Tower Hamlets Council cookies policy
What is a cookie?
A website session “cookie” is a file containing a small amount
of data that is sent to your computer when you visit a website.
When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that site to
recognise your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and
other information. Many websites do this whenever a user visits
their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your
browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your
browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already
sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other websites. Many
websites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to
track online traffic flows.
You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate
when a cookie is being sent. However, some website features or
services may not function properly without cookies. Each browser is
different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to
change your cookie preferences.
Controlling cookies
How you control cookies depends on your browser. For full
instructions covering all the main browsers read the information on
http://www.aboutcookies.org/
How do we use cookies?
During the course of any visit to the Tower Hamlets Council
website, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to
your web browsing device. Cookies enable website publishers to do
useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its
user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat
visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the
last visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse
information about our visitors which helps us to provide them with
a better service.
Some online services on our website use cookies for a specific
reason, for example to help online transactions work
effectively. If this is the case, the local terms for that
application will make this clear and you should refer to those
local terms for additional information.
Cookies on the Tower Hamlets Council website
Tower Hamlets Council uses cookies within the following
applications for the smooth running of its website but does not use
the information collected to match any individual’s identity. Tower
Hamlets Council also automatically receives and records information
on server logs from your browser including your IP Address and the
page you requested. This enables us to monitor overall site usage and identify
technical errors. If you choose to disable cookies, you may still
use this website, however, you may have limited access to some
pages.
Google Site Search and Google Analytics
For more information on cookies set by Google Analytics or
Google Site Search, including information on how to opt out please
go to: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html
For information on how to opt out of Google Analytics to
to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
The following applications use cookies for the duration of the
user session for authentication purposes ort for the smooth running
of the site. No user information or tracking information is stored
in these application’s cookies.
Third party cookies
Please note that during your visits to our website you may
notice some cookies that are not related to Tower Hamlets Council
web content. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for
example, SurveyMonkey, YouTube or Facebook, you may be presented
with cookies from these websites. Tower Hamlets Council does not
control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the
third party websites for more information about these.
For more about website cookies, including how to control
and delete them, go to http://www.aboutcookies.org/
Cookies and session cookies that we set on the
.towerhamlets.gov.uk domain.
| Cookie name |
Prupose |
| _utma |
Google analytics - This
cookie is used to calculate unique visitors. The cookie expires 2
years after your last visit to the page |
| _utma |
Google analytics - This
cookie is used to calculate unique visitors. The cookie expires 2
years after your last visit to the page |
| _utmb |
Google analytics - This
cookie is used to track you current session while you are on the
website. The cookie expires 30 minutes after you leave the
website |
| _utmc |
Google analytics - This
cookie is used to tell how long a session or visit lasted. This
cookie expires when you leave the site or close the browser
window. |
| _utmz |
Google analytics - This
cookie is used to find the referrers for your visits to attribute
your visit to the correct source. This cookie expires 6 months
after your last visit to the website. |
| nmstat |
Site improve - This cookie
is used to help record the visitor’s use of the website. It is used
to collect statistics about site usage such as when the visitor
last visited the site. This information is then used to improve the
user experience on the website. This Siteimprove Analytics cookie
contains a randomly generated ID used to recognise the browser when
a visitor reads a page. The cookie contains no personal information
and is used only for web analytics. |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
This cookie is used purely to track the sequence of pages a
visitor looks at during a visit to the site. This information can
be used to reduce user journeys, and enable visitors to find
relevant information quicker. |
Cookies set while using our website by third party
suppliers
| Supplier |
Cookie(s) |
Purpose |
| Session ID |
ASP.NET_SessionId |
Used by multiple sites -
This cookie is used purely to track the sequence of pages a visitor
looks at during a visit to the site. This information can be used
to reduce user journeys, and enable visitors to find relevant
information quicker. |
| FirmStep |
firmstep2server |
This cookie is used to direct your request to the appropriate
server. No personal information is stored. |
| FirmStep |
firmstep2session |
This cookie is a unique identifier given to you for the
duration of your site visit. It is used to ensure that you and only
you are shown information relevant to you. It contains no
personally identifiable information. |
| YouTube |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
This cookie is used to track how many times a video on YouTube
has been watched and shared. |
| PageSuite |
PST |
This cookie is used for monitoring and load balancing between
PageSuite's servers while you are linked to the website. PageSuite
Limited does not use its persistent or session cookies to store
personal information about you. PageSuite Limited may pass the
non-personal information collected by its cookies to third parties
but only for the purposes of carrying out such monitoring, analysis
or web log auditing, or for the purposes of tracking the number of
anonymous users of the website. |
| Objective |
ServerID |
Objective - Planning
consultation Need info from
supplier |
| Survey Monkey |
ep201 |
This cookie may be set if you follow one of our links to a
Survey. They expire when you exit the survey or close your browser
window |
| Survey Monkey |
TSc1209a |
This cookie may be set if you follow one of our links to a
Survey. They expire when you exit the survey or close your browser
window |
| Survey Monkey |
TS54026e |
This cookie may be set if you follow one of our links to a
Survey. They expire when you exit the survey or close your browser
window |
| Survey Monkey |
TS39fa47 |
This cookie may be set if you follow one of our links to a
Survey. They expire when you exit the survey or close your browser
window |
| Survey Monkey |
P_14552132 |
This cookie may be set if you follow one of our links to a
Survey. They expire when you exit the survey or close your browser
window |
| Survey Monkey |
P_19807288 |
This cookie may be set if you follow one of our links to a
Survey. They expire when you exit the survey or close your browser
window |
| Survey Monkey |
ep202 |
This cookie may be set if you follow one of our links to a
Survey. It expires 366 days after it is first set. |