About cookies

Our website puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site. Find out more about the cookies we use, what they are for and when they expire.

Cookies that measure website use

We use Google Analytics software (Universal Analytics) to collect anonymised information about how you use crawley.gov.uk.

We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements to the site.

We do not allow Google to use or share the data about how you use crawley.gov.uk.

Google Analytics stores information about:

  • how you got to the site
  • the pages you visit on crawley.gov.uk and how long you spend on them
  • what you click on while you’re visiting the site

Google Analytics sets the following cookies:

Name
Purpose
Expires
Name:
_ga
Purpose:
These help us count how many people visit crawley.gov.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before
Expires:
2 years
Name:
_gid
Purpose:
These help us count how many people visit crawley.gov.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before
Expires:
24 hours
Name:
_gat_gtag_[property_id]
Purpose:
The tracking ID connects the data about website visits to our Google Analytics account
Expires:
1 minute

Cookies that help with our communications and marketing

Some pages may contain content from other sites, like YouTube, which may set their own cookies. These are sometimes called ‘third party’ services. This tells us how many people are seeing the content and whether it’s useful.

In addition, if you share a link to a crawley.gov.uk page, the service you share it on (for example, Facebook) may set a cookie. We have no control over cookies set on other websites - you can turn them off, but not through us.

YouTube videos

We use YouTube to show videos on some pages. YouTube sets cookies when you visit one of these pages.

Name
Purpose
Expires
Name:
_use_hitbox
Purpose:
This is a randomly generated number that identifies your browser
Expires:
When you close your browser
Name:
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Purpose:
Lets YouTube count the views of embedded YouTube videos
Expires:
9 months

Strictly necessary cookies

Cookies message

You may see a banner when you visit our website inviting you to accept cookies or review your settings. We will set cookies so that your computer knows you have seen it and not to show it again, and also to store your settings.

Name
Purpose
Expires
Name:
cookiesjsr
Purpose:
When you visited this website for the first time, you were asked for your permission to use several services (including those from third parties) that require data to be saved in your browser (cookies, local storage). Your decisions about each service (allow, deny) are stored in this cookie and are reused each time you visit this website
Expires:
1 year

Website monitoring

We use New Relic to provide us with information about the performance of this site. With this information we can make changes to make the site perform more efficiently.

Name
Purpose
Expires
Name:
JSESSIONID
Purpose:
This is used by New Relic to monitor session counts for an application. The JSESSIONID cookie is associated with the New Relic domain
Expires:
When you close your browser

Content Management System

We use a Content Management System to manage content on our website which maintains a user session.

Name
Purpose
Expires
Name:
SSESS%ID%
Purpose:
This is used by our system to to link a user to a session so that information about their visit can be stored as they move from one page to the next.
Expires:
23 days

Changing your browser settings for cookies

You can adjust the settings in your web browser to determine whether sites can set cookies on your computer. If you've visited this website before, there may be previously set cookies on your computer. You can find out how to delete them from the sites listed below:

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Opt out of Google Analytics

You can opt out of Google Analytics on any desktop browser by installing the add on.