Cookie Policy
This cookie policy explains how Garstang Town Council uses cookies and similar technologies on garstangtowncouncil.gov.uk.
Cookies and similar technologies help websites work properly, remember your preferences, improve performance and, where you choose to allow it, load optional third-party content.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser, while others remain on your device for longer.
Similar technologies can also be used to store or access information on your device. Throughout this policy, we use the term cookies to refer to cookies and similar technologies more generally.
How We Use Cookies
Garstang Town Council uses cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
- To make the website work properly
- To remember your cookie preferences
- To help protect website forms and other services from spam and abuse
- To understand how the website is used, where optional analytics have been permitted
- To load optional third-party content, such as maps, videos and other embedded services, where consent is required and you have chosen to allow it
Types Of Cookies And Similar Technologies We Use
Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies support essential website functions. They may be used to remember your cookie choices, maintain sessions, support core website features and help keep the website working securely.
These cookies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary to provide the service you have requested.
Analytics And Website Performance
This website may use analytics tools to help Garstang Town Council understand how visitors use the website and how the site can be improved.
Analytics tools that use optional cookies or other technologies requiring consent are only enabled when you make the relevant choice through the website's Cookie Settings.
Some website performance and usage measurements may also take place without setting cookies or using browser storage. These services may provide technical information or aggregated statistics about how the website performs, even where optional cookies have been rejected. Their use remains subject to applicable privacy and data protection requirements.
Third-Party Embedded Content
Some pages may include third-party content or services, such as maps, videos, weather information, planning information, public transport timetables or other embedded content.
Where an embedded service requires consent for non-essential cookies or similar technologies, it will only load when you have chosen to allow it. Other informational services may load automatically where they do not use technologies that require your consent.
Even where an embedded service does not set cookies, your browser may connect directly to its provider. The provider may receive technical information, such as your IP address, browser information and details of the page you are visiting. More information is provided in our Privacy Policy.
Form Security
This website uses Google reCAPTCHA v3 to help protect forms from spam, misuse and automated abuse.
reCAPTCHA is used as a security measure for website forms. It may process technical, device and interaction data to help determine whether a submission is made by a genuine user or an automated system.
Google Fonts
This website may use Google Fonts so text can be displayed consistently across different devices and browsers.
When Google Fonts are loaded, your browser may connect to Google's servers to retrieve font files and related resources.
Consent
When you first visit this website, you will be asked to choose whether to accept optional cookies and similar technologies.
Necessary cookies do not require consent. Optional cookies and technologies that require consent, including certain analytics and embedded services, will only be used where you have made a positive choice to allow them.
Some informational services and website performance measurements may operate without optional cookies. Rejecting optional cookies does not necessarily prevent those services from loading.
Changing Your Cookie Preferences
You can change your cookie preferences at any time by using the website's Cookie Settings.
If you withdraw consent for optional cookies or embedded content, some optional website features may no longer be available until you choose to enable them again.
Third-Party Services
Depending on the content and features used on a particular page, this website may use third-party services to provide security, website performance information, fonts, maps, public information or other embedded content.
These services may process technical information about your visit and, in some cases, may process data outside the UK. Where international transfers of personal data occur, appropriate safeguards are required under applicable data protection law.
More Information
For more information about how Garstang Town Council handles personal data, please read our Privacy Policy.
If you need to contact Garstang Town Council about this cookie policy or about how your information is used, please use the contact details published on this website or visit the contact page.
Changes To This Cookie Policy
We may update this cookie policy from time to time to reflect changes in legal requirements, website functionality or council practices.
Any updates will be published on this page.