Cookies

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.

Please read the below carefully and let us know if you have any questions

Cookies are small files which are sent to your browser (for example Safari or Chrome) and stored on your device's storage disk. They only identify your computer and not you personally. The cookies we use are:-

Website session cookie

This cookie is set by our website's content management system (Squiz Matrix) and enables us to log in and administer the site. It does not affect public users.

Google Analytics / web analytics cookies

These cookies are used to help record your use of this website. They are used to collect statistics about site usage such as when you last visited the site. This information is then used to improve the user experience on our website. The Google Analytics cookies contain randomly generated IDs used to recognise your browser when you read a page. The cookies contain no personal information and are used only for web analytics. The Google Analytics cookies are called _utma, _utmb, _umtc, utmt_utmz, and _ga, _gat and _gid.  They will appear in the list of cookies under peakdistrict.gov.uk.

_utma tracks whether you have visited the website before. It is set to expire 26 months after your last visit.  

_utmb establishes a 'user session' and tracks which pages you look at on this visit to the website.  It is set to expire 30 minutes after your last visit.

_utmc is connected with _utmb and expires when you close your browser, rather than just visit another website.

_utmt is used to throttle the request rate and expires after 10 minutes.

_utmz tracks whether you have come to the website from a search engine, another website or have typed the web address directly into your browser. It is set to expire 6 months after it was last set.

_ga is used to distinguish users and expires 2 years after it was last set.

_gat is used to throttle the request rate and expires after 1 minute

_gid is used to distinguish users and expires after 24 hours.

Change in status of IP addresses

From 25 May 2018 IP addresses are considered personally identifiable information.  Whilst IP addresses were never accessible to us, they had historically used by Google Analytics to improve the accuracy of reports showing visitors’ geographic area.  Since 17 April 2018, IP address collection has been anonymised by replacing the last number with 0.

Cookies for social media

We have a number of social media accounts:

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We encourage you to accept the cookies our website uses as they help us to improve the user experience for you and many others.

To delete cookies or reject cookies If you do not want to receive cookies from this website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options, then add our domain to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from. Under settings you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored. You can find more information on how to delete and control cookies at http://www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=2 or  https://cookies.insites.com/disable-cookies/

If you are making a purchase from our online shop (shop.peakdistrict.gov.uk) we will also use cookies to keep track of the transaction from one page to the next. Other than this, we do not store your password or any other information in the cookie, or use it for any other purpose.