Cookie Policy

Torfaen Family Information Service puts small files (known as 'cookies') onto your computer to collect and store information about how you use the website, such as the pages you visit.

Find out more about the cookies we use, what they’re for and when they expire.

Functional Cookies

Name: CookieControl
Description: Stores user consent preferences for your website
Retention Period: 3 months

Name: __cf_bm
Description: Cloudflare's bot products identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect your site from bad bots. Cloudflare places the __cf_bm cookie on End User devices that access Customer sites that are protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode. The __cf_bm cookie is necessary for the proper functioning of these bot solutions
Retention Period: 30 minutes

Name: _cfuvid
Description: The _cfuvid cookie is only set when a site uses this option in a Rate Limiting Rule, and is only used to allow the Cloudflare WAF to distinguish individual users who share the same IP address.
Retention Period: Session

Analytics Cookies

Name: _ga
Description: ID used to identify users
Retention Period: 1 year

Name: _ga_*
Description: Used to identify and track an individual user session
Retention Period: 1 year

Marketing Cookies

Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Description: Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. Also used for marketing
Retention Period: 6 months

Name: YSC
Description: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen
Retention Period: Session

Name: VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA
Description: YouTube visitor privacy metadata cookie
Retention Period: 6 months

Name: __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN
Description: YouTube
Retention Period: 6 months