Cookies

Cookie statement

Runnymede Borough Council website places small files called cookies onto your computer or mobile device.

Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.

We make every effort to maintain the accuracy of the information on this website and this cookie statement applies to this entire website, www.runnymede.gov.uk.

This cookie statement does not apply to linked external websites. When linking to another website, we recommend reading their privacy statement on cookies.

Read on to find out more about the cookies we use, what they are for, and when they expire. 

Necessary cookies help make our website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Cookie: OptanonConsent
Purpose: This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.
Expires:  Persistent

Cookie: PHPSESSID
Purpose: Preserves user session state across the page requests
Expires: Session

Cookie: OptanonAlertBoxClosed
Purpose: This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust.  It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down.  It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user.  The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.
Expires: Persistent

Cookie: __data/layers.json__data
Purpose: This cookie is set by Runnymede map service enabling you to use the mapping service. 
Expires: Persistent

Cookie: __data/layers.json__data__ttl__
Purpose: This cookie is set by Runnymede map service enabling you to use the mapping service. 
Expires:  Persistent

Cookie: __data/layers.json__protocol
Purpose: This cookie is set by Runnymede map service enabling you to use the mapping service. 
Expires: Persistent

Cookie: __data/layers.json__protocol__ttl__
Purpose: This cookie is set by Runnymede map service enabling you to use the mapping service.  
Expires: Persistent

Cookie: __data/layers.json__thumbprint
Purpose: This cookie is set by Runnymede map service enabling you to use the mapping service. This cookie is used to display thumbnail images in the map legends.
Expires: Persistent

Cookie: __data/layers.json__thumbprint__ttl_
Purpose: This cookie is set by Runnymede map service enabling you to use the mapping service. This cookie is used to display thumbnail images in the map legends. 
Expires: Persistent

Cookie: cf_use_ob
Purpose: Cloudflare - related to the Always Online feature (“ob” = “offline browsing”). They are there to let the CDN know to continue serving “Always Online” until the cookie expires. 
Expires: at least one session

Analytical cookies are used to collect and report information on how our website is used. This helps us to improve the website based on the needs and behaviour of our visitors.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how visitors use our website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. We also collect the following information: IP address, country, browser, operating system, and screen resolution.

Cookie: _ga
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 
Expires:  2 Years

Cookie: _gid
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Expires: 1 day

Cookie: _gat
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Expires: 1 day

Cookie: collect
Purpose: Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. 
Expires: Pixel tracke

Cookie: sb
Purpose: to store browser details
Expires: 2 years

Cookie: fr
Purpose: deliver, measure and improve the relevancy of ads
Expires: 90 days

We use Microsoft Clarity to anonymously gather information on how our visitors engage with www.runnymede.gov.uk for example

  • to generate heat maps of how visitors have navigated around an individual page 
  • to record individual visitor sessions to the site

Microsoft Clarity anonymity protections field masking setting is set to 'Strict' – all text is masked in recordings

This information helps us to develop our website to improve our users’ experience.

Name: clck
Purpose: Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID
Value passed: String

Name: clsk
Purpose: Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording
Value passed: String

Name: CLID
Purpose: Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity
Value passed: String 

Name: ANONCHK
Purpose: Indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn't use ANID and so this is always set to 0.
Value passed: Flag

Name: MR
Purpose: Indicates whether to refresh MUID
Value passed: Flag

Name: MUID
Purpose: Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes.
Value passed: GUID

Name: SM
Purpose: Used in synchronizing the MUID across Microsoft domains
Value passed: Character flag

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers. 

Cookie: lang
Purpose: This domain is owned by Twitter. It collects data through a range of plug-ins and integrations, that is primarily used for tracking and targeting.
Expires: Session

Cookie: ads/ga-audiences
Purpose: Used by Google AdWords to re-engage visitors that are likely to convert to customers based on the visitor's online behaviour across websites. Google privacy statement
Expires: Pixel tracker

Cookie: IDE
Purpose: Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user Google privacy statement
Expires: 1 years

Cookie: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Purpose: Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos YouTube privacy policy
Expires: 179 days

Cookie: YSC
Purpose: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen YouTube privacy policy
Expires: Session

Cookie: yt.innertube::nextId
Purpose: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen YouTube privacy policy
Expires: Persistent

Cookie: yt-remote-cast-available
Purpose: Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video YouTube privacy policy
Expires: Session

Cookie: yt-remote-cast-installed
Purpose: Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video YouTube privacy policy
Expires: Persistent

Cookie: fr
Purpose: to provide ad delivery
Expires: 3 months

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