Cookies that measure website use (statistics)
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how you use sheffieldhcp.org.uk. You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can read Google’s overview of data practices within Google Analytics. Our Privacy Notice has more information about the data we collect using Google Analytics cookies and information we receive from other digital services. We use the following Google Analytics cookies on sheffieldhcp.org.uk:
| Name | Purpose | Category | Expires |
| _ga_<unique id> | These help us count how many people visit sheffieldhcp.org.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before | statistics | 1 year |
| _ga, _gid, _gat | These help us count how many people visit sheffieldhcp.org.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before | statistics | 2 years |
Cookies set by other websites (marketing)
Some of our pages may contain content from other sites, like YouTube or Vimeo, which may set their own cookies. These sites are sometimes called ‘third party’ services. This tells us how many people are seeing the content and whether it’s useful.
In addition, if you share a link to an Sheffield Health and Care Partnership page, the service you share it on (for example, Facebook) may set a cookie. We have no control over cookies set on other websites – you can turn them off, but not through us.
YouTube videos
We use YouTube to show videos on some sheffieldhcp.org.uk pages. YouTube sets cookies when you visit one of these pages.
| Name | Purpose | Category | Expires |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Used by YouTube to count the views of embedded videos and provide bandwidth usage statistics | Marketing | 6 months |
| GPS | Stores location data of the current user based on geographical GPS location | Marketing | session |
| YSC | Used by YouTube to prevent spam, fraud and abuse. The YSC cookie ensured that requests to YouTube and Google are being made by the user, and not by other sites. | Marketing | session |
| PREF | YouTube uses the ‘PREF’ cookie to store information such as your preferred page configuration and playback preferences like explicit autoplay choices, shuffle content, and player size. For YouTube Music, these preferences include volume, repeat mode, and autoplay | Marketing | 8 months |
Google maps
We sometimes use Google maps. Google sets the following cookies when you visit a page which contains a map.
| Name | Purpose | Category | Expires |
| khcookie, NID, SNID and PREF | Set and used by Google Maps to provide interactive location maps. | Marketing | 24 months |
Strictly necessary cookies (functional)
Cookies message
You may see a banner when you visit sheffieldhcp.org.uk inviting you to accept cookies or review your settings. We’ll set cookies so that your computer knows you’ve seen it and not to show it again, and also to store your settings.
| Name | Purpose | Category | Expires |
| CookieControl | Used by the Civic Cookie Control consent system to store the accepted cookie policy ID. | Functional | 1 year |
Other essential cookies
Essential cookies keep your information secure while you use our website. We do not need to ask permission to use them.
| Name | Purpose | Category | Expires |
| wpe-auth | Used to stored logged in user status | Functional | session |
| wp_lang | Used by WordPress to store the users language preferences | Functional | session |
| wp_data_user_* | Used by WordPress to provide administrative functionality | Functional | various |
| __cf_bm | Used by cloudflare to read and filter requests from bots | Functional | 30 minutes |
