Privacy Policy & Cookies
Privacy Policy
All privacy policies and notices are on the main East Sussex County Council website:
Cookies on This Site
This website sometimes saves small pieces of text on your computer. We refer to them as cookies on this page. They can also use other similar methods 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 identify you using the data we save in cookies. They are 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.
You can manage your cookie preferences for this site at any time. Find out more by visiting our Cookie Preferences page.
You can learn more about cookies on the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) website:
Cookies Set by Us
These cookies are necessary 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 us are:
- Name: exp_last_activity
- Purpose: Records the time of the last page load. Used in calculating active sessions.
- Expires: 360 days.
- Name: exp_csrf_token
- Purpose: A security cookie. Used to identify the user and prevent Cross Site Request Forgery attacks.
- Expires: 2 hours.
- Name: exp_last_visit
- Purpose: Date of the user’s last visit. This is based on the last_activity cookie. Can be shown as a statistic for members and used by forum and comments to show unread topics for both members and guests.
- Expires: 360 days.
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. They can also set third-party cookies that they can access when you use their services elsewhere too. Each third-party service has its own privacy policy. This will explain 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. This applies in addition to the privacy notice for this website.
YouTube
We use embedded YouTube videos on this site. Google owns YouTube.
We use YouTube in Privacy-Enhanced Mode to include videos in our web pages.
For more information, please visit Google:
Matomo
East Sussex County Council use Matomo for site analytics. Matomo is a privacy-based service that doesn’t use cookies.