Cookie Policy
Who we are
Foster Wales are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Cookie Policy is provided for your information as a user of this website.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Almost every modern website in the world uses cookies to enhance your web browsing experience.
The file is saved to your computer and performs various purposes – from helping analyse web traffic to storing your website visitor preferences. Cookies allow websites such as ours to respond to your preferences as an individual. Our website can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website – for instance, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. We also can’t use cookies to identify you, or to distinguish you from other people who use your device using the same user account.
To find out more information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Cookies used on this website
| Cookie Name | Purpose | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rcl_consent_given | This is an essential cookie used to store your cookie selection when first visiting the website. Your preference will be stored for 1 calendar year after your first visit. You may clear your browser's cache and the website will re-prompt you to make a selection. | |||||
| Expiry | Category | Provider | Location | |||
| 1 year | Essential | IOACC | Internal | |||
| rcl_statistics_consent | If selected, this cookie will store and check your preferance for allowing the website to collect statistical data about how you use the website, including IP address, approximate geographical location provided by your ISP, and your navigation through the site. It allows cookies from the statistcal category below to be loaded. | |||||
| Expiry | Category | Provider | Location | |||
| 1 year | Essential | IOACC | Internal | |||
| rcl_marketing_consent | This cookie may appear if you opt to allow all cookies. It is currently unused and will not store any information. | |||||
| Expiry | Category | Provider | Location | |||
| 1 year | Essential | IOACC | Internal | |||
| rcl_preferences_consent | This cookie may appear if you opt to allow all cookies. It is currently unused and will not store any information. | |||||
| Expiry | Category | Provider | Location | |||
| 1 year | Essential | IOACC | Internal | |||
| ORA_WWV_APP_ | This cookie is managed by My Council Services and Abavus and is used for managing your submission of data when using the contact form. | |||||
| Expiry | Category | Provider | Location | |||
| End of browser session | Essential | Abavus | External | |||
| AWS_ | This cookie is managed by our service provider, Zengenti Ltd and Amazon Web Services. It is used for server load balancing for optimal delivery of web content. No personal information is stored. | |||||
| Expiry | Category | Provider | Location | |||
| End of browser session | Essential | Zengenti Ltd and Amazon Web Services Uk Limited | External | |||
| nmstat | This cookie is managed by Siteimprove and is used to help record your use of the website. It is used to collect statistics about site usage such as when you last visited the site. This information can then be used to improve the user experience on the website. | |||||
| Expiry | Category | Provider | Location | |||
| 999 days | Statistical | Siteimprove Ltd | External | |||
| _gcl_au | Provided by Google Tag Manager to experiment advertisement efficiency of websites using their services. | |||||
| Expiry | Category | Provider | Location | |||
| 3 months | Statistical | External | ||||
| _ga and _ga_* | A single cookie called ‘_ga’, along with various additional cookies are set, with their names prefixed with ‘_ga_’, by Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a third-party service which we use to collect information about how visitors use our website. The service uses a non-sensitive unique ID for each user, which is then used to generate statistical data on how visitors use our website. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve our website. Data obtained via these cookies is accessible by Foster Wales/Google and associated Google services. | |||||
| Expiry | Category | Provider | Location | |||
| 2 years | Statistical | External | ||||