What is a cookie?
- A cookie is a small text file that a website transfers to the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the site can remember who you are.
- A cookie will typically contain the name of the website from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
- We cannot identify you personally by using a cookie. Cookies store no personal data and are not used to gather personal information.
How does Oxfordshire County Council use cookies?
- To collect statistics about your use of our website, such as when you last visited the site. This information is used to improve the user experience on our website.
- To make our job applications system more convenient to use by maintaining your login session between screens, so you don't have to log back in continually.
- To help us embed useful maps and videos from Google Maps, YouTube and Vimeo.
- In order to deliver the best possible experience, the site needs to know if you have JavaScript enabled. Instead of querying your browser each time a page loads, a cookie is set instead.
- Monitor visitor behavioural to see how users are completing forms/transactions and improve user experience.
Enabling or disabling cookies
- We recommend that you allow all cookies set by this site as they help us provide you with a better service.
- If you decide to delete or disable our cookies then you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our website.
- Information about how to enable or disable cookies is available on the about cookies website.
- Cookies used by Oxfordshire County Council, do not infringe on your privacy or threaten your computer's security.
Cookie pop-up
You may see a cookie pop-up welcome message when you visit. We’ll store a cookie so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and knows not to show it again.
| __popupCookie |
Tracks if a user has visited the site and see the cookie pop-up message |
9999 days |
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our site. This information is used for reporting purposes and to help us improve the customer experience on our site. Analytics uses its own cookie to track visitor interactions. The cookie is used to store information, such as what time the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before, and what site referred the visitor to the web page. The cookies set by Google Analytics are as follows:
| __ga |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate stats on how the visitor uses the website |
2 years |
| __gat |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
1 day |
| __gid |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate stats on how the visitor uses the website |
1 day |
You can
opt out of Google Analytics cookies.
YouTube
We use YouTube to house our video content, which is then embedded within our site. YouTube uses cookies. For example, to monitor the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and to monitor visitors and pages viewed. For more details please view the
YouTube Privacy Policy|.
Changing cookie settings
We use three types of cookies. You can decide which ones you want us to use.
How to change cookie settings in the browser
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through your browser settings. Visit
about cookies to learn more, including how to see what cookies have been set.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
You can
opt out of Google Analytics cookies.
