Privacy and cookies

Your privacy

Any personal information collected via this website is used only to respond to enquiries. No personal information is disclosed to third parties (unless specifically stated otherwise) and is held under the provisions of the Data Protection Act.

This site is operated by Surrey County Council, so please see our corporate privacy notice and individual privacy notices for further information.

Analytics

We use third-party web analytics tools to help us monitor how people use this website. Your IP address will be collected for the purpose of distinguishing between internal (staff) and external (public) usage. We do not associate your IP address with anything that is personally identifiable, so your use of this website will remain anonymous to us. To disable the collection of anonymous analytics data you can enable the "Do Not Track" setting in your browser.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your device so that a website can remember information about your visit. A cookie will typically contain the name of the website that create it, a time period for which it is valid, and a value, which is often a randomly generated and unique number.

How we use cookies

Cookies used on this website do not store any personal data and are not used to gather personal information.

We use cookies for a variety of important reasons, for example:

  • To collect statistics about your use of our website.
  • To ensure a persistent connection with the same web server in the load balancing pool.

Cookies set by our website

NamePurposeExpiresOrganisation
SQ_SYSTEM_SESSION Session state End of session Surrey County Council
_ga Analytics 02 years Google
_gid Analytics 24 hours Google
_gat Analytics 01 minute Google
nlbi_[ID] Visitor recognition End of session Incapsula
incap_ses_[ID] Visitor recognition End of session Incapsula
visid_incap_[ID] Visitor recognition 01 year Incapsula

Third party cookies

Some third party services embedded within this website will set their own cookies. These are known as third party cookies because they are not set by our website. We have no control over the cookies set by these services.

How to enable or disable 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 disable our cookies then you may not be able to access certain parts of our website. More information about cookies is available on the Information Commissioner's Office website.