Jo Coles - York and North Yorkshire Deputy Mayor for Policing, Fire and Crime

Jo Coles - North Yorkshire Deputy Mayor for Policing, Fire and Crime

Details about cookies on northyorkshire-pfcc.gov.uk

The Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site. Find out more about the cookies we use, what they’re for and when they expire.

Cookies that measure website use (statistics)

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how you use northyorkshire-pfcc.gov.uk. You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can read Google’s overview of data practices within Google Analytics. Our Privacy Notice has more information about the data we collect using Google Analytics cookies and information we receive from other digital services. We use the following Google Analytics cookies on northyorkshire-pfcc.gov.uk:

Name
Purpose
Expires
_ga_<unique id>
These help us count how many people visit northyorkshire-pfcc.gov.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before
1 year
_ga, _gid, _gat
These help us count how many people visit northyorkshire-pfcc.gov.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before
2 years

Crazy Egg

Crazy Egg’s uses cookies to track how users interact with the site using heat maps to show elements that users engage with the most as well as monitoring traffic:

Name
Purpose
Expires
ce_*
Sets up users heat map tracking on first site visit.
Session
_ce_
Manages crazy egg API functionality to track user inputs as well as checking returning visitors.
Session

SearchWP

SearchWP is used by our site search engine “SearchWP” to track common search terms and help improve how we optimise the site.

Name
Purpose
Expires
swpext86386
This cookie is used by SearchWP Metrics to track clicks within the search results.
1 week

Cookies set by other websites (marketing)

Some of our pages may contain content from other sites, like YouTube or Vimeo, which may set their own cookies. These sites are sometimes called ‘third party’ services. This tells us how many people are seeing the content and whether it’s useful.

In addition, if you share a link to an Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner page, the service you share it on (for example, Facebook) may set a cookie. We have no control over cookies set on other websites – you can turn them off, but not through us.

YouTube videos

We use YouTube to show videos on some northyorkshire-pfcc.gov.uk pages. YouTube sets cookies when you visit one of these pages.

Name
Purpose
Expires
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Used by YouTube to count the views of embedded videos and provide bandwidth usage statistics.
6 months
GPS
Stores location data of the current user based on geographical GPS location.
session
YSC
Used by YouTube to prevent spam, fraud and abuse. The YSC cookie ensured that requests to YouTube and Google are being made by the user, and not by other sites.
session
PREF
YouTube uses the ‘PREF’ cookie to store information such as your preferred page configuration and playback preferences like explicit autoplay choices, shuffle content, and player size. For YouTube Music, these preferences include volume, repeat mode, and autoplay.
8 months

Google Maps

We use Google maps to show our location. Google sets the following cookies when you visit a page which contains a map.

Name
Purpose
Expires
khcookie, NID, SNID and PREF
Set and used by Google Maps to provide interactive location maps.
24 months
APISID, HSID, NID, PREF, SSID, SID, SAPISID
Set and used by Google Site Search, Google Maps and other Google products to provide functionality relating to Google specific services
24 months

Strictly necessary cookies (functional)

Cookies message

You may see a banner when you visit northyorkshire-pfcc.gov.uk  inviting you to accept cookies or review your settings. We’ll set cookies so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and not to show it again, and also to store your settings.

Name
Purpose
Expires
CookieControl
Used by the Civic Cookie Control consent system to store the accepted cookie policy ID.
1 year

Google reCAPTCHA cookies

In some limited circumstances, we may use Google reCAPTCHA to help us detect fraudulent activity. We also use Google reCAPTCHA for spam prevention. Some of the data collected by reCAPTCHA cookies is forwarded to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service.

Name
Purpose
Expires
rc::c
We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software.
session
rc::b
We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software.
session
rc::a
We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software.
persistent

Other essential cookies

Essential cookies keep your information secure while you use our website. We do not need to ask permission to use them.

Name
Purpose
Expires
wpe-auth
Used to store logged in user status
session
wp_lang
Used by WordPress to store the users language preferences
session
wp_data_user_*
Used by WordPress to provide administrative functionality
various
wfwaf-authcookie-*
Used to check user capabilities when logging in, and to manage access across the website.
1 day
wf_loginalerted_*
Used to help site administrators know whether there has been a user login from a new device.
persistent
wfls-remembered-*
Used by MFA users when logging in, this cookie allows them to log in with the same browser without requiring MFA each time.
1 month