Cookies

In this section you will find information on what cookies may be set when you visit the Visit Blaby website and if necessary how to reject or delete those cookies.

How cookies work

Cookies are used in our web applications to keep track of your preferences, your logins, enabling the web site to run efficiently and collecting data on how people use our web site.

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 as well as analysing your journey through the site, to help us improve your experience as a user.

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

This is done through small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

A cookie is a small text file usually containing a random and unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web server and then stored onto your computer's hard drive. They are used to store information about you on your computer.

How to control and delete cookies

The Visit Blaby website 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.

We recommend that you allow the cookies we set by this website as they help us provide a better service. If you do not want to receive cookies from this website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options, then add our domain to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from.

Under settings, you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored. You can find more information on how to delete and control cookies at the About Cookies website.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the Visit Blaby website.

Cookies we use

This is a list of the main cookies set by the Visit Blaby website, and what each is used for:

Tracking users

We track how you use this site, but we don’t collect or store your personal information while you’re browsing.

We use Google Analytics to track:

• what pages you visit
• how long you use the site
• how you got to the site and what links you clicked on

We don’t allow Google to share this data with anyone else.

Blocking Google Analytics

Some modern browsers make it possible to block the Google Analytics cookie from collecting data. This is done by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. Browsers that offer this are Internet Explorer v8 to v11, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera.