Privacy Policy & Cookies
Privacy Policy
The main East Sussex County Council website provides all of our privacy notices and policies:
Cookies on This Site
This website sometimes saves small pieces of text on your computer. We’ll refer to them as cookies on this page, but they can also use other methods similar to cookies, such as local storage. This is something that most websites do.
They improve things by:
- remembering settings, so you don’t have to re-enter them every time you visit a new page
- remembering information you’ve given, so you don’t need to keep re-entering it
- measuring how you use the website so we can make sure it meets your needs
- helping us to respond to any feedback you send us if you’ve asked us to
- tracking the effectiveness of our services, so that we can use public money more effectively.
We can’t personally identify you using the data we save in cookies. They are just used to make the website work better for our users. You can manage and/or delete these small pieces of text as you wish. This page explains further about how and where we use cookies.
Alternatively:
- To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, you can read an article on the Sophos website.
- Article 29 Data Protection Working Party explains cookies in more detail - read the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party document.
Please note, you can manage your cookie preferences for this site at any time, by visiting our Cookie Preferences page.
Cookies Set by Us
These cookies are strictly necessary in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without them, the website would not work. In law, consent isn't necessary to use these cookies.
The cookies set by this site:
- Cookie name: anon
Functionality: Determines whether the user’s username is displayed in the list of currently logged-in members.
Duration: Expires after 1 year.
Use: Functionality.
- Cookie name: cp_last_site_id
Functionality: MSM cookie indicating the last site accessed in the control panel.
Duration: Expires when the session ends.
Use: Strictly necessary.
- Cookie name: csrf_token
Functionality: A security cookie used to identify the user and prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.
Duration: Expires after 2 hours.
Use: Strictly necessary.
- Cookie name: flash
Functionality: Control panel user feedback messages, encrypted for security.
Duration: Expires after 1 day.
Use: Strictly necessary.
- Cookie name: last_activity
Functionality: Records the time of the last page load. Used in calculating active sessions.
Duration: Expires after 1 year.
Use: Strictly necessary.
- Cookie name: last_visit
Functionality: Date of the user’s last visit, based on the last_activity cookie. This can be shown as a statistic for members and used by forum and comments to show unread topics for both members and guests.
Duration: Expires after 1 year.
Use: Strictly necessary.
- Cookie name: remember
Functionality: Determines whether a user is automatically logged in upon visiting the site.
Duration: Expires after 2 weeks.
Use: Strictly necessary.
- Cookie name: sessionid
Functionality: Session ID, used to associate a logged-in user with their data.
Duration: 1-2 hours.
Use: Strictly necessary.
- Cookie name: tracker
Functionality: Contains the last 5 pages viewed, encrypted for security. Typically used for form or error message returns.
Duration: Expires when the session ends.
Use: Functionality.
- Cookie name: visitor_consents
Functionality: Saves responses to consent requests for non-logged in visitors.
Duration: Expires after 1 year.
Use: Strictly necessary.
Cookies Set by Third-Party Services
We use services from some third parties on this website. These services can set first-party cookies which they can only access when you use our website, or they can set third-party cookies that they can access when you use their services elsewhere too. Each third-party service has its own privacy policy which explains how they will use your information.
By using our website, you agree that these types of cookies can be saved on your device.
Some services on this website may use other third-party services. These will have their own privacy notice which applies in addition to the privacy notice for this website.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could further improve the website.
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. It does not collect or store your personal information (for example, your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.
We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data:
You can opt out of Google Analytics, by visiting Google's website.
YouTube
We use embedded YouTube videos on this site and YouTube is owned by Google.
We use YouTube in Privacy-Enhanced Mode to include videos in our web pages.
For more information, see the Google Privacy Policy.