Cookies and New Forest District Council
(Film:New Forest)
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that websites save to your computer. They are used to make the site work better for you, and to help the website owner understand how people use the website.
These cookies aren’t used to identify you personally but they can remember activities and preferences chosen by you and your browser. You can manage cookies by controlling which cookies are saved or by deleting them, if you wish (please see ‘Managing your cookies’ at the bottom of this page).
New Forest District Council uses cookies to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you are not offered the same service more than intended
- measuring how many people are using services, to improve service delivery
- analysing data to help understand how our online services are used so we can improve them
We have links to social networking websites (eg Facebook and Twitter). These websites may place cookies on your computer.
For more information please see Bookmark and Share Toolbar Privacy and Data Practices.
New Forest District Councils use of cookies
Important information about this list of cookies
This list is currently a work in progress. It will be updated if a service is added which uses cookies.
Cookies for measuring use of services
By understanding how people use the website, New Forest District Council can improve the information provided. New Forest use a number of different methods of gathering this data, including services provided by other companies.
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expires |
| civicCookieControl | This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on filmnewforest.com. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie. | 60 days |
| popUpCookie | We have a pop up appearing on the Film New Forest website, if users select find out more or dismiss the cookie will persist for 60 days so they do not see the pop up again in that time. If they select not now the cookie will expire after five days. | 5 days |
Google Analytics
| Cookie name | Purpose | Expires |
| _utma | used to determine unique visitors to the site | 2 years |
| _utmb | calculates the average length of time users spend on the site (in conjunction with _utmc) | 30 minutes |
| _utmc | calculates the average length of time users spend on our site (in conjunction with _utmb) | when browser is closed |
| _utmz | records information about how the page was reached | 6 months |
| _utmmobile | used to determine unique visitors to the site | 2 years |
For further information please see cookies set by Google Analytics
Managing your cookies
To find out how to allow, block, delete and manage cookies, follow the link below and select the browser you are using. You can also read your browser’s built-in or online help for more information.
External Links – Please note that this policy does not cover links to other websites
