Cookies currently being used
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet or smart TV’s when you access a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, by allowing the website to recognise your device and store information about past actions or preferences. An example could be internet banking, where your device may recognise and populate certain previously entered login details previously entered.
The Council website uses cookies in order to provide a better service and experience to the citizens of Birmingham and other website users.
There are two kinds of cookies
- session cookies which are short-term and auto-delete after a few minutes or when you close your browser; and
- persistent cookies set by the website and stored for a longer period of time, usually used to store commonly entered information on forms (such as your name, address, and telephone number). They also store information about your browsing habits across multiple sites, usually used to allow advertisers and social network site operators to target advertising at you.
The council uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website and help us create a more useful and easy to use site. The data collected is completely anonymous and does not store any personal details. The information is used to analyse how visitors make use of our website and allows us to gather statistical information such as website activity, visitor numbers, popular pages and customer journey through the website.
If you do not wish to allow use of cookies for our website, you can block them using your browser preferences (for example by amending your cookie settings on google settings).
You can choose to opt out of Google Analytics cookies collecting any data on you. If you disable these cookies you will still be able to use the website.
Find out more about cookies.
Cookies currently being set
On www.hrforschools.org.uk:
- _ga - used to distinguish users. Expires after two years.
- _gid - used to distinguish users. Expires after one day.
- CookieControl - used to store a user's choice about cookies on our website. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie. Expires after three months.
- PHPSESSID - used to maintain your user session. Expires when user closes their browser.
- Jadu_cc – used to keep you logged in to the website. Expires when user closes their browser
On account.hrforschools.org.uk:
- _gid - used to distinguish users. Expires after one day.
- _ga - used to distinguish users. Expires after two years.
- CookieControl - used to store a user's choice about cookies on our website. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie. Expires after three months.
- PHPSESSID - used to maintain your user session. Expires when user closes their browser.
- Jadu_cc – used to keep you logged in to the website. Expires when user closes their browser