How We Use Cookies.
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How We Use Cookies
The Bath Cancer Unit Support Group works hard to comply with the law in relation to cookies and similar technologies.
We use cookies and similar technologies on our websites and in emails to personalise content and digital advertising, provide social media features and analyse traffic. This policy refers to both 'cookies' and 'similar technologies' as cookies.
You can accept all the cookies that we use by clicking on the 'Accept Cookies' button displayed on our cookie banner. If you’d rather decide what cookies are set, you can choose your preferences by clicking on 'Cookie Settings'.
Cookies, Web beacons, Pixels & Tags
Cookies are small files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Your browser sends these cookies back to the website every time you visit the site again, so it can recognise you. This allows websites to tailor what you see on the screen.
Web beacons are websites, apps and emails often contain tiny graphics, each with a unique identifier that are embedded invisibly on sites and in emails. Web beacons allow us to know if a certain page was visited or if ad banners on our sites known as "web beacons" or "tracking pixels" are effective.
We also use web beacons in our HTML-based emails to let us know whether our emails have been opened by recipients, which helps us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications, promotions, and our campaigns.
Pixels are small objects embedded into a web page that are not visible to the user. We use pixels to deliver cookies to your computer, facilitate the log-in process, monitor the activity on our sites, and deliver online advertising with our advertising partners such as Google AdWords.
Tags are small pieces of HTML code that tell your browser to request certain content generated by an ad server. We use tags to show you relevant advertising and promotions.
Device identifiers &Tracking URLs
We use device identifiers on mobile devices in the same way as cookies are used on web browsers. A device identifier is a unique number on your device which allows us to remember your device.
Tracking links are web links that will allow us to measure when a link is clicked on. They help us measure the effectiveness of campaigns and advertising and the popularity of articles that are read.
Session, Persostent, First party, & Third party Cookies
Session cookies enable sites to recognise and link the actions of a user during a browsing session and expire at the end of each session. In the list below, where there is no lifespan given, these are session cookies (apart from the Strictly Necessary Cookies).
Persistent cookies help us recognize you as an existing user and these cookies are stored on your system or device until they expire, although you can delete them before the expiration date. Expiry dates are set out in the list of cookies below under ‘lifespan’.
First party cookies are owned by us and delivered by us to your computer. They are often used to recognise your computer when it revisits our site and to remember your preferences as you browse our site.
Third party cookies are owned and set by a third-party partner or supplier on our behalf and may be used by that third party to recognise your computer when you visit other websites. Third party cookies are mostly used for website analytics or advertising purposes and some of these third parties may be based in the UK, EU and elsewhere in the world including the USA.
Third party cookies will be listed and categorised accordingly along with our first-party cookies. However, unlike first-party cookies, we are unable to offer you control of some third-party cookies within our cookie consent tool. This most commonly occurs where another company’s content is embedded within our website, and includes:
YouTube - YouTube's cookies policy
Twitter - Twitter's privacy policy
Facebook - Facebook privacy policy
Stripe - privacy policy
Fundraise Up - privacy policy
PayPal - privacy policy
Google - privacy policy
Cookies may collect
Cookies may collect the following types of information:
- IP address
- The country, region, city and/or borough associated with your IP address or device
- Device ID
- Browser type
- Operating system
- Internet Service Provider
- Areas of the website you visit
- Amount of time you
- spend / donate on the website
- Whether you have responded to, or interacted with an advertisement
- How you came to our website. For example, through an email link or a search engine
- Features used and activities engaged in on our websites. For example, how you interact with our donation and sign up forms, what you select as your communication preferences
- Whether you are new to the website, or have visited it before
- How you use the website and the quality of your experience. For example, we may track your bandwidth when viewing videos
- Any error messages that you receive on the website
Cookie list & settings
A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information.
Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different from the domain of the website you are visiting today – for our advertising and marketing efforts.
More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies to view our current cookies. Please click on the floating blue icon on the left hand side of your screen.
If you haven’t given permission for us to set cookies through the cookies banner that popped up when you first visited this site, your visit (and how you got here) won’t be tracked by us. However, if you visit this site using a different device and/browser in the future, you will need to provide us with your cookie preferences again.
Delete cookie history
Some web browsers may transmit "do-not-track" signals to sites with which the browser communicates. Participants in the leading Internet standards-setting organization that is addressing this issue are in the process of determining what, if anything, sites should do when they receive such signals. We currently do not take action in response to these signals. If and when a final standard is established and accepted, we will reassess our sites’ responses to these signals and make appropriate updates to this Cookies Notice.
Find out how to manage your cookies on the following internet browsers:
Contacting us about cookies
If you are uncertain about anything in our Cookie Policy please contact us using our online contact form here, or write to us at: Bath Cancer Unit Support Group, 19A Westwood Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire BA14 9BR.