Amy Falla
Cookies Policy
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.
The information that cookies provide also helps us to communicate effectively with our supproters, and monitor how well our digital adverts are doing.
We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected, and this website respects any consent you have given via our ‘Manage Cookies’ page, or the cookie banner which is displayed at the bottom of the page when you visit our website. This Cookies Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal information.
If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy, please feel free to contact us at data@suffolkwildlifetrust.org.
What are cookies?
Cookies are a digital "breadcrumb trail" that contain details of your browsing history, distinguish you from other users, and remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information.
Cookies make our website function in more user friendly and effective ways, and help to tailor the website operations to your needs and preferences, analyse website usage, and generally improve your online user experience.
Cookies don't store or collect personal information about you (like your name or address), but they collect information related to:
- The devices you use to access the internet
- Your browsers you use to access the internet
- Your internet browsing history
Cookies are widely used to make websites work better for visitors, and to give information to the owners of the site.
You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.
Tags
Alongside cookies, we use tags to transfer data from our users to external sources like Facebook. We use them to track:
- How you interact with our websites and digital adverts (for example, when you’ve downloaded content, clicked on an advert or viewed a video)
- What pages you visit on our website
- How long you spent on those pages
- How you got to our website and when you left it
We use this information to monitor how well our digital adverts are doing.
How we use cookies
We use cookies on the websites to:
- Help users navigate around the website
- Work out whether the website is working well
- Gather statistics on how our website is being used (including, for example, to see which pages of the website are the most popular and how users are interacting with them), which can help us to improve it
- Analyse how individuals interact with us so we can improve our services
- Personalise the service we offer by working out which areas of the website are most relevant to you
- Allow our advertising partners to show you content on other sites based on how you use our website
We also use cookies to make sure we keep your information confidential and secure as you move through secure or password-protected areas of our website.
The cookies that we use can have different characteristics. For example:
- Session Cookies: these cookies only exist during your time on our website. They will be activated when you visit the website (if you've accepted them) and deleted when you close your browser.
- Persistent Cookies: these cookies stay on your browser or device until they expire or until you delete them from your browser history.
All cookies have an owner. You can identify the owner by looking at the domain. The domain is the company or website name in the cookie.
Cookies can be first-party, which means that they’re owned by the website who set them.
Alternatively, cookies can be third-party. This means they’re not owned by the website who set them. We use both first-party and third-party cookies on our websites.
If you haven’t given us permission to set cookies through the cookies banner, we can't track your visit and how you got here.
If you visit our website using a different device or browser in the future, you'll need to set your cookie preferences again.
Managing cookies
You can control which cookies are set on your device by clicking on ‘Manage cookies' on our cookies banner. There is also software available which enables you to use settings that allow to you choose which cookies are set on your digital device.
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 used 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.
| Name | Purpose | Typical content | Expires |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Cookie Provider | Purpose | Cookie | Policy Provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | IDE, _ga, _gat, _gat_UA-xxxxxxx-xx, _gid | ||
| Stripe | Used for making card transactions on the website. Provided by Stripe.com which allows online transactions without storing any credit card information. | __stripe_mid, __stripe_sid | Stripe |
| Hotjar | Anonymously analyses how the website is being used to improve the user experience. | _hjSessionUser_xxxxxx, _hjFirstSeen, _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress, _hjIncludedInSessionSample, _hjSession_xxxxxxx, _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Hotjar |
| Ecwid | When you visit Ecwid.com, Ecwid’s servers send a cookie to your computer. Standing alone, cookies do not identify you. They merely recognize your Web browser. Unless you choose to identify yourself to Ecwid, either by responding to a promotional offer, opening an account, or filling out a Web form, you remain anonymous to Ecwid. If you have your browser set to reject cookies the forms may not work correctly. | suffolkwildlifetrust.org/shop | Ecwid Privacy Policy |
| Wufoo | This is a session ID cookie used identify unique visitors completing forms on our site. If you have your browser set to reject cookies the forms may not work correctly | wildlifetrusts40 | Wufoo privacy policy |
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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