Below you will find details about the cookies that may be set when you visit the Torbay Council website.
Please note: If you choose to disable these cookies (in particular the Functional Cookies) then the applications will not work. Therefore, in order to get the best out of our website you will need to ensure that you allow cookies.
| Name | Cookies | Purpose and Expiry | More Information |
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| Google Analytics | __utma __utmb __utmc _utmz | These cookies to help us collect accurate information about the number of visitors to our website and how they use it to enable us to continually improve our service. Expiry: 2 years / 30 minutes / Upon exit / 2 years | Google: Privacy Policy ![]() |
| Family Service Directory | Trackerate | This cookie is used to store a list of the pages that a user visits during their navigation of the site. The list is added to on every visit to create a profile of site user paths and assist owners in improve site design and navigation. Expiry: 1 year | |
| Website Take-up Service | Socitm_include_me[x] Socitm_exclude_me[x] Socitm_exclude_alt[x] | These cookies determine whether a visitor has participated in our online survey, or has rejected taking part, and prevent you from being invited to participate multiple times in the same survey. Expiry: 2 years | SOCITM Cookies and Website Take-Up Service ![]() |
| Name | Cookies | Purpose and Expiry |
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| Contrast | Style | This cookie remembers your contrast preference within certain sections and applications on our website. Expiry: 1 year |
| Councillors and Decisions | TextSizePerCent | This cookie remembers your text size selections within the Councillors and Decisions section of our website. Expiry: 1 year |
| Family Service Directory | SiteKit | This cookie is used to persist any logins to extranets or restricted areas. A successful login is held in this cookie so that when a user navigates to another extranet page they are not requested to login again. Expiry: 30 minutes |
| Jobs | AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport | This cookie simply determines whether you browser currently supports cookies. Expiry: When you exit the browser |
| Public Access and Licensing | JSESSIONID | This is a session cookie, which is a temporary cookie. It does not collect personal data from your computer. Expiry: When you exit the browser |
| School Admissions | ASPSESSIONIDQSCxxxxxx .ASPXAUTH | This is a session cookie, which is a temporary cookie. It does not collect personal data from your computer. Expiry: When you exit the browser |
| FontSize | This cookie remembers your font size preference. Expiry: 100 years |
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| Culture | This cookie remembers your language preference. Expiry: 100 years |
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| Text Size | TextSize TextSizePerCent | This cookie remembers your text size selections or preferences within certain sections and applications on our website. Expiry: 1 year |
| Transactional Forms | UnifiedSessionID ASP.NET_SessionID _RequestVerificatonToken | Our transactional forms and sites use session cookies. (Jobs, Reporting, Libraries, Payments, Certificates, Newspaper Index, Councillors and Decisions, Housing Benefit Form and Calculator, Family Service Directory, Council Tax/Business Rates Balance, Bin Collections, Registration). Expiry: At the end of the session |
Contact Web Team
- Tel: 01803 208838
- Email: webmaster@torbay.gov.uk
- Fax: NA

