Cookies

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use cookies for a few different reasons:

1. Strictly necessary cookies are essential to make the site work. Examples of  this are the cookies we need to make the donation and events registration forms work
2. Functional cookies improve your experience of the site, remembering your preferences, such as your accessibility settings, helping to make the site accessible to users with different needs.
3. Performance cookies are used to help improve the performance of our site and help us learn what works best so that we provide you with the best experience.
4. We use functionality from social websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google +1 to allow you to share content from our site on these social networks and use their functionality. These sites use third party functionality cookies to allow this to work.
5. We may also use third party behavioural advertising cookies to help make our advertising to you as relevant and useful as possible.  We use Google Analytics and Facebook cookies for tracking and remarketing purposes.

We use Facebook Custom Audiences to deliver interest-based advertisements to website visitors on Facebook based on email addresses that we have collected. You may learn more about Facebook Custom Audiences here. We use our Custom Audiences to create Lookalike Audiences allowing us to find people that are similar to existing customers through advertisement. This enables us to reach new potential supporters and increase brand awareness.

We use traffic log cookies on sites we build to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website however.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
• If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time and can contact us to let us know

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties.

Cookies used on our sites

How to manage cookies

Our cookies do not store financial information, or information which is capable of directly identifying you (such as your name or address). Cookies simply allow our website to retrieve this information in order to personalise and improve your experience of our website.

You can change your cookie preferences on this website by clicking the cookie symbol (pictured below) in the bottom left corner which will open our cookie banner.

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However, if you wish to restrict, block or delete cookies provided  any other website - you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different so check the ‘Help’ menu of your particular browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences, or use the following on your particular browser.

Firefox

1. Click on the ‘burger menu’ icon (three horizontal lines, one above each other), within Firefox - this is located to the right of the address bar
2. Select Preferences
3. Select the Privacy panel from within the pop up
4. From the History section, change the “Firefox will” drop down select and “Use custom settings for history
5. ”Un-check “Accept cookies from sites”
6. Click OK

Google Chrome

1. Click on the ‘burger menu’ icon (three horizontal lines, one above each other), within Chrome - this is located to the right of the address bar
2. Select “Settings”Client on the “Show advanced settings” link to unveil the additional settings
3. Click “Content Settings” in the “Privacy” section
4. A pop up will appear, and under the “Cookies” section select “Block sites from setting any data”

Internet Explorer

1. Click the gear-wheel icon in the top right corner of the browser
2. Click Internet Options
3. Navigate to the Privacy Tab
4. Set the slider to “High” or above
5. Click OK to confirm

Safari

1. Go to Safari Preferences (Cmd ,)
2. Click the “Privacy” icon
3. Choose “Cookies and website data” as “Always block”
4. Close window

Please bear in mind that if you do this, certain personalised features of this website and others cannot be provided to you.

Third Party Cookies

To help improve your experience of our site we use content from other sites to help users and improve usability for example Google Maps for store locators. We also use social sites such as Facebook and Twitter In to allow businesses to communicate with their clients along with analytics to help improve user experience. We don't control these sites and we suggest you read their cookie policy to see which ones they use and how to manage them.

Further information

If you wish to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org.