Cookies that measure website use (statistics)
We use Google Analytics and SearchWP cookies to measure how you use our website. These cookies collect information about:
- how you got to the site
- the pages you visit and how long you spend on each page
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how you use cleveland.pcc.police.uk. You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can read Google’s overview of data practices within Google Analytics. Our Privacy Notice has more information about the data we collect using Google Analytics cookies and information we receive from other digital services. We use the following Google Analytics cookies on cleveland.pcc.police.uk:
| Name | Purpose | Category | Expires |
| _ga_<unique id> | Used by Google Analytics to store and count page views and tracking if you have visited before. | Statistics | 1 year |
| _ga, _gid,_gat | Used by Google Analytics to store and count page views and tracking if you have visited before. | Statistics | 2 years |
| swpext86386 | This cookie is used by SearchWP Metrics to track clicks within the search results. | Statistics | 1 week |
Cookies set by other websites (marketing)
Some of our pages may contain content from other sites, like YouTube or Vimeo, which may set their own cookies. These sites are sometimes called ‘third party’ services. This tells us how many people are seeing the content and whether it’s useful.
In addition, if you share a link to a cleveland.pcc.police.uk page, the service you share it on (for example, Facebook) may set a cookie. We have no control over cookies set on other websites – you can turn them off, but not through us.
YouTube and Vimeo videos
We use YouTube or Vimeo to show videos on some cleveland.pcc.police.uk pages. Cookies are set when you visit one of these pages.
| Name | Purpose | Category | Expires |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Used by YouTube to count the views of embedded videos and provide bandwidth usage statistics. | Marketing | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Used by YouTube to store the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. | Marketing | 6 months |
| GPS | Stores location data of the current user based on geographical GPS location. | Marketing | Per session |
| YSC | Used by YouTube to prevent spam, fraud and abuse. The YSC cookie ensured that requests to YouTube and Google are being made by the user, and not by other sites. | Marketing | Per session |
| PREF | YouTube uses the ‘PREF’ cookie to store information such as your preferred page configuration and playback preferences like explicit autoplay choices, shuffle content, and player size. For YouTube Music, these preferences include volume, repeat mode, and autoplay. | Marketing | 8 months |
| AEC | Used by Google to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to help ensure advertisers are not incorrectly charged for fraudulent or otherwise invalid impressions or interactions with ads, and that YouTube creators in the YouTube Partner Program are remunerated fairly. | Marketing | 6 months |
| NID | Used by Google to provide ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferences. | Marketing | 6 months |
| DV | Used by Google to provide ad delivery or retargeting. | Marketing | 1 day |
| SOCS | Used by Google to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices. | Marketing | 13 months |
| __Secure-ENID | Used by Google to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language etc. | Marketing | 13 months |
| __Secure-YEC | Used by Google to detect spam, fraud, and abuse to help ensure advertisers are not incorrectly charged for fraudulent or otherwise invalid impressions or interactions with ads, and that YouTube creators in the YouTube Partner Program are remunerated fairly | Marketing | 13 months |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Used by YouTube to manage feature rollout and experimentation | Marketing | 6 months |
| __utm_player | Used by embedded Vimeo videos to monitor analytical data regarding the player performance. | Marketing | 10 minutes |
| vuid | Used by Vimeo to store a user’s usage history with relation to Vimeo embedded videos played by the user on this website. | Marketing | 2 years |
Strictly necessary cookies (functional)
Cookies message
You may see a banner when you visit cleveland.pcc.police.uk inviting you to accept cookies or review your settings. We’ll set cookies so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and not to show it again, and also to store your settings.
| Name | Purpose | Category | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| CookieControl | Used by the Civic Cookie Control consent system to store the accepted cookie policy ID. | Functional | 1 year |
Google reCAPTCHA cookies
In some limited circumstances, we may use Google reCAPTHCA to help us detect fraudulent activity. We also use Google reCAPTCHA for spam prevention. Some of the data collected by reCAPTCHA cookies is forwarded to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service.
| Name | Purpose | Category | Expires |
| rc::c | Used by Google reCAPTCHA to read and filter requests from bots. We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software. Some of the data collected by reCAPTCHA cookies is forwarded to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service. | Functional | Per session |
| rc::b | Used by Google reCAPTCHA to read and filter requests from bots. We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software. Some of the data collected by reCAPTCHA cookies is forwarded to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service. | Functional | Per session |
| rc::a | Used by Google reCAPTCHA to read and filter requests from bots. We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software. Some of the data collected by reCAPTCHA cookies is forwarded to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service. | Functional | Persistent |
| _grecaptcha | Used by Google reCAPTCHA to read and filter requests from bots. We use Google reCAPTCHA on this site to make sure that information (for example, in forms) is entered by a human and not by automated software. Some of the data collected by reCAPTCHA cookies is forwarded to Google. See the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Terms of Service. | Functional | 6 months |
Other essential cookies
Essential cookies keep your information secure while you use our website. We do not need to ask permission to use them.
| Name | Purpose | Category | Expires |
| wpe-auth | Used to store user status (strictly for logged in users). | Functional | Per session |
| wp_lang | Used by WordPress to store the user’s language preferences. | Functional | Per session |
| wp_data_user_* | Used by WordPress to provide administrative functionality | Functional | 15 days |
| wordpress_logged_in_* | Used by WordPress to store logged in users. | Functional | Persistent |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Used on sites built with WordPress. Tests whether or not the browser has cookies enabled. | Functional | Per session |
| wordpress_sec_* | Used by WordPress to provide protection against hackers and store account details. | Functional | 15 days |
| wordpress_settings_* | Used by WordPress to store user preferences. | Functional | 1 year |
| __cf_bm | Used by Cloudflare – strictly necessary to provide the services requested by users | Functional | 30 minutes |
| _cfuvid | Used by Cloudflare – strictly necessary to provide the services requested by users. | Functional | Per session |
| googtrans | Used by google to store translate language settings. | Functional | Per session |