This website, like many others, uses small items of data in your browser known as 'Cookies' to collect information about how your use this site.
Cookies are used to:
- measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs
- remember the notifications you’ve seen so that we don’t show them to you again
Wirralview.com cookies aren’t used to identify you personally.
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How cookies are used on wirralview.com
Measuring website usage (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use wirralview.com. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements, for example improving site search.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit on wirralview.com
- how long you spend on each wirralview.com page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We don’t collect or store your personal information, for example your name or address, so this information can’t be used to identify you.
Google Analytics sets the following cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | This helps us count how many people visit wirralview.com by tracking if you’ve visited before | 2 years |
| _gat | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | 10 minutes |
Measuring website usage (Hotjar)
We use Hotjar to collect information and data on how people use this website. This helps to understand how people use the site and how we can make it work better for them.
Hotjar records information on how a user moves around the site, how they find information and how they complete tasks. The information is collected anonymously and cannot be used to identify any specific person.
Drupal (content management system)
Drupal, the system we use to manage content on our website, stores the following cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| ROUTEID | Use by the servers to help manage the load between them. | at end of session |
| has_js | Used to check that your browser has javascript turned on, Without this some functionality of the site will be lost. | at end of session |
Events on wirralview.com (Tockify)
We use a third party web application called Tockify to list events taking place in Wirral. This uses its own versions of the Google Analytics cookies, listed above and has an additional cookie to keep track of its own session state:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | This helps count how many people visit the Tockify calendar by tracking if you’ve visited before | 2 years |
| _gat | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | 10 minutes |
| JSESSIONID | Used to keep track of the session state whilst using the site | at end of session |