Cookies Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. By understanding how people use the Senedd's websites, we can make improvements to the navigation and content to make the site better and easier to access. A full list of cookies in use across our websites are listed below.
Controlling cookies
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Use of cookies by the Senedd
The table below explains the cookies we use on the following websites:
- senedd.wales (including sub-domains)
- senedd.tv
First party cookies
When using one of our sites you may see that we set cookies to ensure the site functions as intended. Below is a list of site-specific essential for the operation of the site.
|
Site |
Cookie |
Expires |
Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
|
www.senedd.wales |
ARRAffinity |
End of browser session |
Ensures user request are sent to the same server for the duration of the session. |
|
ARRAffinitySameSite |
End of browser session |
Ensures user request are sent to the same server for the duration of the session. |
|
|
CookieControl |
90 days |
Manages visitor cookie preferences. |
|
|
business.senedd.wales allowances.senedd.wales jobs.senedd.wales |
ASP.NET_SessionId |
End of browser session |
Used by the site to identify a user session. This cookie is created by the content management system and is essential in order for the site to function correctly. |
|
www.senedd.tv |
JSESSIONID |
End of browser session |
Used by the site to identify a user session. This cookie is created by the content management system and is essential in order for the site to function correctly. |
Google Analytics
These cookies are used to help us understand how visitors use our websites. Collected data is used to generate regular reports on website usage and helps us to improve the user experience of all our websites. The data gives us insight into the number of users that use our websites and how they arrived there. No personal identifiable information is stored or accessible to us through the service provided by Google i.e. the information is collected in an anonymous form.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For further information on the analytic cookies please visit Google's information pages.
|
Sites |
Cookie |
Expires |
Purpose* |
|
senedd.wales (including sub-domains) senedd.tv |
_utma |
24 months |
Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
|
_utmb |
30 minutes |
Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
|
|
_utmc |
End of browser session |
this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. |
|
|
_utmt |
10 minutes |
Used to throttle request rate. |
|
|
_utmz |
6 months |
Used to store visitor-level custom variable data. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
|
|
|
_ga |
24 months |
Used to distinguish users. |
|
|
_gid |
24 hours |
Used to distinguish users. |
|
|
_gat |
1 minute |
Used to throttle request rate. |
*revised from https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage#gajs on 22/05/2018, https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage on 14/01/2021.
Third party cookies
Twitter feeds and cards are used across a number of our sites. Though Twitter cookies are not explicitly set when using our websites, you may notice these cookies are active when browsing Senedd websites. These cookies will only be set on you device if you have previously used Twitter or a Twitter service.
Embedded Twitter feeds have been configured to ensure visitor data from https://www.senedd.wales is not used for personalisation or tailoring of content on Twitter's services.
For more information please visit Twitter's developer privacy overview and cookie policy.
YouTube
We embed videos from our official YouTube channel, as well as select other channels, across the website. We are working to ensure all embedded videos use YouTube's privacy enhanced mode (with URLs beginning with http://youtube-nocookie.com/). This means that cookies may be set on your device once you play an embedded video.
For more information please visit Google support pages on this topic.
Links to other websites
We regularly link to other websites. Please refer to the cookie / privacy policy of these sites for further information
For further information, please contact us
Last updated: 05/05/2020