We want to make the content we provide on this website to be rich and relevant. This sometimes involves placing cookies on your computer or mobile device.
Cookies are simple pieces of data stored on your hard drive. They are safe as they cannot be used to spread viruses. Cookies we use cannot be used to identify you as no personal information such as telephone numbers or email addresses are stored within these cookies.
We use cookies to:
- Improve your visit to our websites. This might mean helping you share content on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter or storing any preferences so that you don’t have to enter them again.
- Measure how many people use our websites and what pages and services they use. This helps us improve our digital output and provide the best experience possible.
We’d recommend that you accept our use of cookies as they are designed to help you get the best out of our digital services.
However, if you choose to opt out of receiving our cookies, you’ll still be able to view and use our websites, but won’t have the best possible experience.
Update your Cookie Consent Settings| Name | Domain | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ^_ga | google.com | 2 years | The main cookie used by Google Analytics, enables the service to distinguish one visitor from another and lasts for 2 years. Any site that implements Google Analytics, including Google services, uses the ‘_ga’ cookie. Each ‘_ga’ cookie is unique to the specific property, so it cannot be used to track a given user or browser across unrelated websites. |
| _gid | google.com | 1 day | Registers a unique ID used by Google Analytics, that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website |
Embedded content and social media cookies
This website may contain an embedded content and social media third-party cookies.
Cookies placed on your computer or mobile device from a third party are not related to edinburgh.gov.uk or Forever Edinburgh. The Council does not control how a third party uses their cookies. Please check third party websites’ privacy policies.
Our site has a number of pages with embedded videos or other content that utilise cookies from a third party to enable this.
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