Harlow Council’s website uses some unobtrusive cookies to store information on your computer or device.
Cookies are small text files. They are primarily used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
Cookies help us to do the following:
- Measure how you use the website - so that it can be adjusted and improved over time to make sure it continues to meet your needs.
- Remember usernames and preferences - so that you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new web page.
- Analyze how well our website is performing - so that we can make sure there are no problems with accessing our website.
Cookies on harlow.gov.uk
| Cookie | Domain | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Siteimprove.com | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 2 years |
| AWSELBCORS | Siteimprove.com | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience | At the end of your session |
| cookie-agreed | Harlow.gov.uk | This cookie is used to remember your consent to our website’s cookies | 1 month |
| nmstat | Siteimprove.com | This cookie contains an ID string on the current session. This contains non-personal information on what subpages the visitor enters – this information is used to optimize the visitor's experience | 999 days |
| siteimproveses | Siteimprove.com | This cookie is used purely to track the sequence of pages you look at during a visit to the site. This information can be used to help us reduce user journeys, and enable visitors to find relevant information quicker | At the end of your session |
| SSESS | Harlow.gov.uk | This cookie is used by Drupal to link a user to a session so that information about their visit can be stored on the server as they move from one page to the next. This cookie also helps avoid session highjacking | 23 days |
Cookies on selfserve.harlow.gov.uk
| Cookie | Domain | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google.com | Used to distinguish users | 2 years |
| _gid | Google.com | Used to distinguish users | 24 hours |
| _gat | Google.com | Used to throttle request rate | 1 minute |
| AchieveFormsRedirectLink | Selfserve.harlow.gov.uk | Cookie that keeps the redirect link after email verification | 24 hours |
| APP_LANG | Selfserve.harlow.gov.uk | Language cookie that keeps information of with the user's system language. user’s system language. Contains environment variable | 24 hours |
| AWSALB | Siteimprove.com | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience | 6 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Siteimprove.com | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience | 6 days |
| localtime | Selfserve.harlow.gov.uk | Keeps information about the user's local time | At the end of your session |
| nmstat | Siteimprove.com | This cookie contains an ID string on the current session. This contains non-personal information on what subpages the visitor enters – this information is used to optimize the visitor's experience | 999 days |
| PHPSESSID | Selfserve.harlow.gov.uk | This cookie is used by the PHP web server to identify the unique browsing session. It is required for Forms to work. Contains the unique ID for the browsing session. | At the end of your session |
Consent
We need your consent to store these cookies on your device and request it in the cookie message banner at the top of your screen.
If you're not happy with the cookies we use and do not want to provide consent, you can change your browser settings to disable cookies on your device. However, some features of this website and other sites may be unavailable or might not work as you would expect.
This will also be the case where you choose to ignore the cookie message and it will continue to remind you.
You can withdraw your consent at any time by changing your browser settings and the All About Cookies website has some useful information on how to control and delete third-party cookies.
The cookies used on our site only collect browsing data and we do not collect or store any other personal information such as your name and address. This data cannot be used to identify who you are.
For more information on how we collect, use and protect personal information generally, as well as your rights as a data subject, you can read our main privacy notice