Cookie Policy
If you use our website, we may use cookies to:
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website. If you use our website, we may use cookies to:
- Track your use of the site;
- Recognise you whenever you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the site as you do not have to log on each time);
- Obtain information about your preferences, online movements and use of the internet;
- Carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our visitor/customer requirements and interests
- Target our marketing and advertising campaigns more effectively
- Make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable
If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to: www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org
If you visit our website when your browser is set to accept cookies, we will interpret this as an indication that you consent to the use of cookies. This includes cookies that are essential in order to enable you to move around the site and use its features and cookies that are not essential but gather information about your use of the site.
If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.
For more information, please see our separate Cookie Policy.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have various rights under the GDPR, including the following rights:
- Right to object: If we are using your data because we deem it necessary for our legitimate interests to do so, and you do not agree, you have the right to object. We will respond to your request within 30 days (although we may be allowed to extend this period in certain cases). Generally, we will only disagree with you if certain limited conditions apply.
- Right to withdraw consent: Where we have obtained your consent to process your personal data for certain activities (for example, providing you with services), or consent to market to you, you may withdraw your consent at any time.
- Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR): Just so it's clear, you have the right to ask us to confirm what information we hold about you at any time, and you may ask us to modify, update or delete such information. At this point we may comply with your request or, additionally do one of the following:
- we may ask you to verify your identity, or ask for more information about your request; and
- where we are legally permitted to do so, we may decline your request, but we will explain why if we do so.
- Right to erasure: In certain situations (for example, where we have processed your data unlawfully), you have the right to request us to "erase" your personal data. We will respond to your request within 30 days (although we may be allowed to extend this period in certain cases) and will only disagree with you if certain limited conditions apply.
- Right of data portability: If you wish, you have the right to transfer your data from us to another data controller. We will help with this – either by directly transferring your data for you, or by providing you with a copy in a commonly used machine-readable format.
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority, details of which can be found below.
To exercise any of your rights concerning your information, please send an email to the following address:
Or write to us at the following postal address:
Boston Borough Council, Municipal Buildings, West Street, Boston, Lincolnshire, PE21 8QR.
We may ask you to provide us with proof or your identity. Please do not be offended; this may occur even if we know you. It is a requirement of the GDPR in some cases.
REVIEW
This Policy was last reviewed in November 2021.
THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE
More information about privacy laws can be found at www.ico.org.uk
Details of your local supervisory authority: The Information Commissioner's Office. You can contact them in the following ways:
- Phone: 0303 123 1113
- Email: casework@ico.org.uk
- Live chat, via the ICO website
- Post: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF
COOKIES USED BY OUR SITE
ESSENTIAL COOKIES
WEB SITE
These cookies are used to store anonymous user-specific data in order to maintain a session state for the visitor. Our site uses this data to process requests, such as submitting a Contact Us enquiry or Events Submission. Some functions of the site depend on these cookies and may not work properly, or at all if they are disabled.
Name
Where is it used?
Typical content
Expires
visitlincoln_tracker
All pages
Contains the last 5 pages you have viewed on our site. This is essential for displaying error and thank you messages when completing forms on our site, such as the Contact Us form.
End of session.
visitlincoln_last_visit
All pages
The Date of your last visit to our site.
1 year
visitlincoln_last_activity
All pages
Records the time of the last page you viewed on our site.
1 year
visitlincoln_cookies_allowed
All pages
Indicates whether you have given for cookies to be set on our site.
1 year
__hs_opt_out
All pages
Used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask visitors to accept cookies again.
13 months
__hs_do_not_track
All pages
Set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to Visit Lincoln's HubSpot.
13 months
__hs_initial_opt_in
All pages
Used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode.
7 days
__hs_cookie_cat_pref
All pages
Used to record the categories a visitors consented to.
13 months
hs_ab_test
All pages
Used to consistently serve visitors the same versions of an A/B test page they've seen before.
End of the session
<id>_key
All pages
When visiting a password-protected page, this cookie is set so future visits to the page from the same browser do not require login again.
14 days
__hsmen
All pages
This cookie is set when visitors log in to a HubSpot-hosted site. It contains encrypted data that identifies the membership user when they are currently logged in.
1 year
PERFORMANCE COOKIES
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
These cookies are used to identify new and returning visitors to our site, how long visitors stay on our site and how they reached our site. The results are sent to our Google Analytics account so we can understand how visitors arrive at our website and how long they stay for. To prevent Google Analytics cookies being set, you may install the https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Name
Where is it used?
Typical content
Expires
__utma
All pages
Created upon your first visit to our website using a randomly generated number. This cookie is used to determine unique visitors to our website.
2 years from set/update
__utmb
All pages
Created to establish your user session on our site, using a randomly generated number. When you view a page on our site, this cookie is updated to expire in 30 minutes.
30 minutes from set/update
__utmz
All pages
This cookie stores the way in which you reached our site, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a site search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link. It is used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page navigation within our site. The cookie is updated each time you view a page on our site.
6 months from set/update
__hstc
All page
The main cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp (first visit), last timestamp (last visit), current timestamp (this visit), and session number (increments for each subsequent session).
13 months
hubspotuk
All page
This cookie keeps track of a visitor's identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. It contains an opaque GUID to represent the current visitor.
13 months
__hssc
All pages
This cookie keeps track of sessions and is used to determine if HubSpot should increment the session number and timestamps in the __hstc cookie.
30 minutes
__hssrc
All pages
Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. It contains the value "1" when present.
End of the session.
FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES
GOOGLE TRANSLATE
Google Translate sets two cookies through our website. These are third-party cookies that would register on other websites that check for the existence of a translate cookie.
Name
Where is it used?
Typical content
Expires
NID
All pages
The cookie stores the translation preference.
When you close your browser
PREF
All pages
This is the Google cookie containing: ID - a browser identifier; TM - a timestamp of when the cookie was created; LM - a timestamp of when the browser preferences were last changed; S - a digital signature generated by Google which works in combination with page address settings. On the Google books site for example, it is used to only show you a few pages of the book from the page you started reading.
2 years from set/update
ShareThis
Many of our pages include a ShareThis button, which allows you to share our content via email, Twitter, Facebook etc. These cookies enable that service to work smoothly.
Name
Where is it used?
Typical content
Expires
_stid
All pages
A random unique identifier and is used to associated users with topics of interest, based upon the content they consume and share.
Unknown
_uset
All pages
Used to indicate when a user has been cookied so that the task is not repeated in the next 8 hours.
Expires after 8 hours
_unam
All pages
Counts number of unique users that share content and how many page views are generated from the resulting share.
Unknown