Cookies

When someone visits www.stroud.gov.uk we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone.

Like many other websites, we use cookies. Cookies can help a website to personalise your visit. A cookie is a small piece of text which can be stored on your computer, smartphone or other devices you use to browse the web. Cookies have many uses, but fundamentally they are used to store information about you on your computer. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the lifetime of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you. However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our website, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings.

You can stop cookies being downloaded on to your computer by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this and other websites.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the Stroud District Council website from working to its full functionality. For further details view the table below for cookie descriptions and how they are used.

Cookies in use on this site

Stroud District Council uses the following cookies to ensure our website provides you with an enhanced customer experience:

Name	Cookie	Purpose	Expires
Local land charges register	lcomap	The local land charges register will generate a cookie to use with Google Maps. This is an essential cookie in order for the Land Charges search to work accurately. Only Map details are recorded (Latitude, Longitude, Zoom and Maptype). No personal information or Computer information (such as IP address) is recorded.	5 days
Site Improve	nmstat siteimproveses	Site Improve uses cookies in order to provide meaningful reports about site visitors. nmstat is used to help record your usage of the site.	No expiry
My house	myHouse	This cookie is used in conjunction with My house. It holds information of the address you selected so that any revisits to the webpage can automatically take you to that address, selecting another address will update the cookie.	1 month
Email alerts	sdcAlerts	This is a third party cookie set by Twitter and used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.	1 day or immediately on logout
Forms anti forgery	__RequestVerificationToken __RequestVerificationToken_L2FwcHM1	Anti-forgery tokens to prevent Cross-site request forgery. It guarantees that the poster is the one who gets the form.	when you close your browser
Cookie consent	sdcCookieConsent	This will prevent the cookie consent banner from appearing	1 year
ASP.Net session	ASP.NET_SessionId	Used by some areas of the website such as the garden waste & bulky collection booking pages, to keep track of your booking progress.	when you close your browser
Google Analytics	_ga	The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.	1 year 1 month 4 days
Google Analytics	_ga_*	Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.	1 year 1 month 4 days
Civic UK	CookieControl	This cookie is set by the Civic UK Cookie Control and is used to remember a user’s choice of cookies on the website.	3 months
Google Analytics	NID	NID cookie, set by Google, is used for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to mute unwanted ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads.	6 months