Wakefield Museums and Castles

Cookies policy

Information about our use of cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive or smartphone's operating system.

Third-party cookies

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

Google, Firefox, Edge / Internet Explorer.

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies:

Google

Firefox

Edge

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them:

Cookies enhance your experience using our website and help to personalise the service you receive.

Please see a full list of cookies we collect:

Necessary cookies

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Cookie duration – The duration of your browsing session.

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Cookie description - The Cookie Control cookie is a cookie that remembers user choices for a website's cookies. It's used by the Cookie Control JavaScript module from CIVIC UK.

Cookie duration - 90 days

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Cookie duration - 1 year

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Cookie description - This cookie is associated with Incapsula DDoS Protection and Web Application Firewall. Used to ensure requests by a client are sent to the same origin server.

Cookie duration - session

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Cookie duration - session

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Cookie description: This cookie is set by YouTube to keep track of user preferences for YouTube videos embedded in sites; it can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the YouTube interface.

Cookie duration: 6 months

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Cookie duration: 30 minutes

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Cookie duration - 3 months

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Cookie description - Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.

Cookie duration - 1 year, 1 month and 4 days

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Cookie description - Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors.

Cookie duration - 1 year, 1 month and 4 days

Cookie name: NID

Cookie description: This is a Google UserID cookie used to help track users across various portions of our website, understand how individuals use our website, what content they view, and to help improve website performance.

Cookie duration: 6 months

Session cookies

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Cookie duration - Session

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Cookie description: cookies are used by YouTube as part of their embedded services on the Websites (sharing etc.). More information about YouTube's use of cookies can be found in their cookie policy.

Cookie duration: Session

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Cookie duration: Session

More information

There are a number of different browsers and different versions of each browser which all act in different ways. You can visit the About Cookies website which provides information on how to delete and control cookies across a wide variety of browsers, including stopping cookies from being stored, enabling session cookies and deleting cookies if they have already been stored.

You will also find information for managing cookies stored on your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to manage cookies on the browser of your mobile phone, you will find further information in your handset manual.

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of this website.

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