Like most websites, we sometimes place small data files on your computer. These are known as cookies. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
These are the types of cookies we use:
- Strictly necessary cookies – These cookies are used to make different parts our websites work. Without them, services, information and guidance that you are looking for can’t be provided.
- Functional cookies – These cookies are used to remember your settings (where provided), so you don’t have to keep re-entering or configuring them whenever you visit a new page. They may also be used when we have added a 3rd party service to offer additional functionaility such as Video, Social Media or WebChat facilities.
- Performance Cookies – These cookies help us understand how people are using our websites, so we can make them better. We do not capture personal or identifiable information with these cookies.
- Marketing Cookies – These cookies are used to show relevant marketing materials based on your preferences. We do not use these types of cookies on the the majority of our sites, and where we do, we will ask for you to specifically opt-in. Any data captured will not be shared or combined for personal profiling.
Some examples of how we are using cookies:
- Help us understand how people are using our services, so we can make them better
- Help us personalise your experience by remembering your preferences and settings.
- Remember information about you, so you don’t have to give it to us again.
- Keep you signed in, even on different devices
Our cookies aren’t used to identify you personally. They’re just here to make the site work better for you. You can manage and/or delete them as you wish.
Find out more about how to manage cookies.
What cookies do we use?
Strictly necessary cookies
WordPress
WordPress is the Content Management System (CMS) we use to build our website. The cookies that it generates are strictly necessary for our websites to run.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Preserves user session state across page requests | End of session |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies | End of session |
| wordpress_sec_2895c52f8effb96dc69c55a97f37a995 | WordPress uses to determine whether a user is logged in or not | |
| wp-saving-post | Created when auto-saving a post in the editor | |
| __utmli | End of session | |
| accesscontrast | End of session | |
| accessfont | End of session | |
| cookies_lhc.js | End of session |
Functional cookies
Remembering if you’ve seen our introductory message
On your first visit to devon.gov.uk, you’ll be greeted by an introduction message. When you close the message, we’ll store a cookie so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and knows not to show it again (and again…). However if you have chosen to disable cookies in your browser this message will reappear each time you visit.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| dccgel | The word ‘accepted’ once you have closed the introduction box. | 6 months |
| wad_post_time | Timestamp of the most recent #WeAreDevon post | When the browser cache is cleared |
| CookieConsent | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain | 1 year |
Web chat
We use web chat in places to help you with problems you might have with some services.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _tawkuuid | To detect our visitor’s basic information; the page they are currently viewing, the language of their browser and their ip addresses. This makes it possible for us to help them with the best information about how to solves their issues or answer their questions through a live chat application. | End of session |
Email subscriptions
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| mp_#_mixpanel | This cookie is generated by our 3rd party provider for email subscriptions GovDelivery. It helps us understand how many people have signed up to receive emails but does not capture any personal or identifiable information. | 1 year |
YouTube cookies
We occasionally embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location | End of session |
| PREF | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites | 8 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos | 179 days |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen | End of session |
Performance Cookies
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on.
We do not collect or store your personal information (for example, your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are and we do not share or allow Google to use our analytics data.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
Universal Analytics
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website | 2 years |
| _gat | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | End of session |
| _gid | Stores and updates a unique value for each page visited | End of session |
Google Analytics
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _utma | Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit | 2 years |
| _utmb | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website | 30 minutes |
| _utmc | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website | when you close your browser |
| _utmt | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server | End of session |
| _utmv | Used to store visitor level custom variable data | ? |
| _utmz | Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. | 6 months |
| _utm.gif | Tracking Code that logs details about the visitor’s browser and computer. | End of session |
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies.