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 below.
rbg_essential_cookies
Contains
"true"
Expires
After one year
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.
TestCookie
Contains
"Test"
Expires
When you close your browser
Notes
This cookie checks whether you have allowed cookies to be used for logging in, accessing online forms and choosing text and colour preferences.
PHPSESSID
Contains
A randomly generated number
Expires
When you close your browser
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.
AWSELB / AWSELBCOR
Expires
When you close your browser
Notes
Used by Amazon Web Services to implement load balancing functionality
COMPANY_ID
Contains
An integer
Expires
When you close your browser
Notes
Used to track the portal instance that an authenticated user logged into
COOKIE_SUPPORT
Contains
"true"
Expires
After 1 year
Notes
Used to confirm if cookies are capable of being set in this browser session
GUEST_LANGUAGE_ID
Contains
"en_GB" by default, or another language code if selected
Expires
After 1 year
Notes
Used to track the last chosen language of the current user
JSESSIONID
Contains
A string of characters representing and referencing the session
Expires
When you close your browser
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
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.
rbg_analytics_cookies
Contains
"true"
Expires
After one year
Notes
If this cookie has been set (caused by the user accepting analytics cookies) the site's analytics scripts will be loaded.
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
Notes
Used to distinguish users.
_gid
Expires
24 hours
Notes
Used to distinguish users.
_ga_
Expires
2 years
Notes
Used to persist session state.
_gac_gb_
Expires
90 days
Notes
Contains campaign related information. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. Learn more.
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
Expires
After one hour
userFontchoice
Contains
User choice of font - standard (Verdana), Times, Comic sans, Courier, Arial