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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.

NameDescriptionExpires
JSESSIONIDUsed to store and identify a users' session ID for the purpose of managing user session on the website.After each visit
_oauth2_proxy_0/_1Tracks 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.

NameDescriptionExpires
AERIUS_LocaleSaves 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.

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CookieControlStores the user's cookie consent preferences2 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:

NamePurposeExpires
_gaGoogle analytics cookie used to identify and track an individual user session.1 year
_gidGoogle analytics cookie ID used to distinguish users for 24 hours.24 hours
_gatUsed 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.