Like many other web sites we use Cookies on our site. Cookies
can help a website to personalise your visit. A Cookie is a
text-only string of information that a website transfers to the
Cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the
website can, among other things, remember who you are. A Cookie
will typically contain the name of the domain from which the Cookie
has come, the "lifetime" of the Cookie, and a value, usually a
randomly generated unique number. Three types of electronic access,
storage and/or tracing devices are used on this website:
Session Cookies:
Which are temporary Cookies that remain in the cookie file of
your browser until you leave the site. This information is not
stored after you have left the site.
Persistent cookies:
Which remain in the Cookie file of your browser for much longer
(though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie
but this may be indefinitely or until deleted).
Web Beacons:
Which are electronic images known as Web Beacons (also called
"clear gifs" or "web bugs") that allow us to count the number of
users who have visited these Web pages.
Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. However,
if you are an existing customer and you have logged onto this site
and identified yourself as a customer, we may be able to connect
your personal information with your cookie information.
How to control and delete cookies
Cheshire West and Chester Council will not use cookies to
collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if
you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by the
Cheshire West and Chester Council website, or indeed any
other website, you can do this through your browser settings.
If you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer:
- open ‘Windows Explorer’;
- click on the ‘Search’ button on the tool bar;
- type ‘cookie’ into the search box for ‘Folders and files’;
- select ‘My computer’ in the ’Look in’ box;
- click ‘Search now’;
- double click on the folders that are found;
- select any cookie file; and then
- use the ‘Delete’ button on your keyboard.
If you are not using Microsoft Windows Explorer, then you should
select ‘cookies’ in the ‘Help’ function for information on where to
find your cookie folder.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit About Cookies which
contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide
variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete
cookies from your machine as well as more general information about
cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may cause the
Cheshire West and Chester Council website to work incorrectly.
If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to
open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers
are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server
that gave you the cookie.
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile
phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
List of the main Cheshire West and Chester Cookies
CWAC.Widgets
Used for positioning of the front page widgets. Simply
remembers your preference for ordering the site widgets
CWAC.Postcode
Used to store your user preferences for geographic specific
content.
CWAC.MyLinks
Used to store a list of favoured links selected/subscribed to by
the user.
CWAC.Subscriptions
Used to store user email contact details to notify user when
selected pages have been updated.changed. This is an opt in
service.
Third party cookies
Google Analytics
The Cheshire West and Chester Council website uses
Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc.
Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of the
Cheshire West and Chester Council website.
This analytical tool uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on
your computer, to collect standard internet log information and
visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information
generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including
your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then
used to evaluate visitors use of the website and to compile
statistical reports on website activity for Cheshire West and
Chester Council.
Cheshire West and Chester Council will not (and will not allow
any third party) to use the statistical analytics tool to track or
to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to
our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site
with any personally identifying information from any source as part
of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool. Google will
not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
Neither Cheshire West and Chester Council nor Google will
link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a
computer user.
By using the Cheshire West and Chester Council website ,
you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the
manner and for the purposes set out above.
For more information on the cookie set by Google Analytics
please go see Google's privacy
policy. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across
all websites please go to Google's opt out
page.