Privacy Statement: How We Use Cookies
Last Updated: 15th January 2024
Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit some websites.
We use cookies to personalise content and ads, and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you’ve provided to them or they've collected from your use of their services. We use cookies to help identify your computer so we can tailor your user experience, and remember who you are if you "log in" to the service.
You can disable any cookies already stored on your computer, but these may stop our website from functioning properly.
Essential Cookies
The following cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of our website.
| Cookie Name | Set By | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ASP.NET_SessionId | streetcheck.co.uk | Used to allow the website to remember users between page visits, for example to show status messages where a process spans multiple pages. |
| .ASPXAUTH | streetcheck.co.uk | Used to determine if a user is authenticated. |
| __RequestVerificationToken | streetcheck.co.uk | Used to ensure that the user posting data to our service is using our web forms. It is an anti-forgery token (CSRF attack prevention). |
| cookiesuppress_statistics | streetcheck.co.uk | Allows us to record that you do not want to receive cookies that track website performance (see below section on Performance Statistics Cookies). |
| qos_token | openstreetmap.org | Used by our mapping provider (OpenStreetMap) to ensure that it does not receive too many requests during a given time period. |
The data in these cookies is encoded, and your email address and password are never exposed and are not contained in them.
Performance Statistics Cookies
The following are not Strictly Necessary, but help to provide you with the best user experience by allowing us to analyse user behaviour and also to tell us which pages you find most interesting (anonymously).
| Cookie Name | Set By | Description |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | streetcheck.co.uk | Used by Google Analytics as a unique ID that allows tracking of user movements across pages on this website over multiple sessions. |
| _gat | streetcheck.co.uk | Used by Google Analytics to throttle requests in the statistics it gathers. |
| _gid | streetcheck.co.uk | Used by Google Analytics as a unique ID that allows tracking of user movements across pages on this website within a single session. |
| ACOOKIE | statse.webtrendslive.com | Used by the NHS to gather anonymous statistics on usage of their data on our website. |
| s_vi | omtrdc.net | Also used by the NHS to gather anonymous statistics on usage of their data on our website. |
If you would prefer not to receive statistics cookies you may disable them using the button below. In doing so you agree to placing a cookie on your system to remember this setting.
You may also opt out of Google Analytics data collection in general by using Google's browser plugin tool, available here.
Third Party Advertising Cookies
We use advertisements to support the site financially, so that we can continue to deliver this website to you free of charge. The advertisements you see on this website are provided through Google AdSense and in turn by other organisations (ad technology providers) that use the AdSense platform. Some of these organisations use their own anonymous cookies to track how many people have seen a particular ad, or to track how many people have seen it more than once. The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies, and we have no access to read or write these cookies. These organizations may use their cookies to anonymously target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to StreetCheck. You can view a list of the ad technology providers with which data is shared by clicking here. Google AdSense also uses cookies to allow for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse. Google Analytics may also collect data about your traffic via Google advertising cookies and identifiers, in addition to data collected through a standard Google Analytics implementation mentioned in the "Performance Statistics Cookies" section above.
| Cookie Name | Set By | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __gads _gac |
streetcheck.co.uk | Used to measure interaction with ads served through AdSense, and to prevent the same adverts being shown too many times. |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | Used by DoubleClick to check if the user's browser supports cookies. |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | Used by Google DoubleClick to analyse user actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads. This helps them measure the conversion statistics of ads and to present targeted ads to the user. |
| NID SID ANID DSID FLC AID TAID exchange_uid 1P_JAR |
google.com, googleadservices.com, googlesyndication.com and Google's regional websites e.g. google.co.uk | Allows Google to remember searches, interactions ads or search results, and clicks to ad websites. Also used by Google to track you across devices using your Google account - see Google's Cookie Documentation. |
| Conversion | google.com, googleadservices.com, googlesyndication.com and Google's regional websites e.g. google.co.uk | Used to determine how many times a user has clicked on an ad, and if it led them to purchase a product |
Google's advertising policy can be found by clicking here and Google's cookie policy can be found here. Google also provides a website where you can opt out of all advertisement personalisation, which is available here
Futher Information
If you wish to find out more about what cookies are and what they can be used for, please read this Microsoft guide.
For details on the privacy issues of internet advertising, please visit youronlinechoices.com.
For further legal information about privacy issues in the UK, please refer to The Information Commissioner's Office website, and the Data Protection Act 1998.
StreetCheck is a trading name of Wired Software Ltd, which is a data controller registered with the Information Commissioner's Office. For more information on our registration, please see our privacy policy.
If you wish to discuss cookies or privacy issues with us, please use our contact page here.