Cookies information

A cookie is string of text information that is placed on your computer via your web browser. It can store helpful information for the site owners that help them understand your use of a website.

What cookies are used on this site uses and why

Essential cookies

Cookie preference

CookieControl - this cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on www.cheshireeast.gov.uk. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.

CeCe Chatbot

The CeCe chatbot sets 3 cookies:

icsai.smarthub.cache.$bot-token - this is a token used to communicate with the assistant
customer.ai-flex-chat-tnc-acceptance - this indicates that the terms and conditions have been accepted
icsai.smarthub,cache.$FlexAnonAuthProviderflex-anon - this is an anonymous token used to differentiate users

Analytics cookies

Google Analytics

Like many websites, we use Google Analytics to help us to identify the way in which our website is used so we can try to improve it. The following cookies are set by Google Analytics:

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These are all used to collect non-personal information about how visitors use our site in terms of the numbers of visitors, the pages that they visit and the website they came from. Find out more about Google Analytics cookies.

Marketing cookies

Facebook feed

We would like to embed a Facebook feed on some pages. In return, Facebook use marketing cookies to track visitors across websites.

_fbp - used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers

YouTube videos

We have embedded privacy-enhanced YouTube videos on the site. Privacy-enhanced mode allows us to embed YouTube videos without using cookies that track viewing behaviour. This means that when loading the page, no activity is collected to personalise the viewing experience. If a viewer clicks or taps to play the video, the following cookies are enabled:

NID - DoubleClick set this cookie (owned by Google)to help to build your interested profile and also to show you related ads on different sites

1P_JAR - This cookie possesses information about how an end-user uses the website and also about the advertising that an end-user can see before visiting the said website.

How to change cookie settings

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, then selecting close. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.

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