Cookie Policy

Cookies: information collection and use

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.  For more information about how to this, and more information about Cookies in general, please see www.aboutcookies.org/.

York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, as the data collector, may collect some information from visitors to this site. This information is used only to respond to enquiries and to monitor site usage. We will not pass on these details to third parties or use them for any other purposes unless instructed by you to do so.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

If any changes are made to our privacy policy, these changes will be posted on our homepage.

York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority complies with the requirements of GDPR.

What do we use cookies for?

We use cookies so that:

• We can distinguish you from other users of our website and provide a good experience
• We can remember the information you’ve provided us with while on our website, so you don’t have to keep re-entering the information whenever you visit a new page
• We can look at how you use our website so that we can improve it for other users.

We do not use cookies to:

• Monitor your usage of other websites (privacy intrusive cookies)
• collect any personal information about you (without your express permission);
• collect any sensitive information;
• pass data to any advertising networks;
• pass personal data to third parties.

What cookie types do we use?

Cookie types and expiry:

• Session cookies – these are temporary and are erased when you close your browser at the end of your visit, or if you delete them earlier. The next time you visit our website we will not recognise you and will treat you as a completely new visitor.
• Persistent cookies – these remain on your hard drive until you erase them or they expire, this is after 12 months.

We may use one or more of the following kinds of cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies.  These cookies are required for the operation of our website.  This can include cookies that will enable you to log into a secure area of our website, for example a staff, area.  Without these the website will not work as designed. These cookies do not require consent.

Functionality cookies.  These cookies require consent. They are used to recognise you when you return to our website.  The content is then personalised to you and can greet you by name (once in the secure area) or remember preferences that you may set.

Analytical/performance cookies.  These cookies require consent. They allow us to count and recognise the number of visitors to our site.  It also allows us to see when and how visitors navigate our website.  Using these cookies helps us improve our website and make popular searched items easier to find.  We also use the following widget(s) for this purpose:

How do we obtain consent for the use of cookies?

When you first visit our sites using a new browser, or if you visit in private browsing mode, we will provide you with a cookies permission banner seeking your consent to use of cookies as required by law.

How do I erase or opt out of the use of cookies?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time through our cookie banner, but please be aware that opting out of cookies may affect your user experience on our website.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Apple Safari

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

You can also use specialist software that protects against malicious cookies. These applications can be customised to let you change the content of the cookies you want to receive or will allow to be stored on your device.

The cookies used on this website are listed below.