Cookies are small files stored on your device which contain information about your visit to websites; see cookiepedia.co.uk/all-about-cookies for more information.
Our cookies policy covers:
- what cookies do
- cookies used by this website
- cookies used by our service areas
- your consent to cookies
- managing cookies we set
- cookies and the law
What cookies do
Cookies are used to remember your settings when you revisit a website and to identify how you navigate the site. They provide valuable information which helps us to adapt and make changes, which improve your experience.
Depending on who sets them, how long they last, and what they are for, cookies can be one or more 'type':
- strictly necessary cookies enable you to move around a website and use its core features
- functionality cookies allow the website to remember choices you've made and provide a more enhanced, personalised service
- tracking and performance cookies collect information about how you use the website
- targeting and tracking cookies are used to provide more relevant advertising
- session cookies are temporary and normally deleted when you close your browser, they help you complete tasks online, for instance remembering your details when you complete forms or remembering recent search terms
- persistent cookies are stored for a fixed period of time and recognise if you've visited a website before or previously set any preferences, they also collect visitor statistics
- first party cookies are set directly by the website you're visiting and the information is only used by that website
- third party cookies are set by a different website or organisation to the one you're currently using and the data they collect may be shared
Cookies used by this website
Settings on this website allow some cookies by default, to give you the best experience. You can change your cookie preferences via our 'cookie banner'; alternatively see: managing cookies from york.gov.uk.
We use a mixture of cookie types to help improve your experience using our website:
- strictly necessary cookies enable you to move around the website and use its core features, to login and submit forms
- functionality cookies store your preferences and customer satisfaction feedback
- tracking and performance cookies gather visitor metrics to help us improve website performance
Cookies on york.gov.uk are used to:
- remember the preferences you set
- make form submission easier
- recognise when you're logged in
- log you out automatically after a period of time to protect your account against misuse
- know how many people have visited our website, the search terms they use and the journeys they make to locate content
- capture user feedback and ensure we only ask you to partake once
Many desktop web browsers allow you to manually check which cookies are in use. However, we have provided a list of cookies that may be stored on device when you use our website.
| Cookie name | Part of website / third party | Lasts for | Purpose | Type of cookie | Is this cookie strictly necessary? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | 2 years | Unique ID for the browser session, used to distinguish users by assigning a randomly generated number as a 'client identifier'; the ID is used only for statistics, and is anonymous. | Tracking and performance | No |
| _gat | Google Analytics | 24 hours | Used to throttle the request rate, limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. | Tracking and performance | No |
| _gid | Google Analytics | 10 minutes | A unique value for each page visited, used to distinguish users. The ID is used to identify new and returning visitors for statistics and is anonymous. | Tracking and performance | No |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics | 1 year, 10 months and 25 days | Used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. | Tracking and performance | No |
| AEC | 166 days | Ensures that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. | Functionality | Yes | |
| APISID | year and 25 days | Used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. | Tracking | No | |
| SAPISID | 1 year, 11 months, 17 days | Placed by Google Ads Optimisation. Enables Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube. | Performance and functionality | No | |
| SSID | 1 year, 11 months, 17 days | Used by Google to display personalised advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. | Performance and functionality | Yes | |
| HSID | 13 months | Contains encrypted entries of your Google account and the last login time to protect against attacks and data theft from form entries. | Performance and functionality | Yes | |
| NID | 6 months | Used by Google Ads Optimisation. Used to show Google Ads in Google services for signed-out users. Also used to provide ad delivery, retargeting and to store user preferences. | Tracking | No | |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | 1 year | Set by Google. Used to prevent the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. | Tracking | Yes | |
| SID | 13 months | Contains digitally signed and encrypted records of a user's Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. | Performance | No | |
| SIDCC | 13 months | This cookie carries out information about how the end user uses the website and any advertising that the end user may have seen before visiting the said website. | Performance and functionality | No | |
| __Secure-1PAPISID | 1 year and 25 days | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising. | Tracking | No | |
| __Secure-1PSID | 1 year and 25 days | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising. | Tracking | No | |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | 1 year and 25 days | Builds a profile of website the visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised advertisements through retargeting. | Tracking | No | |
