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A 'cookie' is a small piece of text stored on your computer, phone or whatever you use to surf the Internet. Cookies have many uses, but fundamentally they are used to store information about you on your computer. We encourage you to accept the cookies our website uses as they help us to improve the user experience for you and many others.

Adur and Worthing Councils make limited use of cookies during your visit to our site. Cookies are devices which identify your computer to our webserver and personalise our website for your future use. Cookies are only used to pass information submitted by you for use on another webpage on our site (ie during a search or when using our GIS system or when accessing an on-line database).

A cookie will not be created to personally identify you as an individual for our purposes. Instead they may contain a number that represents your saved location used for bin collection day lookups. If you did not use the cookie, you would have to type in your postcode and select your address everytime you wanted to do a bin day lookup.

You can amend your browser settings to prevent cookies, but this might affect your use and the functionality of this site and some features may not work if cookies are turned off or restricted.

Please also see the policy on the Adur Council website.

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Links to external websites :

Worthing website specific cookies

We made a decision with the new www.worthing.gov.uk website to use cookies minimally to store useful information that makes the website a smoother to use. We considered the alternative, a log in based system but based on the fact that:

  • Cookies allow you to decide when to delete as they are on your computer's log in, rather than us holding the information on a database on our systems
  • Remove the hassle of having to have a "log in" for our website

The cookies this website may set are:

  • Name of cookie: socitm_exclude_me2
    Expires: 1 year
    Purpose: When you visit our website you may be asked to take part in our SOCITM provided website survey. This cookie is set to stop this popping up when you either accept or decline to take part. Without this cookie you might get repeated requests as you browse our website
  • Name of cookie: worthingGovUkSBar
    Expires: 1 year
    Purpose: To remember whether you have hidden or shown the sidebar on the homepage when you next visit or drop back on to the homepage. Without this the sidebar would forget whether you had hidden it.
  • Name of cookie: worthingGovUkWstUSRN
    Expires: 3 years
    Purpose: Contains your saved location's street as a Unique Street Reference Number. So for example, Reigate Road is not stored as "Reigate Road" but as a number. This is used for the bin day lookup gadget on the homepage. Without this you would need to enter your postcode and select your property each time you wanted to do a lookup.
  • Name of cookie: worthingGovUkUPRN
    Expires: 3 years
    Purpose: Contains your saved property's location as a Unique Property Reference Number. So for example, 1 Acacia Avenue is not stored as "1 Acacia Avenue" but as a long number. This is used for bin day lookups, find my nearest and other tools on the Worthing website that have "Use my location" functionality. Without this you would need to enter an address each time you used a function that uses Use my location functionality.

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Adur & Worthing Planning Online system cookie

The Adur & Worthing Planning Online system uses 'Session Cookies' which are are stored on your computer at the beginning of your session and deleted by your browser when the session terminates. If you do not wish the Online Planning System to save these session cookies onto your computer then you may adjust your browser settings to prevent their use, however this may affect your usage of the system. Please consult your browser's help for guidance on how to do this.

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SiteAnalyze web analytics cookie

This cookie is used to help record your use of this website. It is used to collect statistics about site usage such as when you last visited the site. This information is then used to improve the user experience on our website.

This SiteAnalyze cookie contains a randomly generated ID used to recognise your browser when you read a page. The cookie contains no personal information and is used only for web analytics.

This SiteAnalyze cookie is called 'nmstat' in the list of cookies and is set to expire 1,000 days after your last visit.

For information about SiteAnalyze see :

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Google Analytics cookie - we are currently trialing this service

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ('Google').

Google Analytics uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.

Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

The cookies named '__utma' through ' __utmz' are part of Google Analytics, originally by the urchin tracking module, also by the newer 'ga.js'. For information about these cookies see :

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YouTube cookie

The code provided by YouTube to embed a movie on web sites may by default set both browser (HTTP) cookies and Flash cookies (Flash Storage Objects).

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Twitter cookie

The code provided by Twitter to include Twitter functionality on a website may by default set cookies.

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Facebook cookie

The code provided by Facebook to include various Facebook functions on a website may by default set cookies.

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e-Petitions cookie

INOVEM Inclusionware products only use cookies to store user session and login data. The Adobe ColdFusion framework which generates the web pages uses a set of cookies to store session data. These are CFTOKEN, CFID and JSESSIONID. They contains a unique random-number ID for each visitor (no sensitive data is stored in the cookie itself).

When people login to the site login information is stored as a cookie on their computer; again that only contains a reference to the user, not any actual data about them. All of those cookies only last until the browser window is closed, unless the user has ticked the 'remember me' option on login, in which case they remain permanently - cookies are what does the 'remembering' in that case.

  • Name of cookie: SpiderLogon
    Expires: End of session, or if asked to 'remember my details' the +30 years
    Purpose: Once you have logged on with username and password, so you don't have to do it for every Web page you request from the e-petitions service.
  • Name of cookie: SpiderRememberMeLogon
    Expires: +30 years
    Purpose: Once you have logged on with username and password, to make it easier to log in again if you choose 'Remember me'. This cookie remembers if you want to be remembered.
  • Name of cookie: SpiderUserPrefs
    Expires: 1 month
    Purpose: To remember your selections or preferences that you've already made when looking at information or using an e-petitions service.

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SNAP Surveys cookie

Some of the interactive on-line surveys we publish on our website use the SNAP software.

A Cookie is sometimes set in the survey which saves a small text file, called a Cookie, on a respondent’s computer so that they will be unable to complete any further copies of the questionnaire until the cookie expires, thereby preventing multiple questionnaires from the same respondent.

Or some surveys may be set up so they can be completed in several sessions (not all in one go) in this case partially complete responses are saved using cookies on the respondents computer, therefore cookies would need to be enabled to allow saving of the survey and then subsequently completing the survey again on the same computer at a later date.

For information about SNAP surveys see :

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Stratus GIS

Stratus GIS uses cookies in the following specific area:

  • The 'Recently Selected Addresses' list is remembered between browser sessions by using a client side cookie to store the list of addresses.

The information saved does not contain any personal data and does not track the users usage or other personal information.

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