A cookie is a small piece of text stored on your computer, phone or whatever device you use to surf the Internet. Cookies have many uses, but fundamentally they are used to store information about you on your computer.
We encourage you to accept the cookies our web site uses as they help us to improve the user experience for you and many others.
We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience. We also use log files and Cookies to keep track of your login name, passwords, and the pages you have visited on the site.
Collecting information
This site uses 'cookies' in order to provide a service to visitors. No personal data is stored in cookies and cookies are not used in order to provide advertising.
Cookies are used for the following purposes:
1. to check that cookies can be set or not
2. to test if javascript can be run on your browser
3. to check if you need to perform a browser update.
Other council services
This website links to other websites providing Council services.
Such websites carry their own cookie policies and arrangements and are not controlled by this website.
Examples of such are:
1. Our online payments system
2. Online forms
3. Online Mapping
We do not use Google Analytics.
We use Twitter to keep residents of Staffordshire up to date with our latest developments.
Twitter does not constitute a part of this website although can be accessed via links from our site. If you leave our website to access Twitter on their own website, we have no control over cookies applied to your computer.
YouTube
We use YouTube to house our video content, which is then embedded within our site.
Youtube does not collect personal data when videos are viewed in-page on our site. If you leave our website to access Youtube on their own website, we have no control over cookies applied to your computer.
Cookies used on our website
| Cookie Name | Expiration | Purpose |
| browserupdateorg | 3 hours | Notifies user if a browser update is needed - local only. |
| cannock-chase-district-council_cookiecontrol | 90 days | Stores cookie preference setting for cookie control |
| has_js | End of session | Used by Drupal to determine if a browser will run javascript. |
None of the above cookies collect or store personal data.
To delete or reject cookies cookies
We recommend you allow the cookies we set by this web site as they help us provide a better service. Disallowing our cookies will affect the functionality this site.
If you do not want to receive cookies from this website, select cookie settings under the privacy settings in your browser options, then add our domain to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from.
To access this using Internet Explorer select the following menu options;
1. Tools > 2. Internet Options > 3. Privacy
From here you may also block our site's cookies by selecting the 'sites' button and adding our web address.
Under settings you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored.
You can find more information on how to delete and control cookies at AboutCookies.org
If you set your browser to refuse cookies, please be aware that there may be functionality on various web sites that does not work.
Last Updated: 14/04/2022