When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device as well as analysing your journey through the site, to help us improve your experience as a user.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using online services, to help us improve the website
- letting you change text size, you can use the icons at the top of every web page to change the size of the text. You can also increase the text size and view a high visibility colour scheme
This is done through small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
A cookie is a small text file usually containing a random and unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web server and then stored onto your computer's hard drive. They are used to store information about you on your computer.
Cookies we use
We use Google Analytics and Site Analyze to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure the site is meeting our users' needs and to understand how we could make improvements to the sites user experience.
Google Analytics and Site Analyze store information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information can't be used to identify who you are. We do not allow Google to use or share our Analytics data.
Google Analytics
The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:
Google Analytics Cookies
| Cookie Name |
Expires |
Path |
Secure |
Domain |
| __utma |
immediately |
/ |
No |
.wigan.gov.uk |
| __utmb |
30 minutes |
/ |
No |
.wigan.gov.uk |
| __utmc |
End of session |
/ |
No |
.wigan.gov.uk |
| __utmz |
6 months |
/ |
No |
.wigan.gov.uk |
SiteAnalyze Analytics
The following cookies are set by SiteAnalyze
Site Analyze Website Cookies
| Cookie Name |
Expires |
Path |
Secure |
Domain |
| nmstat |
1000 days |
/ |
No |
.siteimprove.com |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
End of session |
/ |
No |
.siteimprove.com |
Wigan MBC Cookies
We use these cookies to keep track of user preferences and enable the web site to work efficently
Wigan Website Cookies
| Cookie Name |
Expires |
Path |
Secure |
Domain |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
At end of session |
/ |
No |
.wigan.gov.uk |
| UserPreferences |
One calendar month |
/ |
No |
.wigan.gov.uk |
The Website is written in a web framework called ASP.NET. The ASPNET SessionID cookie is used to keep track of the session while you browse the web site. It can't be used to identify you.
UserPreferences keeps track of how you view the site. I keeps a track of whether you view the site in High Contrast or in Large Extra Large or Normal text size.
AddThis Cookies
AddThis Cookies
| Cookie Name |
Expires |
Path |
Secure |
Domain |
| bt |
2 Years |
/ |
No |
.addthis.com |
| di |
2 Years |
/ |
No |
.addthis.com |
| dt |
1 Month |
/ |
No |
.addthis.com |
| loc |
6 weeks |
/ |
No |
.addthis.com |
| psc |
2 Years |
/ |
No |
.addthis.com |
| ssc |
22 months |
/ |
No |
.addthis.com |
| uid |
2 Years |
/ |
No |
.addthis.com |
| uit |
1 day |
/ |
No |
.addthis.com |
| uvc |
2 Years |
/ |
No |
.addthis.com |
These cookies enable the ShareThis site to work. ShareThis is a site that enables you to share links with social networking sites and other link sharing sites such as Rededdit and Stumbleupon
YouTube cookies
Youtube Cookies
| Cookie Name |
Expires |
Path |
Secure |
Domain |
| HSID |
20 Years |
/ |
No |
.youtube.com |
| LOGIN_INFO |
20 Years |
/ |
No |
.youtube.com |
| PREF |
20 Years |
/ |
No |
.youtube.com |
| SID |
20 Years |
/ |
No |
.youtube.com |
| SSID |
20 Years |
/ |
No |
.youtube.com |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
6 months |
/ |
No |
.youtube.com |
| use_hitbox |
At End Of Session |
/ |
No |
.youtube.com |
We use YouTube cookies to embed streaming video on our web site. YouTube inserts these cookies for keeping tracking of visitors, user preferences and collecting statistics about views. They can't be used to identify you. See Google privacy policy (External link) for information.
Further Information
For further information on how cookies work visit Wikipedia cookies (External link)
To see how to control cookies in your browser visit the following website: All about cookies (External link).
