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Use of cookies by North Devon Council

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Use of cookies by North Devon Council
Cookie Name Purpose
Cookie preference

CookieControl

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

Universal Analytics (Google)

_ga
_gali
_gat
_gid

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data

YouTube cookies

GEO*
PREF*
VSC*
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE*
remote_sid*
recently_watched_video_id_list*
use_hitbox*

We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.

GEO - * Expires At End Of Session
PREF - * Expires after eight months
VSC - * expires at the end of your session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE - *expires after eight months
remote_sid - * expires at the end of your sessionrecently_watched_video_id_list - * Expires At End Of Session
use_hitbox - * Expires At End Of Session

Openspace - Ordnance Survey – Mapping

BIGipServerprod_as101202_http_pool

Expires: 1 hour

Payments website

ASPSESSIONIDACSDTBTT

Expires: when user exits browser

Public registers

ASP.NET_SessionId
MVMSession

Expires: when user exits browser

Licensing website

JSESSIONID

Expires: when user exits browser

Twitter

guest_id
original_referer
_twitter_sess
k*

Expires: when user exits browser


* expires after 7 days

GovDelivery

t

expires after 100 years

Cookies in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Voice

Use of cookies by Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Voice
Cookie name Description Lifetime
AADNonce.forms Unique identifier of one authentication session to prevent replay. Session
DcLcid Saves language preference. 90 days
MS0 Stores the session identification cookie. 90 days
MSFPC Critical service cookie to analyze service usage anonymously and aggregated for statistical purpose. 1 year
MUID Used to identify different anonymous users. Critical service cookie to analyze service usage anonymously and aggregated for statistical purpose. 1 year
_RequestVerificationToken Used by the antiforgery system. Session
AADAuth.forms Azure Active Directory authentication token. 90 days
AADAuthCode.forms An authentication code used to redeem Azure Active Directory authentication token. 90 days
AADSID.forms Azure Active Directory authentication session ID. 90 days
AADState.forms Authentication state to indicate whether user is authenticated. 90 days

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