This page contains information on the Council's use of cookies on its websites and details on how you can stop your browser downloading them or delete them.
Nottingham City Council Cookie Policy
This cookie policy provides information on cookies the council uses on its websites, what they are for and how you as an individual users can control or block them using your browser. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
This Cookie Policy covers the following websites
- www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk
- geoserver.nottinghamcity.gov.uk
- nottinghamcitychildcare.proceduresonline.com
- www.opendatanottingham.org.uk
In the following referred to as Nottingham City Councils "websites".
What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a small file of numbers and letters downloaded on to a device (e.g. computer, laptop, smartphone) when a user accesses some websites, including those of the Council. Cookies allow us to recognise devices and help us remember information regarding your preferences (e.g. if you have created a personalised homepage, or if you have logged into a site). This helps users of our websites, as it means their preferences can be saved each time they visit, without the need to re-enter them. Most major websites use cookies.
How Can I See or Control Cookies
You may delete and block all cookies from our sites, but parts of these sites may not work properly.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, and how to manage, stop your browser downloading them or delete them, visit:
Your browser's HELP function should also tell you how to do this, or your mobile phone manual.
Please be aware that restricting cookies on our websites may impact on some functionality
Cookies are used on this Website
- Session Cookies. These are temporary cookies, which only exist in the period you access the website. Session cookies help the councils websites remember what you did on the previous page, of if you have logged in, thus avoiding having to re-enter information. On our websites, these cookies do not contain personal information, and cannot be used to identify you
- Persistent Cookies. These are cookies, which remain on your device after you have visited our website. These cookies help us identify you as a unique visitor (by storing a randomly generated number) and help us remember preferences when returning to our websites, again meaning users don't have to re-enter information
Some cookies used on our website are provided by 3rd party services and applications, such as Google Adsense. More details are provided in the table below
The length of time a cookie will remain on your device will depend on the type of cookie. On our website, these cookies do not contain personal information.
The table below identifies the cookies we use on our websites, their name and description.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics can be found on all websites listed.
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our websites. 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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Cookie |
Description |
Expires |
|---|---|---|
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utmz |
stores where a visitor came from (search engine, search keyword, link) |
6 months |
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utma |
stores each user's amount of visits, and the time of the first visit, the previous visit, and the current visit (presumably partly for double-checking of this information). |
2 years |
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utmb and utmc |
are used to check approximately how long you stay on a site: when a visit starts, and approximately ends |
End of Session / 30 mins |
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More Info |
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.html |
Google Maps
Google Maps can be found on all website listed above
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Cookies |
Description |
Expires |
|---|---|---|
|
NID, |
These are used by Google to track how many people are using their Maps, which appear on every branch page. |
These cookies expire within 30 days to 2 years |
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More Info |
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ASP session cookies
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Cookies |
Description |
Expires |
|---|---|---|
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ASP.NET_ |
This cookie identities you as a unique user whilst you are browsing our site. No personal information is stored. It also helps us remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse pages without having to log in again |
End of Session |
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clientvars |
This cookie identities you as a unique user whilst you are browsing our site. No personal information is stored. It also helps remember what widgets you have added to your personalised pages and what position they are in, so when you return you have the same information displayed as you choose on your previous visit. |
End of Session |
|
mode |
Used to maintain session information for users who choose to view the site in different contrast modes. |
End of Session |
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aspsessionid |
This cookie identities you as a unique user whilst you are browsing our site. No personal information is stored. It also helps us remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse pages without having to log in again |
End of Session |
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More Info |
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/iis/6.0-sdk/ms525506(v=vs.90) |
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Flash Cookies
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Cookies |
Description |
Expires |
|---|---|---|
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CFID, CFTOKEN |
To use client and session variables, ColdFusion must be able to identify the client. It normally does so by setting the following two cookie values on the client's system: |
End of Session |
www.nottinghaminsight.org.uk
Nottingham Insight also uses Google Analytics - see above
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Cookie |
Description |
Expires |
|---|---|---|
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ASP.NET_SessionId |
This cookie identities you as a unique user whilst you are browsing our site. No personal information is stored. It also helps us remember you have logged into the site, so you can browse pages without having to log in again |
End of session |
|
.ASPXFORMAUTH |
The cookie that contains the authentication ticket when logged in to the site. |
End of session |
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.ASPXROLES |
If you are logged in to the site, you will be a member of a particular role which allows us to control what information you have access to. This cookie stores the details of that role. Most users will be in a Public role |
End of session |
|
ias.locale |
Records the user language choice for the website |
End of session |
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ias.PreferredItemCount |
Records the user choice of number of results to show in a list |
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myTreeSavedStateCookie |
Used to record the state of the folder tree between page refreshes. Only used for logged-in user with privileges to the Upload tool |
End of session |
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Div1SavedStateCookie |
Used to record the state of the Place Keyword tree structure between page refreshes. Only used on the Upload tool |
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Div3SavedStateCookie |
Used to record the state of the Owner organisation tree structure between page refreshes. Only used on the Upload tool |
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f5reminder |
Records that the user has previously seen the message displayed in the top left hand corner of the site. This message is presented to inform the user when the site has been updated or to present the option to undertake a survey |
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More Info |
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConceptsCookies.html |
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Social Media
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Cookie |
Reason |
More Information |
|---|---|---|
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We have a number of presences on Facebook, which we may link to. Facebook may set some of its own cookies if you follow these links. We use Facebook Pixel to track the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and make them more efficient. |
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| Twitter
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We have a number of presences and feeds on Twitter, which you may wish to follow or read from this website. Twitter may set some of its own cookies. |
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| YouTube | We have a YouTube channel, which we may link to. YouTube may set some of its own cookies if you follow those links. |
Marketing Cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites to allow publishers to display relevant and engaging advertisements. The below may also include pixels. Pixels perform a similar function to cookies and are used for the same purposes. More information on Facebook Pixel can be found here.
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Name |
Hostname |
Path |
Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
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_fbp |
.nottinghamcity.gov.uk |
/ |
180 days & 90 days |
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Facebook Pixel advertising first-party cookie. Used by Facebook to track visits across websites to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. Also used by the Council’s advertising partner CAN Digital Solutions Limited (CAN) to deliver targeted advertising across Facebook and Instagram. |
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IDE |
.doubleclick.net |
/ |
390 days |
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Used by Google's DoubleClick to serve targeted advertisements that are relevant to users across the web. Targeted advertisements may be displayed to users based on previous visits to a website. These cookies measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user. |
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gtag |
.nottinghamcity.gov.uk |
/ |
540 days |
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Published by Google and used by the Nottingham City Council’s advertising Partner CAN Digital Solutions Limited (CAN) to deliver targeted online advertising across the Google display network |
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cntrData |
.nottinghamcity.gov.uk |
/ |
180 days |
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Published by Centro (Basis DSP) and used by the Nottingham City Council’s media buying agency CAN Digital Solutions Ltd (CAN) to deliver targeted online advertising |
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