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Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are requested by the Royal Borough of Greenwich website to support cooperation with your browser during a session. The names and details of these cookies are shown in tables on this page.
cookie-agreed
| Contains | An integer between 0 and 2 |
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| Expires | After 100 days |
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| Notes | Handles confirmation of essential cookies. Until this cookie is set, the site will automatically display a banner to the user asking them to accept the site's essential and other cookies. |
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cookie-agreed-categories
| Contains | A JSON-formatted list of agreed cookie categories |
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| Expires | After 100 days |
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| Notes | Used by the cookie banner to handle agreed cookies. |
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cookie-agreed-version
| Contains | A version number, e.g. "1.0.0" |
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| Expires | After 100 days |
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| Notes | Used by the cookie banner to handle agreed cookies. |
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TestCookie
| Contains | "Test" |
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| Expires | When you close your browser |
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| Notes | This cookie checks whether you have allowed cookies to be used for logging in, accessing online forms and choosing text and colour preferences. |
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PHPSESSID
| Contains | A randomly generated number |
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| Expires | When you close your browser |
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| Notes | This is used to maintain continuity as a browser moves around the site, it enables the site to keep a browser logged in or submit online forms. |
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AWSELB / AWSELBCOR
| Expires | When you close your browser |
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| Notes | Used by Amazon Web Services to implement load balancing functionality |
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COMPANY_ID
| Contains | An integer |
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| Expires | When you close your browser |
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| Notes | Used to track the portal instance that an authenticated user logged into |
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COOKIE_SUPPORT
| Contains | "true" |
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| Expires | After 1 year |
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| Notes | Used to confirm if cookies are capable of being set in this browser session |
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GUEST_LANGUAGE_ID
| Contains | "en_GB" by default, or another language code if selected |
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| Expires | After 1 year |
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| Notes | Used to track the last chosen language of the current user |
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JSESSIONID
| Contains | A string of characters representing and referencing the session |
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| Expires | When you close your browser |
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| Notes | Used by Java on the web server to keep track of a session, which can be used for manager your account among other functionality |
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Analytics cookies
These cookies are used to measure how many users visit the Royal Borough website and for how long, what pages are visited, and which links are used (for example, activated or clicked on). We interpret these measures to monitor how well online services are performing.
They contain no personal information, and are evaluated in terms of pages visited, not the people visiting them.
The following cookies are requested by this website for use by an external performance monitoring service, Google Analytics. We do not allow this provider to use or share these cookie figures, they are for our own use.
_ga
| Expires | 2 years |
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| Notes | Used to distinguish users |
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_gid
| Expires | 24 hours |
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| Notes | Used to distinguish users |
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_ga_
| Expires | 2 years |
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| Notes | Used to persist session state |
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_gac_gb_
Functionality cookies
These cookies are used to remember the preferences you set on the Royal Borough website.
The following four cookies are set to last for one hour and change the look of the website to fit preferences that you may have set.
userFontsize
| Contains | User choice of font size - small, medium, large, larger, largest |
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| Expires | After one hour |
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userFontchoice
| Contains | User choice of font - standard (Verdana), Times, Comic sans, Courier, Arial |
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| Expires | After one hour |
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userLetterspacing
| Contains | User choice of spacing - small, medium, wide |
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| Expires | After one hour |
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userColourscheme
| Contains | User choice (for example, highContrast) |
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| Expires | After one hour |
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Targeting cookies
This website does not request targeting cookies.
