Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Save you having to login every time you visit the site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Offer you free services/content (thanks to advertising)
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not
- Allowing you to add comments to our site
- Remembering your preferences such as colours, text size and layout
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called ‘analytics’ programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use: Google Analytics (external link) and Whos On (external link)
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (learn how here (external link). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software (external link).
The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/ (external link), a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool (external link).
| Domain | Name | Information |
|---|---|---|
| .fylde.gov.uk | whoson | WhosOn Lice Chat – Tracks pages viewed on www.fylde.gov.uk only |
| .fylde.gov.uk | __utma | We use Google Analytics to monitor how our customers use our website. For example to find out how many people are using the site and which content is the most popular. This information is then used to improve the user experience on our website. |
| .fylde.gov.uk | __utmb | We use Google Analytics to monitor how our customers use our website. For example to find out how many people are using the site and which content is the most popular. This information is then used to improve the user experience on our website. |
| .fylde.gov.uk | __utmc | We use Google Analytics to monitor how our customers use our website. For example to find out how many people are using the site and which content is the most popular. This information is then used to improve the user experience on our website. |
| .fylde.gov.uk | __utmz | We use Google Analytics to monitor how our customers use our website. For example to find out how many people are using the site and which content is the most popular. This information is then used to improve the user experience on our website. |
| .fylde.gov.uk | .ASPXAUTH.ModuleServices.Member | Cookies are set only when a customer logs into the website. This stores important information so that the site can authenticate them |
| .fylde.gov.uk | memberInfo | Cookies are set only when a customer logs into the website. This stores important information so that the site can authenticate them |
| .fylde.gov.uk | ASP.NET_SessionId | This is used to track the user session as they fill out the form and is used as an identifier for form filling purposes only. |
| .fylde.gov.uk | ASPSESSIONID#### | This is used to track the user session as they fill out the form and is used as an identifier for form filling purposes only. |
| .fylde.gov.uk | session_start_time | This tells the server the session has started. |
| .fylde.gov.uk | k_visit | This records number of visits on the server |
| www.fylde.gov.uk | ASP.NET_SessionId | Session – a session cookie. |
We will collect personal details appropriate to the service you require. In some areas, this may simply mean registering your name, address and email details. Other on-line forms will require more information so that all the appropriate elements of your service request will be dealt with in a timely manner.
There are various reasons that we need to collect personal data. For example, we may need to ask you for your contact details for correspondence purposes. Similarly, we may need information in order to fulfil our statutory obligations and regulatory responsibilities. Subject to your agreement we may contact you to either provide information about new services that are coming on line, or get your feedback on how well we are performing. In any event we will only ever obtain information from you that is ‘fit for purpose’ and does not constitute an invasion of your privacy.
Your rights are prescribed under the General Data Protection Regulations and the Council will apply the highest level of care to safeguard your privacy and use of your information across all our services. For more information about how we process personal data please see our Fair Processing Notice.
We are keen to ensure that we are providing our residents and local businesses with services that they need. Consequently, you may receive occasional e-mail messages from FYLDE BOROUGH COUNCIL on matters that we consider may be of interest to you, if you have provided your email address.
If you have any comments or concerns regarding this policy please contact the Council’s Legal Officer online or in writing at the following address:
Head of Legal Services
Fylde Borough Council,
Town Hall,
South Promenade,
LYTHAM ST ANNES,
FY8 1LW
