What are cookies?
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Cookies are used to:
- measure how you use the website, so that it can be updated and improved based on your needs
- remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again
Our cookies cannot read other data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. We do not use cookies for collecting personal user information.
Why do we have a cookies bar appearing on our website?
We have a bar that appears when you come to our website.
This highlights that our website uses cookies.
We need to make you aware that cookies exist, to comply with cookie law; the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR).
When you see the cookie bar, you can:
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Cookies used on this website
There are four types of cookies which are shown below. You can either click on a catgegory name or view the table below, which has them listed alphabetically:
This list was last updated on 21 February 2024.
| Title | Category | Cookie provider | Cookie type | Cookie purpose description | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Marketing | Central Bedfordshire Council | HTTP | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months |
| _ga | Marketing | Central Bedfordshire Council | HTTP | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | 2 years |
| _ga_# | Marketing | Central Bedfordshire Council | HTTP | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Session |
| _gcl_au | Marketing | Central Bedfordshire Council | HTTP | Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. | 3 months |
| _pk_id# | Statistics | Central Bedfordshire Council | HTTP | Collects statistics on the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been read. | Session |
| _pk_ses# | Statistics | Central Bedfordshire Council | HTTP | Used by Piwik Analytics Platform to track page requests from the visitor during the session. | Session |
| __cf_bm | Necessary | fonts.net | HTTP | Unclassified | 1 day |
| __cf_bm | Unclassified | vimeo.com | HTTP | Unclassified | 1 day |