Cookies
We use a number of cookies on our site to help provide the best service for the user. Here we explain what we use, and why.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer so that the site can remember who you are. We use them to both enhance the experience for the user and also to help us to collect statistical data about the use of our website.
What cookies do we set?
A list of all the cookies that we set are listed below:
My West Oxfordshire sets the following cookies:
Name: ASP.NET_SessionId
Typical content: random string identifying browsing session to server
Expires: when user exits browser
Name: astun
Typical content: version number of Astun iShare web application
Expires: After one month
Name: astun:baseMap
Typical content: identifier for most recently selected base map in My Maps
Expires: After one year
Name: astun:currentLocation
Typical content: most recently set address and its coordinates
Expires: After one month
Name: astun:mapSource
Typical content: identifier for map overlay configuration in My Maps
Expires: After one year
Name: astun:mapView
Typical content: location and extents of the most recent view of the map in My Maps
Expires: After one year
Name: astun:previousLocation
Typical content: address and its coordinates of last location in My Maps
Expires: After one month
Name: atMyCouncil
Typical content: identifier of most recent tab visited by user and changes to visibility of panels in My House and My Nearest
Expires: After one month
Name: atMyLocation
Typical content: most recently set address and its coordinates
Expires: After one month
Name: jQuery-ui-panelsCollapseStatus
Typical content: IDs of collapsed panels in My Maps
Expires: After one week
Name: myAlerts
Typical content: Encrypted user logon details
Expires: After 90 days
Name: panelsaccordionstatus
Typical content: number identifying last opened panel in My Nearest
Expires: After 300 days
Socitm Web Survey
The system places multiple cookies, all of which only contain a true or false value. In all cases the last character (x) refers to the version of the survey, currently 7.
Name: Socitm_include_me(x)
Description: Indicates that a customer has accepted the survey and is either in the process of completing it or has completed it. The customer will not be asked to participate in this version of the survey again.
Expires: 1 year
Name: Socitm_exclude_me(x)
Description: Indicates that a customer has rejected the survey and will not be invited to participate in this version of the survey again until the cookie expires. This cookie is also placed when the system processes the code to invite a customer to participate but detects the socitm_include_me(x) cookie while doing so and does not present the survey as a result.
Expires: 1 year
Name: Socitm_exclude_alt(x)
Description: Indicates that a customer should be excluded from an alternate survey. This cookie is placed when the system processes the code to invite a customer to participate in an alternate/additional survey but detects the socitm_include_me(x) cookie while doing so and does not present the alternate survey as a result. Note this cookie will be placed whether or not the subscriber's implementation includes alternate surveys.
Expires: 1 year
The only use made of the Socitm cookies is to prevent customers being invited to participate multiple times in the same survey.
