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  • Our planned essential maintenance work on the council’s IT systems is now complete and the majority of our systems are now available. − We apologise for any inconvenience during our downtime. Find out more information on this work.

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Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Cookie nameEssentialType of CookieSession or persistentExpiry timeDescription
HACIVIC2EssentialFunctionalSessionOn browser close
HACIVIC2 is a session cookie injected in the website from our infrastructure in order for load balancer to be able keep track of the application server that currently serves the website. It is an essential cookie to the operation of the site that is always set by the load balancer and does not store any personal information.

GoogtransEssentialFunctional
Google		SessionOn browser closeTranslate cookie saves
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