| __Secure-3PSID | 1 year and 25 days | Builds a profile of website the visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised advertisements through retargeting. | Tracking | No | |
| _Secure-1PSIDCC | 1 year | Set by Google. Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising. | Functionality | No | |
| _Secure-1PSIDTS | 1 year | Collects information about your interactions with Google services and ads. It contains a unique identifier. | Functionality | No | |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | 1 year | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the visitor's interests in order to show relevant and personalised Google advertising. | Tracking | No | |
| __Secure-3PSIDTS | 1 year | Used to deliver ads based on user preferences and monitor ad-related interactions. | Tracking and performance | No | |
| cookie_consent_level | Cookie Banner | 2 months | This cookie enables your device to remember your preferences when you accepted or declined optional analytics cookies. | Functionality | Yes |
| cookie_consent_user_accepted | Cookie Banner | 2 months | This enables your device to remember when you set your cookie preferences. | Functionality | Yes |
| ai_user | My Account | 1 year | Associated with Microsoft Azure Application Insights (which collects statistical usage and telemetry information), this unique user identifier enables counting of the number of users accessing the application over time. | Tracking and performance | No |
| ai_session | My Account | Browser session | Associated with Microsoft Azure Application Insights, Tracks a user's session on the website. | Tracking and performance | No |
| Recite.Persist | ReciteMe | 1 year | Allows the toolbar to persist across subsequent web pages on client site once toolbar launched. | Functionality | Yes |
| Recite.Preferences | ReciteMe | 1 year | Allows user-selected settings to auto-load on subsequent web pages on a client site once toolbar launched. | Functionality | Yes |
| _cfuvid | ReciteMe | Browser session | The _cfuvid cookie is used by ReciteMe to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. | Functionality | No |
| elementor_split_test_client_id | ReciteMe | 1 year | Used by ReciteMe to provide functions across pages, store a unique user ID. | Functionality | No |
| __cf_bm | ReciteMe | 30 minutes | The__cf_bm cookie is a Cloudflare cookie used to manage and protect websites from malicious traffic, such as bots or automated attacks. | Functionality | No |
| _fbp | ReciteMe | 90 days | Identifies users and delivers personalised ads on Facebook and other Meta platforms after they visit a website | Tracking and performance | No |
| _zitok | ReciteMe | 24 hours | Helps in identifying unique visitors and gathering information about their company affiliations, which can be valuable for B2B marketing and sales strategies. Associated with ZoomInfo, a B2B data provider. | Tracking and performance | No |
| jadu_cc | CMS | Browser session | A session cookie containing a random string of characters, to store the session ID of a user, to determine whether they are logged in to our website. | Functionality | Yes |
| PHPSESSID | CMS | Browser session | Enables PHP websites to store serialised data in order to establish a user session and pass state data via a temporary cookie. | Functionality | Yes |
Cookies from other organisations
Some cookies are not related to york.gov.uk. We currently embed links or snippets of code from the following sites:
- YouTube - information on embedded videos
- Facebook - Facebook privacy policy
- Google Analytics - see what information is stored by Google
- Google Tag Manager - read more about Google Tag Manager
Cookies used by our service areas
Details of how our service areas use cookies can be found in the following cookie policies:
- Business Licensing Register cookie policy
- Claim for Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support eForm cookie policy
- City of York Council Registration Service cookie policy
- Concessionary Travel Passes cookie policy
- Council and Democracy cookie policy
- Council tax change of address eForm cookie policy
- Garden Waste Subscription Scheme cookie policy
- Job vacancies cookie policy
- Licensing for Houses in Multiple Occupation cookie policy
- My Account cookie policy
- Parking Portal cookie policy
- Online Payments System (Civica) cookie policy
- Search Planning Applications cookie policy
- Waste Collection Calendar cookie policy
- York Crematorium Book of Remembrance cookie policy
- York Financial Assistance Scheme cookie policy
- York Historic Environment Record cookie policy
- York Open Data cookie policy
Your consent to cookies
By browsing our website (and the other websites on this domain), you're accepting that we'll place 'strictly necessary' cookies on your device.
We recommend you continue to accept all of the cookies we set; they help us to provide you with a better service.
If you choose to delete our cookies, or disable future cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our website.
Managing cookies we set
Use our cookie banner to change your preferences; choose the type of cookies you allow/disable from our website. Alternatively, see 'How to manage cookies' in various browsers, via cookiepedia.
Using your (desktop) browser you can manually check which cookies are in use, and:
- delete any individual cookies your browser has stored previously
- set your browser to refuse cookies in future (or re-enable them at any time)
- opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites
Learn more about cookies and how to manage them from the Information Commissioner's Office.
Cookies and the law
A European privacy law The ePrivacy Directive gives users of websites and other digital media control over the information which is collected about them. The Information Commission's Office enforce this directive in the UK; cookies are also governed by data protection legislation.
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