Cookies

What are cookies?

Other websites, uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that web servers can store on your computer’s hard drive when you visit a website. Websites typically use cookies to ensure that you see the content you want when you go back to a site, to enable you to see protected content when you have logged in with a user name and password or to remember what you have put into your shopping cart when you are online shopping.

Cookies are stored on your computer – they are not associated with an individual, just with the browser that is being used. That's why information you may view on your work computer is not remembered when you go home. They do not store personally identifiable information.

Session or persistent cookies

Some cookies are session cookies. This means they are deleted when you close your web browser (that is Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari etc). These are the cookies typically used when you log into a bank or make an online purchase.

Other cookies are persistent. This means they remain on your computer until they expire. This can be a fixed time after you have visited the website (eg one year) or a particular date (eg 31 December 2015). These cookies are used to remember information between visits to a website. For example, if you tell the BBC website to remember which weather forecast you want to see, it will use a cookie to remember that.

First or third party cookies

First party cookies are set by the site you are visiting. In the example above the cookie would be set by the BBC. They are only read when you go back to the same site again.

Third party cookies are set by someone other than the site owner. These may be set by agencies who have placed adverts on a site you visit, by analytics programs that help site owners know how well their site is working and similar organisations. If you go to another site that uses the same advert provider, the cookie may be read again, and the advertising agency will be able to recognise that the same computer has visited this site too. This information is generally used by agencies to target adverts so that you are more likely to see adverts for products you are interested in.

Use of cookies by Hartlebury Parish Council

First party cookies

On this site we do not use cookies or third party advertising.

How can you control and delete cookies?

Hartlebury Parish Council will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, you have the right to disable or delete cookies. If you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by us, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings.

As the means by which you can do this varies from browser to browser, please follow the instructions provided by the specific browser you use (usually located under the “Help”, “Tools” or “Edit” function).

Alternatively, an external resource is available at www.aboutcookies.org which provides comprehensive information about cookies and how to manage them to suit your preferences on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer (including those from this visit) as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile device you will need to refer to your handset manual.

As mentioned above, some of our services require cookies in your browser to help protect your financial and personal information. If you choose to set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access secure areas of this site (including online banking functionality).

Where can I get more information?