What is a Cookie?
A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive which records how you move your way around a website. This can be used when you revisit a website to present tailored options based on your last visit, to analyse traffic to a website or for advertising or marketing purposes. Cookies are used by nearly all websites in one way or another.
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies:
a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date.
a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating settings on your browser. By not blocking cookies and continuing to browse, you authorise the use of cookies. If you use your browser settings to block all cookies, including essential cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
You can find out more about cookies, including what cookies have been set and how to manage them at www.allaboutcookies.org
What is a Tracking Pixel?
A tracking pixel (also called 1×1 pixel or pixel tag) is a graphic with dimensions of 1×1 pixels that is loaded when a user visits a website or opens an email, and is used to track certain user activities.
Our Use of Cookies
This website uses cookies. We use cookies to personalise content, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.
This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.
Your consent applies to the following domains: goodwinsandssos.org
Cookie declaration last updated on 16/06/2018.
Cookies that we use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the use of our website.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gdpr | goodwinsands.org.uk | Used to track allowed cookies and given consents for both logged in users and visitors. Generated by the “GDPR” plugin by Trew Knowledge. | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| cookie_notice_accepted | goodwinsands.org.uk | This cookie only ever contains the value “true” indicating that you clicked on the “OK” button showed in the overlay cookie notice. It contains no personal information. Its purpose is to remember that you have previously agreed on our use of cookies; so that it doesn’t have to remind you about cookies every time you visit the website. Generated by the “Cookie Notice for GDPR” plugin by dFactory. | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
The WordPress cookies in the list below are used and necessary if you have access and login to the website dashboard.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress_ | goodwinsands.org.uk | WordPress cookie for a logged in user. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| wordpress_logged_in | goodwinsands.org.uk | WordPress cookie for a logged in user. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| wordpress_test_cookie | goodwinsands.org.uk | WordPress test cookie. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| wp-settings-time- | goodwinsands.org.uk | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| wp-settings- | goodwinsands.org.uk | WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year | HTTP Cookie |
| PHPSESSID | goodwinsands.org.uk | To identify your unique session on the website. No personal data is stored in it. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
Performance cookies
These cookies allow us to anonymously track website statistics, including, page views, traffic source etc. We do this to track our most popular pages and how users move around the site in order to improve our website. We use Google Analytics, which uses first party cookies. The data collected is not shared with anyone else.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | goodwinsands.org.uk | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years | HTTP Cookie |
| _gat | goodwinsands.org.uk | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| _gid | goodwinsands.org.uk | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Session | HTTP Cookie |
| collect | google-analytics.com | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Session | Tracking Pixel |
Feature cookies
These cookies provide third-party features, such as live chat facilities.
We do not currently use any form of feature cookies.
Targeting cookies
These cookies collect information about you in order to deliver more targeted online advertisements. They are also used to measure the effectiveness of online advertisements and can limit the number of times a visitor sees a specific online advertisement. We do not use any form of targeting cookies.
Third Party cookies
When you visit our website, you may notice some cookies that are collecting information for other websites. For example, if you visit a page that has video content, cookies from YouTube may be served. We do not control the setting of these cookies and we recommend you visit those third party websites for more information. Details of the third party sites in use and links to their privacy policies can be found in our own privacy policy here: https://goodwinsands.org.uk/privacy-policy/
Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through a message on our website.