Cookie Policy

Covid Connect NI – Belfast City Council

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site, such as the number of visitors. Most major websites use cookies.

Types of cookies used on our platform

Our own cookies, as well as third party cookies, are listed below. If you use our platform, you agree to our use of cookies.

'Strictly necessary' cookies

Some cookies on our platform are essential for us to be able to provide you with a service you have requested. If you prevent these cookies, via your browser for example, we can't predict how our platform will perform during your visit. Some services may stop working.

'Analytics' cookies

We use analytics cookies to help us understand how users engage with our platform. They also allow us to see which features are most popular and make them better, and remove the features that nobody uses. We would find it difficult to analyse how well our platform was performing and improve it without these cookies.

Information collected is only used to help us improve how our platform works.

We use 'analytics cookies' for recording things like:

the number of visitors to our platform
the type of device used to access our platform such as PC, mobile phone or iPad

These are considered non-essential cookies. Learn how to disable these cookies .

'Social sharing' cookies

We use cookies to allow you to share content directly to social networking sites such as Facebook. These are generally third party cookies set by external companies such as AddThis, Facebook and Twitter.

These are considered non-essential cookies. Learn how to disable these cookies .

List of our cookies

Strictly necessary cookies

Cookie	Name	What does this do?

Analytics cookies

Cookie	Name	What does this do?	More information
Google Analytics	_utmc _utma _utmz _utmb ga	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to analyse site usage, compile reports and help us to improve the site. The cookies collect information such as the number of visitors to the site and the pages they visited.	View Google Analytics privacy policy To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
SiteAnalyze	nmstat	This cookie is used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to analyse site usage, compile reports and help us to improve the site. The cookie collects information such as the number of visitors to the site and the pages they visited.

Third party cookies

Some of the cookies used on our platform are stored on your machine by third parties. We have no control over these cookies or how the third parties use them.

They are used to allow third party to provide a service to us. For more information on these cookies and how to disable them, please see the third party's individual privacy policy listed below.

Cookie	About the cookie	Name	More information
Xpand	This cookie is used to securely log you into the application and keep you logged in.	(Auth0)	View Xpand’s Cookie Statement (add link)

Disable all cookies

For information on how to disable all cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org

If you disabled all cookies on our platform, some services will not work properly, for example online forms.

More information

Useful information about cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org

If you have a query about our use of cookies, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

We may update this policy from time to time.