Use of cookies on this site

Last Updated: 21 November 2023

We use cookies to help us improve our website. We collect data in a way that doesn't identify you and data isn't shared with anyone else.

The table below gives details of all cookies we set.

This website will function fully for you if you do not wish to accept our persistent cookies.

Details of cookies used on SLDC website
Cookie name Used by Type Description Lifetime
ASP.NET_SessionID

SOCITM

Govmetric

Self Service

Democracy

Session Identifies your session to the web server. End of browser session
_ceg.s

Crazy Egg

Recruitment

Persistent Used to register where the visitor clicks on the website. The cookie enables the service to recognise the visitor on returning visits. 3 months
_ceg.u

Crazy Egg

Recruitment

Persistent Used to register where the visitor clicks on the website. The cookie enables the service to recognise the visitor on returning visits. 3 months
_ceir

Recruitment

Persistent Unclassified. 5 years
_ga

Gov.uk

Recruitment

Google Analytics

Persistent Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 2 years
_gat

Google Analytics

Recruitment

Persistent Used to throttle request rate. 1 minute
_gid

Google Analytics

Recruitment

Persistent Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. 24 hours
_ _ utma

Google Analytics

Persistent Used to identify unique visitors. Keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. 2 years from set/update
_ _ utmt

Google Analytics

Session Used to throttle request rate. 10 minutes
_ _ utmb

Google Analytics

Session Used to track a user session on our site. Takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor enters a site. 30 minutes from set/update
_ _ utmc

Google Analytics

Session Used to track a user session on our site. Takes a timestamp of the exact moment in time when a visitor leaves a site. End of browser session
_ _ utmz

Google Analytics

Persistent Keeps track of where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked, what keyword was used, and where they were in the world. 6 months from set/update
_ _ utmv

Google Analytics

Persistent Used in customer reporting in Google Analytics. 2 years from set/update
IDE

Google Analytics

Persistent Used to collect visitor demographics. 1 year
Image.aspx

SiteImprove

Session Unclassified. End of browser session
nmstat

South Lakeland

  Used to determine if the user has visited the website previously. 999 days
siteimproveses

SiteImprove

Session Used to register the order of pages that the user has visited on the website. End of browser session
_EDGE_S

bing.com

Session Unclassified. End of browser session
_EDGE_V

bing.com

  Unclassified. 1 year
_SS

bing.com

Session Unclassified. End of browser session
collect

Google Analytics

Session Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. End of browser session
MUID

bing.com

Persistent Used widely by Microsoft as a unique user ID. The cookie enables user tracking by synchronising the ID across many Microsoft domains. 1 year
MUIDB

bing.com

Persistent Unclassified. 1 year
Socitm_test_cookies#

South Lakeland

Persistent Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. 1 year
SRCHD

bing.com

Persistent Unclassified. 2 years
SRCHUID

bing.com

Persistent Unclassified. 2 years
SRCHUSR

bing.com

Persistent Unclassified. 2 years
S

gtrk.s3.amaxonaws

Session Unclassified. End of browser session
SERVERID

South Lakeland Self Service

Session Used to identify the server the form was created on. End of browser session
SouthlakelandCookie

Browser

Persistent Used to identify if the cookies message in the header should be shown. 1 year
trk.cetrk.com/s

S3.amaxonaws.com

Session Unclassified. End of browser session
u

Gtrk.s3.amazonaws.com

Session Unclassified. End of browser session
JESSIONID

Web Mapping

Payments

Session Identifies your session to the mapping server. End of browser session
ASPSESSIONIDSQSSDRDC

Planning register

Licensing register

Session Identifies your session to the server. End of browser session
socitm_exclude_me27

SOCITM Insight Survey

Persistent Indicates whether a visitor has rejected the Insight survey. 1 year
atLocation

Web mapping

Persistent Stores the most recently set address and coordinates. Allows us to show the maps as you left them when you return next time. 1 month
astun

Web mapping

Persistent Version number of web mapping software. 1 month
astun:baseMap

Web mapping

Persistent Stores the last map type used. Allows us to show the maps as you left them when you return next time. 1 year
astun:currentLocation

Web mapping

Persistent Most recently set address and its coordinates (alternative cookie). 1 month
astun:layerPanelOpenGroups

Web mapping

Persistent The last layer panel opened. Allows us to show the maps as you left them when you return next time. 1 year
astun:mapSource

Web mapping

Persistent Identifier for map overlay configuration. 1 year
astun:mapView

Web mapping

Persistent Location and extent of the most recent view of the map. Allows us to show the maps as you left them when you return next time. 1 year
astun:previousLocation

Web mapping

Persistent Stores the address and coordinates of last location selected in My Maps. Allows us to show the maps as you left them when you return next time. 1 year

What do we do with the data we get from our use of cookies?

  • We will not (and will not allow any third party) to use the statistical analytics tools we employ to track or to collect any personally identifiable information about 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 or SOCITM survey
  • Google and SOCITM will not associate your IP address with any other data held by them
  • South Lakeland District Council will not link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user

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