Information about the service
- About the Application
- Terms and Conditions
- Privacy Notice
- Cookie Policy
- Accessibility Statement
- Data Licenses
Cookie Policy
The 'Get an air pollution assessment' service puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you use the service. Find out more about the cookies we use, what they’re for and when they expire.
Strictly necessary cookies
Your progress
When you use the 'Get an air pollution assessment' service, we’ll set a cookie to remember your progress through the service. These cookies do not store your personal data and are deleted once you’ve completed visit and closed your browser window.
| Name | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| JSESSIONID | Used to store and identify a users' session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website. | After each visit |
| _oauth2_proxy_0/_1 | Tracks user sessions, storing OAuth2 ID tokens on the client-side, ensuring continued secure access. | After each visit |
Language
The 'Get an air pollution assessment' service has the ability for multi-language and this cookie saves which language a user has chosen in the interface, if it is available.
| Name | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| AERIUS_Locale | Saves which language a user has chosen in the interface, if it is available. | 1 year |
Cookie management
You may see a cookie banner when you visit the 'Get an air pollution assessment' service, inviting you to accept cookies or review your settings. This information is stored in a cookie that ensures your computer knows you’ve seen it and not to show it again, and also to remember your cookie preferences. This cookie is created by CivicUK.
| Name | Description | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| CookieControl | Stores the user's cookie consent preferences | 2 months |
Non-essential cookies
Cookies that measure service use
We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how you use the 'Get an air pollution assessment' service. We use the information to compile reports on the number of visitors, the pages they visit and the time they spend, to help us improve the service. We will only implement Google Analytics cookies if a user selects that preference in the cookie banner.
We use the following Google Analytics cookies:
| Name | Purpose | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google analytics cookie used to identify and track an individual user session. | 1 year |
| _gid | Google analytics cookie ID used to distinguish users for 24 hours. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager. | 1 minute |
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies on the 'Get an air pollution assessment' service website by clicking on the blue "C" icon in the bottom right corner of any page or by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
You can read Google’s overview of data practices within Google Analytics.
Other government digital services also use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how you use them. Each digital service has its own consent mechanism and cookie policy that provides more information about their use of cookies.
Privacy
The 'Get an air pollution assessment' service Privacy Notice has more information about the data we collect.