Cookies Policy

This website uses cookies – small data files that it creates and stores on your device – to make our website easier to use, to give you access to our online services, and to anonymously analyse how people use our website.

What are cookies exactly?

A cookie is a small text file stored on your computer by a website. The website stores data in the cookie that it may subsequently use as you move from page to page or in some cases the data may be sent back to the website by your browser (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari or any other software used to ‘browse’ websites).

Cookies are not programs and cannot carry viruses or install malware on your computer.

Many cookies are automatically deleted after you finish using a website. Cookies may come with or without an expiry date: those without an expiry date (session cookies) exist until the browser is closed, while cookies with an expiry date may be stored by the device until the expiry date passes.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies to make your experience of using our website faster and easier. For example:

if you log in we use cookies to remember that;
we monitor how the website is used to improve our website for all users. Information is collected anonymously amd may include how a visitor entered the site (referring links), and how they navigated through the site, i.e. what information was of interest. Skipton Town Hall collects such information indirectly when you access www.skiptontownhall.co.uk and the other websites or web applications that we manage (some of which are managed on behalf of Skipton Town Hall by third party suppliers).

You can restrict or block cookies set by Skipton Town Hall but this may limit your use of some functionality on our site, such as filling in forms and getting access to password protected areas that are in use across any of the sites we manage. However, most things you do on our site will still be possible even with cookies disabled.

Skipton Town Hall uses third-party suppliers who also set cookies throughout our websites on our behalf to deliver the services that they are providing or to record usage. More information on the cookies we and our third-party suppliers set can be found below.

How to manage your cookies

Cookies are sent to your browser (whether you use Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari or any other browser) by a website and then stored in the cookies directory of your device.

To find out how to allow, block, delete and manage the cookies on all standard web browsers please visit the About cookies website. If you use a mobile phone or a tablet to browse our website (or other sites that use cookies), please refer to your device’s support documentation for guidance.

Cookies used on Skipton Town Hall’s website

Third party cookies

These are cookies set by other websites whose services we use on our website.

Google Analytics & Google Tag Manager

Google analytics is a web statistics package that we use to gather information about how visitors use our websites. Google sets various cookies. We cannot obtain personal information from this data. For more information visit Cookies and Google Analytics and the Google privacy center: privacy policy.
The data we collect helps us identify those services that matter to you by enabling us to understand:

how people ‘find’ our website
which pages people visit on the website
which internet browsers and what types of device are being used

Google have developed a browser Add-on which excludes Google Analytics recording your activities on any websites using Google Analytics. It’s totally free and can be installed on most browsers.

Other services

We do use other services and the list above may not exhaustive. We will add any new information as soon as we can. If you’ve any questions about any website or web application in particular please contact us via email on: townhall@cravendc.gov.uk

Cookies on websites that we link to

Some websites we refer you to may immediately set session cookies. We cannot audit the use of cookies by these external sites so you should be aware of their use and be prepared to manage them if you follow links to other sites from the SkiptonTownHall website.