What are cookies?
A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a small text file. Our website generates and sets cookies and places them on your computer’s hard drive.
Cookies make your interaction with our website faster and easier. We use them to remember your preferences between pages and site visits.
They are not computer programs, and they don't execute as code. Cookies cannot access any information on your computer. They cannot read any other information saved there, such as your email address. We do not use cookies for identifying shopping habits or targeting advertising.
We use cookies to save you time and make your browsing experience more efficient. Without cookies you would have to set your preferences on each page you visit. They also record anonymous statistics. These tell us which parts of the website are popular and how many different people visit the site.
Visit All About Cookies to find out more information about cookies.
What happens if I allow cookies?
Unless you opt out of cookies, we will set some cookies on your computer. These assist you when using the website and improve your user experience. The cookies notice will not appear on future visits to our website.
What happens if I decline cookies?
If you do not accept cookies, we will remove the cookies that are not needed for basic functionality. We will not set them again on your machine.
This may affect your user experience. Unfortunately, cookies are the only way we have of remembering your preferences. Rejecting cookies means that we will have to ask your cookie preferences on every page you visit.
Cookies on our website
We use cookies for a few reasons on our website. These include; gathering statistics from our website, and remembering your preferences.
Google Analytics Cookies on the Bedford Borough Council website
Bedford Borough Council uses Google Analytics to see how visitors use the sites so that we can make the site more focused on their needs. To do this, the site will collect anonymous details of visitor behaviour patterns and usage statistics, whenever users visit any of the Council’s webpages. The information gathered helps the council to improve our online services, and is not used to determine the identity of our visitors.
The cookies used on the Bedford Borough Council website are as follows:
What if I disable cookies on the Bedford Borough Council website?
You can adjust your computer to accept all, some or alternatively, not to accept any cookies at all. However, disabling or even partially disabling cookies on the Council’s website may have an impact on your web experience, and possibly restrict or even preclude the Council from being able to contact and assist you in certain circumstances.
How can I enable / disable / delete cookies?
The majority of browsers (ie Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, etc) allow for universal privacy setting which are applied to all websites visited, when using that browser. Differing browsers offer differing ways to manage cookies, which is done via the browsers privacy settings. The help function within your browser should be able to assist you with this. Further information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set as well as how to manage them, can be found by visiting the ICO website