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Cookies policy
Policy Updated: 21/5/2024
Our use of cookies
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you'd expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
We do NOT use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
- You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
There are two types of cookie you may encounter when using this site:
First party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site.
Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site.
First party cookies
This site uses cookies in several places – we’ve listed each of them below with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.
Cookies set by this website
| Name | Purpose | Typical content | Expires |
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| SESSxxxID | Authentication session to prevent having to login multiple times in one browser session. This is only set if you authenticate via the site. This may happen if you purchase items from the shop or make use of our commenting | A unique id that ties the current session to a database settings table | One week |
| cookieconsent_dismissed | This cookie collects information about whether or not the user has agreed to cookies. | Yes/No | 70 years 6 months |
Third party cookies
We use a number of suppliers who may also set cookies on their websites’ on its behalf. This site does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third party websites for more information about these.
| Provider | Name | Purpose | More info |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics |
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Google Privacy Policy |
| M.Stripe.com and M.Stripe. network | This cookie is necessary for making credit card transactions on the website. The service is provided by Stripe.com which allows online transactions without storing any credit card information. |
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| Facebook.com |
Used by Facebook for sharing content, conversion tracking, optimisation, creating audiences for Facebook Ads and marketing. |
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/ | |
| Hotjar |
Anonymously analyses how the website is being used to improve the user experience. |
Cookies on hotjar.com – Hotjar Documentation | |
| Eventbrite |
Used to deliver event booking services and content tailored to the user’s interests. |
Eventbrite Privacy Policy | Eventbrite Help Centre | |
| Paypal | Used to support payment services | Statement on Cookies and Tracking Technologies (paypal.com) | |
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Used to understand website usage including how users found and explored our site and how their experience can be enhanced. Google also provides campaign tracking, advertising and website functionality services. |
How Google uses cookies – Privacy & Terms – Google | ||
| Vimeo | Used to embed videos from Vimeo using cookies that we consider essential to the video player experience. Does not use third-party analytics or advertising cookies. | Vimeo Cookie Policy | |
| Engaging Networks |
Purpose: Maintains a user’s browsing session on the website when participating with our online campaigning activities. |
Company Policies - Engaging Networks | |
| New Relic | Anonymously maintains a user’s browsing session on the website to allow us to monitor and troubleshoot website performance | Cookie Table (newrelic.com) | |
| You Tube |
We use YouTube API services to display video across our website. By using our website, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service. |
https://www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_uk/howyoutubeworks/our-commitments/pro…
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Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
We also use data such as email for tracking purposes. Hashed data is used to create targeted advertising for our fundraising and campaigning activities on social media and web platforms.
Hashing means that data such as email addresses are turned into unreadable codes for security and privacy during data transfer. We delete the hashed data after a short period of time and it's not used for any other purpose.
This helps us reach and inspire new people to take meaningful action for nature and to create an inclusive society where nature matters. It's both cost-effective and helps us grow support for wildlife.
If you opt into Marketing Cookies when using our website we will employ Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC. We also employ Google Ads conversion tracking, Google remarketing and Google Signals, all of which are services offered by Google.
We implement Google Analytics to track, monitor and report on websiite traffic. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to analyse and enhance our website based on how people use it and their behaviour on the website.
Google Ads conversion tracking and Google Ads remarketing employ cookies and similar technologies to measure the performance of our advertising and to display personalised advertising messages on websites collaborating with Google. This helps us to efficiently reach people to support our work and protect wildlife for the future.
Google Signals, integrated with Google Analytics, creates data reports from multiple platforms or devices from people who are signed into their Google accounts, but only if they have enabled personalised advertising within their account. This information may include a person’s location, search history, YouTube history and data from sites that partner with Google. It is used to provide aggregated and anonymous insights into behaviours across more than one device.
You can opt out of Google Analytics Advertising Features through various settings and tools provided by Google including from within your Google account settings, ad settings for mobile apps, Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on and NAI’s consumer opt-out. For more information, please refer to Google Privacy Controls. https://safety.google/privacy/privacy-controls/ To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout