Cookies

Last updated 10 November 2026.

Auroute has no analytics, advertising or tracking cookies, and nothing on this website or the platform follows you to other sites. What we do keep in your browser is either needed for the service you asked for, such as staying signed in, or a choice you made, such as light or dark. The law does not ask for your consent to those, so there is no cookie banner. This page lists them all.

We do count visits to the website, without a cookie and without keeping anything in your browser: Privacy says how. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, your visits are not counted. You can also stop your visits being counted in this browser.

This covers auroute.uk (this website and the public network map) and app.auroute.uk (the platform that authorities sign in to).

The cookie

• aur_theme: light, dark or automatic, when you choose one, so the map and the platform look the same. Shared by auroute.uk and app.auroute.uk. Set only when you choose; lasts a year.

Kept in your browser on this website

These are kept in your browser's own storage, not sent to us with each visit, and stay until you clear your browser's data for the site.

• auroute.motion: whether you paused the animation.
• auroute.nocount: only if you ask for your visits not to be counted (the link above), so that we remember not to. Count them again takes it away.
• auroute.site.theme: light or dark for these pages.
• vt: which part of the opening animation you have seen, so it does not start again when you move between pages. Gone when you close the tab.
• nm. (several): how you like the network map: the base map, the area and the last place you looked at, the filters you switched off, which panels are open, and which of our two addresses it reaches us on.

Kept in your browser on the platform

Only for people who sign in. They end when you sign out or the sign-in expires, apart from your layout choices.

• aurouteDashboardToken, aurouteHaulierToken: keep you signed in (an authority user or a haulier).
• msal. (several): Microsoft's sign-in library keeps your account and sign-in tokens while you are signed in. Signing in also takes you to Microsoft, whose own cookies are covered by Microsoft's privacy statement.
• Sign-in steps (aurouteSignInBounce, aurouteAuthorityPostLoginRedirect and similar): where to take you back to after signing in. Gone when you close the tab.
• Your layout and choices (aurouteDashboardPrefs, wk., pr., pa., wo., db.skin, rvSkin, auroute.structure. and similar): the columns and rows you picked, folds open or closed, and the view you last used.
• Drafts (pa.step., wo.new, insp.new and similar): a permit application, works order or inspection you have started, until it is saved.
• Inspections on a phone (insp.): the route and streets for an inspection under way, and anything recorded with no signal, until it reaches us. Then it is removed.
• aurouteCouncilViewCacheV1: a copy of your area's outline, so pages open quickly.

Other sites the maps load from

Map pictures come from Ordnance Survey, Esri and Google, and your browser asks them directly. We do not ask them to set cookies. Any cookies of their own are covered by their privacy notices. Everything else the pages need comes from our own sites.

Clearing them

You can clear the cookie and everything else in your browser's settings, under site data. The site keeps working: it forgets your choices, and on the platform you sign in again.

Questions: admin@auroute.uk. The Privacy notice covers everything else we hold.