Cookies on our website
How the Brighton & Hove Council website uses cookies.
The Brighton & Hove City Council website uses cookies to:
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remember settings you have chosen, like website translation and font size, and actions you have taken, for example submitting a form, meaning you don’t need to re-enter this information each time you visit a new web page
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gather information about how our website is used to help us maintain and develop our services - for example we monitor what pages and links are most popular
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not personally identify you or collect information about you as an individual
You can decide what cookies are allowed and delete cookies at any time by adjusting settings on your web browser. Please be aware that restricting cookies may have an impact upon the functionality of our website.
Where personal data is requested through forms, the data is only used for the purpose stated on the form and will not be given or sold to any third parties.
This privacy policy only covers the Brighton & Hove City Council website and beta.brighton-hove.gov.uk. Websites linked to and from this site are not covered by this policy. External sites linked to from our website include our social media sites. Go to our external links disclaimer for more information.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how you use our website. Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit
- how long you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
Cookies set by Google Analytics
| Name | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|
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_utma |
randomly generated number |
2 years |
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_utmb |
randomly generated number |
30 minutes |
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_utmc |
randomly generated number |
when you close the browser |
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_utmx |
randomly generated number |
2 years |
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_utmxx |
randomly generated number |
2 years |
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_utmz |
randomly generated number and information on how the site was reached (for example directly, or by a link or search) |
6 months |
Opt out of Google Analytics tracking
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by downloading their broswer add-on.
Social media cookies
We embed our video content using YouTube. Information on how YouTube uses cookies can be found on the Google privacy pages. We have used YouTube's 'no-cookie' domain to stream videos on our site. This means that cookies will only be set by YouTube if you play the video.
Some of our web pages include Twitter streams. These use cookies, set by the service provider. Go to the Twitter Privacy policy page
Third party site disclaimer
Please note that external sites including social media sites linked from our website may also use cookies. You need to check with these external sites what information is being collected using cookies.