Cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and
reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this
sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your
device. These include small files known as cookies. They are not to
be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you
through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have
to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and
password so you don't need to do it for every web page
requested
- measuring how many people are using online services, to help us
improve the website.
Click on the tabs to see a list of cookies used on our website,
grouped by what they do.
Measuring traffic
Cookies for improving service by measuring
traffic
Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the
number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This to
ensure that the service is available when you want it and fast.
Name: _utma
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years
Name: _utmb
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 30 minutes
Name: _utmc
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser
Name: _utmz
Typical content: randomly generated number info on how the site
was reached (e.g. directly or via a link, organic search or paid
search)
Expires: 6 months
Email
Cookies for storing your email address and
preferences
We use various cookies to store any details you enter, so that
you (or your preferences) are remembered the next time you visit
the site.
Name: fbk_email
Typical content: Your email address if you select 'Remember me on
this computer' on any feedback page
Expires: 1 year
Name: U
Typical content: Unique identifier of property when selected on My
Brent
Expires: 1 year
Name: fsdirpc
Typical content: Your postcode, if entered on the Family
information search
Expires: About 1 year
Name: fsdirtopcat
Typical content: A top level category selected on the Family
information search
Expires: About 1 year
Name: fsdirselect
Typical content: A sub-category selected on the Family information
search
Expires: About 1 year
Name: fsdirselectC
Typical content: A sub-category selected on the Childcare by
location search
Expires: About 1 year
Name: FV
Typical content: URL of a page if added as a favourite on My
Brent
Expires: 1 year
Name: JSESSIONID
Typical content: Randomly generated alphanumeric string used to
track a series of requests from the same user across some period of
time on our online forms.
Expires: when user exits browser
Third parties
Cookies from third party systems
We use various third party systems to host content on our site,
some of these systems use cookies to improve user
experience
Name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Typical content: Randomly generated alphanumeric string used to
build navigation for users in our democracy section
Expires: when user exits browser
Name of system: ModernGov
Name: ASPSESSIONIDSSDBSBTB
Typical content: Randomly generated letter string from our jobs
listing
Expires: when user exits browser
Name of system: i-Grasp
Name: fesettings%5FsecurityString
Typical content: Randomly generated alphanumeric string from our
jobs listing
Expires: when user exits browser
Name of system: i-Grasp
Name: viewpoint
Typical content: Randomly generated alphanumeric string which
holds a user's library history on the online catalogue
Expires: when users exits browser
Name of system: Axiell ViewPoint
Name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Typical content: Randomly generated alphanumeric string used to
build navigation for users in the library's online catalogue
Expires: when user exits browser
Name of system: Axiell ViewPoint
