Cookie overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience as you navigate through the website. Cookies are broadly categorised as ‘necessary’ and ‘non-necessary’. Necessary cookies are stored on your browser because they are essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website. Necessary cookies do not store any personal information. Non-necessary cookies are cookies that are used to collect user personal data via analytics or other embedded contents to help analyse and understand how you use a website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.

In respect of our website, your consent for cookies applies only to the following domain: edingtonwiltsparishcouncil.gov.uk

About this cookie policy

This cookie policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use (i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used) and how to control cookie preferences.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, understand how the website performs, and to analyse what works and where it needs improvement.

How do we use cookies?

As for most online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data. The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, providing you with a better and improved user experience, and to help speed up your future interactions with our website.

What types of cookies do we use?

Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow those with accounts to log-on securely.

Statistics: These cookies store information such as the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit etc. These data help us understand and analyse how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing contents on the website on social media platforms.

Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language for example so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.

Marketing: Our website does not specifically display advertisements and so we do not have marketing cookies. Websites that do use such cookies use them to personalise advertisements that you are shown so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help them keep track of the efficiency of ad campaigns. The information stored in these cookies may also be used by their third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites as well.