on our website are described below.
| Cookie Name | Description | More information | |
| These cookies are essential for the website to operate and are set upon your arrival to our web site. These cookies are deleted when you close your browser. | - | |
| clientvars | These cookies allow our site to remember selections and preferences that you've already made or information that you've already given. | - | |
| mode | These cookies allow our site to remember selections and preferences that you've already made or information that you've already given. | - | |
| __utma | These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | ||
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| BX | This cookie is used to display the Flickr photo galleries | Flickr privacy policy | |
| B | This cookie is used on the homepage to display the weather widget provided by Yahoo! | Yahoo! privacy policy |
Google cookies
This site uses Google/YouTube cookies to record information about which pages you have landed on and how you have navigated through the site. This data enables us to understand:
- Which pages people visit on the site
- Which devices and internet browsers are being used
- What is popular
Additionally, we use a Google Translate API cookie to store your translation preferences for a specific page should you choose to use the translation service available to you using Google Translate.
For more information visit Google Privacy Center: transparency and choice, YouTube's privacy policy.
Note: Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. This means Google will not associate your activity on websites using analytics with other information they may hold as part of your Google account or with searches you make on their search engine.
We embed some Twitter feeds into our pages. Twitter uses cookies to determine who follows the various links contained in these embedded feeds. For further information read the Twitter privacy policy.
Flickr
Some of our pages may contain images that have been embedded from the Council's Flickr page. For further information on Flickr privacy policy
Yahoo!
The weather widget is often embedded on some pages of the site are provided by Yahoo!
Some cookies maybe used by Yahoo! More information about cookies is available at Yahoo! privacy policy
Youtube
Youtube may use some cookies on videos that are embedded within our pages.