Websitecookie policy

Read about what cookies this website uses and their uses

Website tracking and Cookies

Our websites use cookies and other digital tracking technologies to help them work well and to find out how people are using them. For the purposes of our Privacy Policy, the term ‘Cookies’ covers all types of tracking technologies including, but not limited to Cookies, Spotlight Tags and Web Beacons, each of which is described below.

Cookie: a small text file that is placed on your computer or mobile device when you access our websites. This allows the website to recognise your device and store information about your preferences and actions.

Spotlight tag: records access to a website as part of online advertising. Spotlight tags allow us to track, measure and report on activities that happen on our website after you see or click on an ad. These tags allow us to measure the effectiveness of our online marketing campaigns. These files are provided to us by our Ad Partners and organisations such as DoubleClick. For more information about DoubleClick please visit doubleclick.net.

Web beacon: an invisible graphic that is placed on a website or in an email and used to monitor the behaviour of the user visiting the website or sending the email. When you open an HTML email that we have sent you, this graphic is downloaded from a web server and generates a record showing that the email was opened, how many times it was forwarded (if any) and which links within the email were clicked. Access the MailChimp website to find out more information.

Website tracking

For all areas of our websites which collect personal information, we follow best practice for web and data security. Although we cannot 100% guarantee the security of any information you give us, we enforce strict procedures and security features to protect your information and prevent unauthorised access.

Our websites contain links to other websites belonging to third parties and we sometimes choose to participate in social networking sites including but not limited to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. We may also include content from sites such as these on our website, but we don’t have control of the privacy practices of these other sites. You should make sure that when you leave our site you have read and understood that site’s privacy policy in addition to our own.

We use cookies to help track the success of our online advertising and monitor how people use our websites, to monitor the success of different email communications and for our web analytics. We also gather information such as pages most visited, the events or activities of most interest and products borrowed and purchased, to help improve our website and activities.

Wherever possible, we will keep this information anonymous so that it will not identify you as an individual visitor to our websites.

Cookies

GOSH Charity uses different types of Cookies to accomplish the tracking described above and these are summarised below. Please click below to go to the Cookie Preference Centre and find out more about what these cookies do and which may be in use on your device.

Essential Cookies

These are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site may not work properly if you do. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and can help us identify issues with the website. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Functional Cookies

These enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages.

Social Media Cookies

These are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests.

Targeting Cookies

These may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.

All but essential cookies require your consent to be placed on your device, and you will be asked if you would like to consent the first time you visit our website, and every 12 months thereafter through our cookie banner. You can change your preference at any time by clicking below to go to the Cookie Preference Centre.

Cookie Preferences

You can disable Essential Cookies using your browser settings. Details of how to do this are listed below.