Cookies
This page explains our use of cookies, how to disable them and about your consent for us to use them.
Most websites use cookies to improve their service. Cookies collect data about your visit.
When you add things to an online shopping basket, click around and a site and return to your basket, it is cookies that are remembering what you put in there. It is a cookie that remembers you set Horley as your location for the weather forecast on the BBC site.
We want you to know what cookies we use on this site
Website statistics
We use cookies to tell us about the traffic to our site. Such as how many pages users look at during a visit and how many different visitors we’ve had.
Website in general
We use Microsoft's active server page technology, which in order to work sets a session cookie. The same applies to some tools like the planning application search which are JavaServer Pages. With both of these, when the visitor leaves the cookie expires. They don't store any personal information.
E-forms
We use different types of e-forms on the site such as report a missed bin or to report fraud. They don't store any personal information in cookies. They use only what is necessary to get the user through the process of filling in the form (i.e. they remember what you've typed from page to page on the form).
They also use cookies to improve the function of the forms such as directing requests to the right server.
Borough e-news usage reports
Only Borough e-news subscribers are affected by this. It uses temporary cookies that only last while the user is viewing the e-newsletter. These just give us usage information like how many people opened it and clicked back to the main site
You can disable them
You can turn cookies off by changing your browser settings. Go to your browser's help section to see how to do this. On Internet Explorer for example, you would just enable 'InPrivate Browsing'.
More information about how to enable or disable cookies is available on the About Cookies website.
Your consent
If you continue to use our site having read this information, then we will infer that you consent to us using cookies.
How government sites use cookies in general
How government websites use cookies (Gov.uk website) – includes a video explanation.
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Last updated : 28/11/2012
