Use of Cookies

The following specifies to the public, how our use of cookies affects them and why we use cookies:

• A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are
• A cookie will typically contain the name of the website from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number
• We cannot identify you personally by using a cookie. Cookies store no personal data and are not used to gather personal information

Lancashire County Council uses cookies in the following ways:

1. To count the total number of unique visitors who are accessing the website over a particular period of time. This also enables us to differentiate between new and returning visitors
2. To ensure that only every 10th visitor is presented with our exit survey and to make sure you are not presented with our exit survey more than once in a three-month period
3. To ensure a persistent connection with the same web server in the load balancing pool
4. To stop you being asked to log on again during the same session. This cookie expires at the end of your session

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