Cookie policy

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, mobile or tablet by websites that you visit. They help to make websites work or work better and allow us to recognise and remember you. A cookie often has a unique number that is used to recognise your computer. This helps to recognise your preferences or browsing behaviour when you return to a site.

Find out more about cookies.

In general, there are two types of cookie: first party cookies and third party cookies. These cookies include session cookies or persistent cookies.

First party cookies

These are sent from our website to your browser. This small file sits on your computer's hard drive, tablet or mobile device. They're used to recognise you when you come back to our website. They also remember your preferences as you browse the site.

Third party cookies

These are sent by other service providers we use. They are used to recognise your computer when you visit other websites. They're often used for website analytics or advertising.

Session and persistent cookies

• Session cookies get removed from your computer once you close your browser.
• Persistent cookies stay on your computer until their expiry date or you remove them.

We use first and third party cookies involving both session and persistent cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential for people to use our website and its features.

Leonardcheshire.org

•  SSESS########### first party cookie, lifespan: 23 days (persistent)
• OptanonConsent first party cookie, lifespan: 23 days (persistent)
• OptanonAlertBoxClosed first party cookie, lifespan: 365 days (persistent)

OneTrust

OneTrust is a third party site we use to manage your cookies permission.

For more information, read OneTrust's cookie notice.

Cookie used

• OptanonConsent - first party cookie, lifespan: 364 days (persistent)
• OptanonAlertBoxClosed - first party cookie, lifespan: 364 days (persistant)

Performance cookies

These cookies collect information about how people make use of the site. For example, which pages people visit the most and how people use our website. Performance cookies do not collect personally identifiable information.

Google Analytics (GA)

GA is a web analytics service provided by Google. We use GA to improve and measure the effectiveness of our website. We may use these cookies to serve advertisements to people who have visited areas of our site. We may also use them to exclude audiences from advertising.

If you have opted into Google's data privacy policy, Google will link your IP address with other data they hold. This is used to identify you across many devices. You may refuse the use of cookies by choosing the appropriate settings on your browser.

To stop sending these details to Google, install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Cookies used

• __ga - first party cookie, lifespan: 729 days (persistent)
• gclxxxx - first party cookie, lifespan: 399 days (persistent)
• utm_campaign - first party cookie, lifespan: 0 days (session)
• utm_medium - first party cookie, lifespan:0 days (session)

For more information, read Google's Privacy Policy.

Hotjar

We use Hotjar to analyse web page performance and identify problems our site users may be experiencing.

Cookies used

• _hjSessionUser_1468604 – first party cookie, lifespan: 364 days (persistent)
• _hjSession_1468604 - first party cookie, lifespan: 0 days (persistent)
• _hjTLDTest - first party cookie, lifespan: 0 days (session)

Dotdigital

If you receive emails from us you will be accessing Dotdigital. Dotdigital uses tracking technologies so we can see to whether emails have been opened and links clicked on to determine the effectiveness of our campaigns. You can unsubscribe from the mailing list by clicking the link in the newsletter.

For more information, read Dotdigital's cookie policy.

Cookies used

• dmSessionID – first party cookie, lifespan: 0 days (session)
• recordID – first party cookie, lifespan: 364 days (persistent)

Targeting cookies

These cookies collect information about site visitor browsing habits. This may include your use of social media sites or how you interact with our website. This means you may see relevant content elsewhere on the internet. These cookies may be used to show you content such as advertising banners.

YouTube

YouTube set cookies when you visit a page on which we have embedded a YouTube video. They manage the quality of video playback based on your connection and records what you watch. 

Read how you can control your data on YouTube. 

Cookies used

• VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA - third party cookie, lifespan: 179 days (persistent)
• _Secure-* - third party cookie, lifespan: seconds (session)
• YSC - third party cookie, lifespan: seconds (session)

You can amend your cookie preferences at any time on our site by selecting the green cookie icon at the bottom left-hand corner of your screen.

Certain services are only activated by the presence of a cookie and, if you choose to refuse cookies, particular features of our website may not be available to you. You will be given an opportunity to re-confirm your preferences on a periodical basis.

If you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

In addition to managing your cookies through the cookie settings on leonardcheshire.org, most browsers also allow you to refuse cookies within their respective settings.

See the below instructions for blocking cookies via the browser:

• Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Edge
• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Safari

Please note: Blocking certain cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of the website and may limit or prevent using the website’s features.

You can also delete cookies already stored on your computer via your web browsers settings.

See the below instructions for deleting cookies via the browser:

• Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Edge
• Firefox
• Google Chrome
• Safari