Cookies

Cookies are small text files that may be placed on your computer when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work and to make them more efficient. Cookies also help website owners understand how you use the site so that they can make it easier to find what you’re looking for.

Find out how to manage cookies on the Information Commissioner’s Office website.

Our privacy statement applies to our use of cookies.

How we use cookies on www.kpho.org.uk

Analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics to understand how you use our website and to gather feedback, so we can improve it.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use this website (kent.gov.uk). We do this to help make sure the site is meeting your needs and to make improvements based on our findings.

Google Analytics stores information about:

  • the pages you visit on kpho.org.uk
  • the time you spend on each page
  • how you got to the site
  • what you click on while you’re visiting the site.

Google may retain user and event data for up to 14 months. We don’t collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so we can’t identify who you are. We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.

Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data and find out how you can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites.

Google Analytics uses the following cookies on our website:

_ga

Used to distinguish users. Expires after 90 days.

_gid

Used to distinguish users. Expires after 24 hours.

_gat

Used to throttle request rate. Expires after 1 minute.

AMP_TOKEN

Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Expires after  30 seconds to 1 year.

_gac_<property-id>

Contains campaign related information for the user. Expires after 90 days.

_ga_<container-id>

Used to persist session state. Expires after 90 days.

_gac_gb_<container-id>

Contains campaign related information. Expires after 90 days.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are needed to make our website work.

Our cookie management solution

You may see a modal window when you visit our website, to let you know that we would like to use cookies and to ask for your consent. We call this our 'cookie management solution'.

We use the following cookies on our website:

cookie-management-preferences-set

Lets us know that you have saved your cookie preferences. Expires after 90 days.

cookie-management-status

Saves your cookie preferences. Expires after 90 days.

cookie-management-version

Allows us to reconfirm your cookie preferences whenever we change our cookie usage. Expires after 90 days.

Squiz Matrix

We use Squiz Matrix to manage the content on our website.

We use the following cookies on our website:

SQ_SYSTEM_SESSION

This allows the site to differentiate between user visits to make the website work.

SimpleSAMLAuthToken

This cookie is used to remember your logged in status. Expires at the end of the session.

SimpleSAMLSessionID

This cookie is used to remember your logged in status. Expires at the end of the session.

SSOredirect

Allows us to redirect you to the page you were on before logging in. Expires at the end of the session.

AWSELB

Used for load balancing. Expires after 1 week.

AWSELBCORS

Used for load balancing. Expires after 1 week.

Changing your cookie settings

If you no longer want this website to use non-essential cookies when you visit, you can manage your cookie preferences using the button below. However, this may not necessarily remove any unexpired cookies we have set. You'll need to reload any open pages for the changes to fully take effect.

There are several ways you can manage or delete cookies depending on which browser you used when you visited our website. Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

Session cookies are only stored temporarily and expire once you close your browser.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit the About cookies website or visit the All about cookies website.