Details about cookies on healthandcareleeds.org

Leeds Health and Care Partnership puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site. Find out more about the cookies we use, what they’re for and when they expire.

Cookies that measure website use (statistics)

We use Google Analytics and SearchWP cookies to measure how you use our website. These cookies collect information about:

  • how you got to the site
  • the pages you visit and how long you spend on each page
  • what you click on while you’re visiting the site

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how you use healthandcareleeds.org. You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can read Google’s overview of data practices within Google Analytics. Our Privacy Notice has more information about the data we collect using Google Analytics cookies and information we receive from other digital services. We use the following Google Analytics cookies on healthandcareleeds.org:

Name Purpose Category Expires
_ga_<unique id> Used by Google Analytics to store and count page views and tracking if you have visited before. Statistics 1 year
_ga, _gid,_gat Used by Google Analytics to store and count page views and tracking if you have visited before. Statistics 2 years

 

Cookies set by other websites (marketing)

Some of our pages may contain content from other sites, like YouTube or Vimeo, which may set their own cookies. These sites are sometimes called ‘third party’ services. This tells us how many people are seeing the content and whether it’s useful.

In addition, if you share a link to an healthandcareleeds.org page, the service you share it on (for example, Facebook) may set a cookie. We have no control over cookies set on other websites – you can turn them off, but not through us.

YouTube and Vimeo videos

We use YouTube or Vimeo to show videos on some healthandcareleeds.org pages. Cookies are set when you visit one of these pages.

Name Purpose Category Expires
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Used by YouTube to count the views of embedded videos and provide bandwidth usage statistics. Marketing 6 months
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA Used by YouTube to store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. Marketing 6 months
GPS Stores location data of the current user based on geographical GPS location. Marketing Per session
YSC Used by YouTube to prevent spam, fraud and abuse. The YSC cookie ensured that requests to YouTube and Google are being made by the user, and not by other sites. Marketing Per session
PREF YouTube uses the ‘PREF’ cookie to store information such as your preferred page configuration and playback preferences like explicit autoplay choices, shuffle content, and player size. For YouTube Music, these preferences include volume, repeat mode, and autoplay. Marketing 8 months
AEC Used by Google to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to help ensure advertisers are not incorrectly charged for fraudulent or otherwise invalid impressions or interactions with ads, and that YouTube creators in the YouTube Partner Program are remunerated fairly. Marketing 6 months
NID Used by Google to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferences. Marketing 6 months
DV Used by Google to provide ad delivery or retargeting. Marketing 1 day
SOCS Used by Google to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices. Marketing 13 months
__Secure-ENID Used by Google to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language etc. Marketing 13 months
__Secure-YEC Used by Google to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to help ensure advertisers are not incorrectly charged for fraudulent or otherwise invalid impressions or interactions with ads, and that YouTube creators in the YouTube Partner Program are remunerated fairly Marketing 13 months
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN Used by YouTube to manage feature rollout and experimentation Marketing 6 months
__utm_player Used by embedded Vimeo videos to monitor analytical data regarding the player performance. Marketing 10 minutes
vuid Used by Vimeo to store a user’s usage history with relation to Vimeo embedded videos played by the user on this website. Marketing 2 years

 

Strictly necessary cookies (functional)

Cookies message

You may see a banner when you visit healthandcareleeds.org inviting you to accept cookies or review your settings. We’ll set cookies so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and not to show it again, and also to store your settings.

Name
Purpose
Category
Expires
CookieControl
Used by the Civic Cookie Control consent system to store the accepted cookie policy ID.
Functional
1 year

 

Google reCAPTCHA cookies

In some limited circumstances, we may use Google reCAPTHCA to help us detect fraudulent activity. We also use Google reCAPTCHA for spam prevention. Some of the data collected by reCAPTCHA cookies is forwarded to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service.

Name Purpose Category Expires
rc::c Used by Google reCAPTCHA to read and filter requests from bots. We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software. Some of the data collected by reCAPTCHA cookies is forwarded to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service. Functional Per session
rc::b Used by Google reCAPTCHA to read and filter requests from bots. We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software. Some of the data collected by reCAPTCHA cookies is forwarded to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service. Functional Per session
rc::a Used by Google reCAPTCHA to read and filter requests from bots. We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software. Some of the data collected by reCAPTCHA cookies is forwarded to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service. Functional Persistent
_grecaptcha Used by Google reCAPTCHA to read and filter requests from bots. We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software. Some of the data collected by reCAPTCHA cookies is forwarded to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service. Functional 6 months

 

Other essential cookies

Essential cookies keep your information secure while you use our website. We do not need to ask permission to use them.

Name Purpose Category Expires
wpe-auth Used to store user status (strictly for logged in users). Functional Per session
wp_lang Used by WordPress to store the user’s language preferences. Functional Per session
wp_data_user_* Used by WordPress to provide administrative functionality Functional 15 days
wordpress_logged_in_* Used by WordPress to store logged in users. Functional Persistent
wordpress_test_cookie Used on sites built with WordPress. Tests whether or not the browser has cookies enabled. Functional Per session
wordpress_sec_* Used by WordPress to provide protection against hackers and store account details. Functional 15 days
wordpress_settings_* Used by WordPress to store user preferences. Functional 1 year
__cf_bm Used by Cloudflare – strictly necessary to provide the services requested by users Functional 30 minutes
_cfuvid Used by Cloudflare – strictly necessary to provide the services requested by users. Functional Per session
googtrans Used by google to store translate language settings. Functional Per session

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