Use of cookies
A cookie is a small piece of text stored on your computer, phone or whatever you use to surf the Internet. Cookies have many uses, but fundamentally they are used to store information about your visit to our website.
We encourage you to accept the cookies our website uses as they help us to improve the user experience for you and many others.
We use two types of cookies on our website:
- Session cookies - These are deleted after each visit
- Persistent cookies - These remain in place after your visit
How to disable cookies
If you do not want to receive cookies from this website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options:
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If you set your browser to refuse cookies, please be aware that there may be functionality on this and other websites that may not work.
Cookies in use on our website
We use the following cookies on our website:
| Cookie | Name | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | west-norfolk.gov.uk | Session |
This cookie is a reference to a unique session ID set by our website code (PHP) for a current browsing session. The session is ended when your browser is closed. The cookie itself contains no personal information. |
| nmstat | SiteImprove | Persistent |
This cookie is used to help record the visitor’s use of the website. It is used to collect statistics about site usage such as when the visitor last visited the site. This information is then used to improve the user experience on the website. The cookie is set to expire 1,000 days after your last visit. The cookie itself contains no personal information. |
| Recite_Session | Recite Me | Persistent |
This cookie controls the functionality of Recite Me, a screen reading plugin we use to add speech, reading and translation support to our website. It remembers things like where the toolbar is, if it is loaded and your speech and colour settings. Without this, you will not be able to use the functionality offered by Recite Me effectively, if at all. The cookie expires after two years. The cookie itself contains no personal information. |
| Recite.Persist | Recite Me | Persistent |
This cookie enables Recite Me across all pages |
| PREF VSC* VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE remote_sid* |
YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode) |
Persistent & |
Unique identifier given to allow tracking of YouTube video views. The 'PREF' and 'VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE' cookies expire after eight months. * The 'VSC' and 'remote_sid' cookies expire at the end of your session. These cookies contain no personal information and YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode will not store personally identifiable cookie information. |
| SNID | Persistent |
Unique identifier given to allow tracking of Google Map views. The cookie itself contains no personal information. |
|
| JSESSIONID | PublicAccess | Session |
This allows you to search all planning applications in the borough. Without this cookie the planning search facility would not function correctly. The cookie itself contains no personal information. |
| bcklwn_store | west-norfolk.gov.uk | Persistent |
This stores a unique key which combined with the bcklwn_uprn cookie allows us to present tailored information based upon your set location in Find MyNearest. The cookie expires after 90 days. |
| bcklwn_uprn | west-norfolk.gov.uk | Persistent |
This stores the unique property reference number (UPRN) for the location set using Find MyNearest. The cookie expires after 90 days. |
| bcklwn_asi | west-norfolk.gov.uk | Persistent |
Used to determine whether you have set “Remember my choice” within track my requests options page. The cookie itself contains no personal information. |
| acceptCookies | west-norfolk.gov.uk | Persistent |
Set if your browser is accepting cookies. The cookie itself contains no personal information. |
| TestCookie | west-norfolk.gov.uk | Session |
Used to determine whether your browser has the ability to store cookies. The cookie itself contains no personal information. |