What are cookies?
Cookies are files saved on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website.
We use cookies to store information about how you use our websites, such as the pages you visit.
Why we use cookies
We use cookies to improve things by:
- remembering the things you select while on our website, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page
- remembering data you’ve given (for example, your address) so you don’t need to keep entering it
- measuring how you use the website so we can make sure it meets your needs
We do not use cookies on this website that collect information about what other websites you visit (often referred to as privacy intrusive cookies).
Our cookies are not used to identify you personally. They’re just here to make the site work better for you. You can manage and delete these files as you wish.
Unless the law allows us to, we do not:
- share any of the data we collect about you with others
- use this data to identify individuals
Cookies use by this website
Necessary cookies
This site uses a strictly necessary session cookie to maintain your browsing session. This cookie contains a unique identifier which expires when you close your browser. No personal data is stored within the cookie itself.
Cookie Control
Cookie Control is the well-known cookie management platform created by CIVIC UK, to manage consent for your website's cookies. Cookie Control is used by the UK ICO.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| CookieControl | Stores user consent preferences for your website. | 3 months |
| CookieControlTC | Stores IAB TCF consent preferences. | 3 months |
Cloudflare
Keeps the user identified properly across Cloudflare instances, speed up page load times and helps improve security of the website.
| Cookie name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| __cfduid | The '__cfduid' cookie is set by the CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable | 5 years |
| __cfruid | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Session |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions. | 30 minutes |
| cf_chl_2 | Used by Cloudflare for the execution of Javascript or Captcha challenges. These cookies are not used for tracking or beyond the scope of the challenge. | session |
| __cflb | When enabling session affinity with Cloudflare Load Balancer, Cloudflare sets a __cflb cookie with a unique value on the first response to the requesting client. Cloudflare routes future requests to the same origin, optimizing network resource usage. In the event of a failover, Cloudflare sets a new __cflb cookie to direct future requests to the failover pool. | 30 minutes |
| _cfuvid | The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule, and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address. | Session |
| cf_clearance | Whether a CAPTCHA or Javascript challenge has been solved. | 1 year |
Amazon Web Services
These cookies are used to manage server traffic and ensure our website remains stable and responsive during your visit.
| Cookie Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| AWSALB | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBCORS (ALB). | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSALBCORS (ALB). | 7 days |
| AWSELBCORS | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSELBCORS (ALB). | Session |
| AWSELB | AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. | Session |
| AWSALBTGCORS | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSELBCORS (ALB). | Session |
| AWSALBTG | For continued stickiness support with CORS use cases after the Chromium update, we are creating additional stickiness cookies for each of these duration-based stickiness features named AWSELBCORS (ALB). | Session |
| aws-csds-token | Anonymous metrics validation token | 1 Hour |
| aws_lang | Stores the language used with AWS. | Session |
| aws-target-visitor-id | Used to collect anonymised information about how which web pages are visited, how long users spend on pages and what users search for. | 1 Year |
| aws-priv | Anonymous cookie for privacy regulations | 1 Year |
Session cookies (lincolnshire.gov.uk)
These cookies allow users to be recognized within a website so any page changes or item or data selection you do is remembered from page to page.
| Cookie name | Duration |
|---|---|
| cookietest | Only valid during the current browser session. They will be deleted when you close your browser. |
| hs_lastaccesstime4771 | Only valid during the current browser session. They will be deleted when you close your browser. |
| sessionid4771 | Only valid during the current browser session. They will be deleted when you close your browser. |
| hs_sessionid4771 | Only valid during the current browser session. They will be deleted when you close your browser. |
| lastaccesstime4771 | Only valid during the current browser session. They will be deleted when you close your browser. |
Analytical cookies
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs. We do not allow Google to use or share the data about how you use this site. Google Analytics sets cookies that store anonymised information about:
- how you got to the site
- the pages you visit and how long you spend on each page
- what you click on while visiting the site
Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data.
| Name | Description | Retention Period |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | ID used to identify users | 1 years |
| _ga_* | Used to identify and track an individual user session. | 2 years |
| _gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager | 58 seconds |
| _dc_gtm_ | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 1 minute |
| AMP_TOKEN | Contains a token code that is used to read out a Client ID from the AMP Client ID Service. By matching this ID with that of Google Analytics, users can be matched when switching between AMP content and non-AMP content. | 1 year |
| _gat_* | Used to set and get tracking data | 1 hour |
| _gac_ | Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together. | 90 days |
| __utma | ID used to identify users and sessions | 2 years |
| __utmt | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 10 minutes |
| __utmb | Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 30 minutes |
| __utmc | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. | session |
| __utmz | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server | 6 months |
| __utmv | Contains custom information set by the web developer through the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated each time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 2 years |
| __utmx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. | 18 months |
| __utmxx | Used to determine when the A / B or Multivariate test in which the user participates ends | 18 months |
| FPAU | Assigns a specific ID to the visitor. This allows the website to determine the number of specific user-visits for analysis and statistics. | session |
| FPID | Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. | 1 years |
| FPLC | This FPLC cookie is the cross-domain linker cookie hashed from the FPID cookie. It’s not HttpOnly, which means it can be read with JavaScript. It has a relatively short lifetime, just 20 hours. | 20 hours |
You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites.
Flourish
Flourish is used to embed interactive charts on our site, which uses analytical cookies to measure how visualisations are used and how visitors arrive at them.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| _sp_id.* | Stores user information that is created when a user first visits a site and updated on subsequent visits | 2 years |
| _sp_ses.* | Used to identify if the user is in an active session on a site or if this is a new session for a user | Session |
| inbound_fields | Stores the referrer and landing page | 30 days |
Marketing cookies
We use videos from YouTube and feeds from other websites such as Facebook and Twitter. These websites place cookies on your device when watching or viewing these pages which can influence adverts when browsing the internet.
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