When you visit our website, we may collect certain information by automated means, such as using cookies. 

County Costs keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within County Costs, in order to determine what are the most popular. This information is used to deliver customised content and advertising within County Costs to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The County Costs website uses "cookies" to help you personalise your online experience:

A cookie is a piece of information that is held on the hard drive of your computer which records how you have used a website. Cookies allow website operators to accumulate useful information, such as whether the computer (and sometimes its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

We use cookies to monitor how people use our website including estimating audience size and patterns of use in order to help us to provide you with a better service. Cookies make it easier for you to log on and use the website during future visits. They also allow us to personalise the content of the website for you by storing information about your preferences. We use the following cookies:

Necessary (14)

Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type
#.#-#-#-#-#.ack Typeform Used to contain user’s survey and quiz answers in Local Storage. Persistent HTML Local Storage
#.#-#-#-#-#.inProgress Typeform Used to contain user’s survey and quiz answers in Local Storage. Persistent HTML Local Storage
#.#-#-#-#-#.queue Typeform Used to contain user’s survey and quiz answers in Local Storage. Persistent HTML Local Storage
#.#-#-#-#-#.reclaimEnd Typeform Used to contain user’s survey and quiz answers in Local Storage. Persistent HTML Local Storage
#.#-#-#-#-#.reclaimStart Typeform Used to contain user’s survey and quiz answers in Local Storage. Persistent HTML Local Storage
__cf_bm [x2] Hubspot Pending 1 day HTTP Cookie
_cfuvid Hubspot Pending Session HTTP Cookie
AWSALBTG Typeform Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. 7 days HTTP Cookie
AWSALBTGCORS Typeform Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. 7 days HTTP Cookie
CookieConsent www.countycosts.co.uk Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain 1 year HTTP Cookie
crumb www.countycosts.co.uk Ensures visitor browsing-security by preventing cross-site request forgery. This cookie is essential for the security of the website and visitor. Session HTTP Cookie
test Squarespace Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. Persistent HTML Local Storage
test_cookie Google Pending 1 day HTTP Cookie

Preferences (4)

Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type
loglevel www.countycosts.co.uk Maintains settings and outputs when using the Developer Tools Console on current session. Persistent HTML Local Storage
squarespace-video-player-options Squarespace This cookie is used in conjunction with the video player. The cookie remembers the chosen volume setting and keeps this setting on other video content watched by the visitor. Persistent HTML Local Storage
tf_random_id Typeform Used to implement forms on the website. Persistent HTML Local Storage
tf_respondent_cc Typeform Used to implement forms on the website. 6 months HTTP Cookie

Statistics (12)

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type
dd_cookie_test_# Typeform Registers data on visitors' website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization. 1 day HTTP Cookie
p.gif Adobe Inc. Keeps track of special fonts used on the website for internal analysis. The cookie does not register any visitor data. Session Pixel Tracker
rl_anonymous_id Typeform Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. Persistent HTML Local Storage
rl_group_id Typeform Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. Persistent HTML Local Storage
rl_group_trait Typeform Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. Persistent HTML Local Storage
rl_trait Typeform Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. Persistent HTML Local Storage
rl_user_id Typeform Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. Persistent HTML Local Storage
ss_cvisit Squarespace Contains data on the visit. Collects data such as time spent on the website and website interaction. Session HTTP Cookie
SS_lastvisit Squarespace Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. Session HTTP Cookie
SS_MATTR Squarespace Registers data on visitors' website-behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimization. Session HTTP Cookie
SS_MID Squarespace Registers statistical data on users' behaviour on the website. Used for internal analytics by the website operator. Session HTTP Cookie
tracking_session_id Typeform Determines when the visitor last visited the different subpages on the website, as well as sets a timestamp for when the session started. 1 day HTTP Cookie

Marketing (27)

Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type
#-# Squarespace Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. Session HTML Local Storage
#-visitorId Typeform Pending Persistent HTML Local Storage
__tld__ RudderStack Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences. Session HTTP Cookie
_gcl_au [x2] Google Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. 3 months HTTP Cookie
attribution_user_id Typeform Used in context with the website’s pop-up questionnaires and messengering. The data is used for statistical or marketing purposes. 1 year HTTP Cookie
IDE Google Pending 400 days HTTP Cookie
iU5q-!O9@$ Squarespace Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Session HTML Local Storage
LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY YouTube Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. Session HTTP Cookie
NID Google Pending 6 months HTTP Cookie
pagead/1p-user-list/# Google Tracks if the user has shown interest in specific products or events across multiple websites and detects how the user navigates between sites. This is used for measurement of advertisement efforts and facilitates payment of referral-fees between websites. Session Pixel Tracker
pagead/landing Google Collects data on visitor behaviour from multiple websites, in order to present more relevant advertisement - This also allows the website to limit the number of times that they are shown the same advertisement. Session Pixel Tracker
rudder_cookies RudderStack Pending 1 year HTTP Cookie
ss_cid Squarespace Collects data on visitors. This information is used to assign visitors into segments, making website advertisement more efficient. Session HTTP Cookie
ss_cpvisit Squarespace Collects data on visitors. This information is used to assign visitors into segments, making website advertisement more efficient. Session HTTP Cookie
ss_cvr Squarespace Collects data on visitors. This information is used to assign visitors into segments, making website advertisement more efficient. Session HTTP Cookie
ss_cvt Squarespace Collects data on visitors. This information is used to assign visitors into segments, making website advertisement more efficient. Session HTTP Cookie
test_rudder RudderStack Pending 1 year HTTP Cookie
ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY Squarespace Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. Persistent HTML Local Storage
YtIdbMeta#databases Squarespace Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. Persistent IndexedDB
yt-remote-cast-available Squarespace Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-cast-installed Squarespace Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-connected-devices Squarespace Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Persistent HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-device-id Squarespace Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Persistent HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-fast-check-period Squarespace Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-session-app Squarespace Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session HTML Local Storage
yt-remote-session-name Squarespace Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video Session HTML Local Storage

Unclassified (2)

Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.

Name Provider Purpose Expiry Type
ss_cookieAllowed Squarespace Pending Session HTTP Cookie
user_segment Squarespace Pending Session HTTP Cookie

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Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

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