Cookies

Our site uses cookies to make this site work better for you and for us.

Some of our cookies are essential, and parts of the site won't work without them. These cookies are set when you submit a form, login to your My Islington account or use the interactive maps, for example.

We also use some non-essential cookies to anonymously track visitors. This helps us understand better how people use our site, so that we can improve it.

Managing your cookies

You can decide which kinds of cookies you would like to accept or block on our site by clicking the 'C' icon at the bottom of the screen.

You can also use your web browser to delete or block cookies, clear all cookies when you close the browser and open a 'private browsing'/'incognito' session, which allows you to browse the internet without storing local data.

Where to find information about controlling cookies in your browser

Cookies used on this website

Functional cookies (islington.gov.uk)

Name	Expires	Purpose
ASP.NET_SessionId	When you close your browser	Used to pass information from one screen to another and then to store the information in our backend systems.
ARRAAffinity	End of session	To allow load balancing of the website
ARRAAffinitySameSite	End of session	To allow load balancing of the website

My Islington account (account.islington.gov.uk)

These cookies are necessary for technical reasons to provide you with our services, and to enable our products to operate. Because these cookies are necessary, you cannot refuse them without affecting how this account works. You can block or delete them by changing browser settings, but keep in mind that this may limit the functionality of our services.

Name	Expires	Purpose
localtime	At end of session	Picked up server side to calculate local time from UTC time.
PHPSESSID	40 mins	Session id
APP_LANG	24 hours	Eg en Language used to view site
_lastlogin	At end of session	unix timestamp
product	One day	Used to track which website you are visiting
AWSALB	One week	Used to track which website you are visiting
AWSALBCORS	One week	Used to track which website you are visiting

Interactive maps and Your area

Name	Expires	Purpose
MapThat_SessionId	When you close your browser	Used to pass information from one screen to another.

Preferences

Name	Expires	Purpose
Announcements_<id>	One year	Used to track when a user closes an announcement, to prevent it showing again
hideCookieBanner	One year	Used to record whether the user has recorded cookie preferences.
CookieControl	90 days	Used to record whether the user has accepted cookies related to analytics and preferences.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use our site. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements, for example improving site search.

Google Analytics stores information about:

the pages you visit
how long you spend on each page
how you got to the site
what you click on while you’re visiting the site

We don’t collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are.

We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.

The following cookies are set by Google Analytics on www.islington.gov.uk and many of our other subdomains and web systems.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit Google Analytics opt-out tools

Google Analytics cookies
Name	Expires	Purpose
_ga	2 years	Distinguishes unique users
_gid	24 hours	Groups user behavior into sessions
_gat	One minute	Throttles request rate to Google servers
ga<container-id>	2 years	Maintains session state

Other analytics tools

We use also Sitecore and Sitecore Analytics to help collect information about how you use our site. This data is collected and stored anonymously.

Name	Expires	Purpose
SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE	10 years	Sitecore analytics cookie
nmstat	3 years	Siteimprove analytics cookie

Microsoft Clarity

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioural metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Microsoft captures usage data using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity.

We also use this information for site optimisation, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft website.

Name	Purpose	Duration
_clck	Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID.	One year
_clsk	Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording.	One day
CLID	Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity.	One year
ANONCHK	Indicates whether MUID transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity uses ANID and so this is always set to 0.	10 minutes
MR	Indicates whether to refresh MUID.	Seven days
MUID	Identifies unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. These cookies are used for advertising, site analytics, and other operational purposes.	One year
SM	MUID across Microsoft domains.	Session

YouTube

We use YouTube to provide videos on some pages of the site. YouTube sets cookies when you visit one of these pages.

Name	Expiry	Purpose
PREF	~8 months	Stores user preferences like language, autoplay, and video settings
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	~6 months	Estimates bandwidth and detects issues with the service
YSC	Session	Tracks views of embedded YouTube videos
LOGIN_INFO	Varies	Stores login information for YouTube accounts
SID, HSID, SSID	~2 years	Security cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use
SAPISID, APISID	~2 years	Used for personalization and ad targeting
NID	~6 months	Stores user preferences and other information (e.g., SafeSearch, layout)