Cookies Policy
Carrington Parish Council puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.
Cookies are used to:
measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
Find out more about how to manage cookies.
How cookies are used
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use Carrington Parish Council Website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements.
Google Analytics stores information about:
the pages you visit
how long you spend on each page
how you got to the sites
what you click on while you’re visiting the sites
We don’t collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are.
We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data. You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
Universal Analytics
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Name
Purpose
Expires
__ga
This helps us count how many people visit the website by tracking if you’ve visited before
2 years
__gid
This helps us count how many people visit the website by tracking if you’ve visited before
24 hours
__gat
Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made
10 minutes
Google Analytics
Name
Purpose
Expires
__utma
Like _ga, this lets us know if you’ve visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to quals-direct.co.uk (including sub domains) and quals.direct or to a certain page
2 years
__utmb
This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on quals-direct.co.uk (including sub domains) and quals.direct
30 minutes
__utmc
This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser
When you close your browser
__utmz
This tells us how you reached the website (for example from another website or a search engine)
6 months
Version 1.0 – December 2019