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Cookie Policy

About cookies

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at  www.allaboutcookies.org and 
www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensur e that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
The cookies used on this website have been categorised based on the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie guide. A list of the types of cookies used on this website by category is set out below.

How we use cookies

We use cookies on some parts of the site for the following purposes: 

Our content management system, WordPress, use cookies for the purposes of authentication, and which persist for less than two months. Our membership management system, CiviCRM, uses session-based cookies that do not persist. We use Higher Logic for our Online Community platform, where cookies are used to manage member sign in activity on our products. Users must have third-party cookies enabled in their browser for passive authentication to work across domains. 

We use Google Analytics which places cookies on this site. These cookies do not collect personal information. With these analytical cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. 

We embed some videos on our site from our official YouTube and Vimeo channels.YouTube and Vimeo use cookies to help maintain the integrity of video statistics and prevent fraud. 

Third party cookies and related technologies 

Provider  Purpose  Further information 
Google Analytics 

 

This collects information about how visitors use the website, to be able to compile reports and make improvements to better meet our users’ needs. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.  Google Analytics data and privacy information 

 

Opt out add-on for Google Analytics 

 

YouTube  YouTube uses cookies to help maintain the integrity of video statistics and prevent fraud. 

 

We embed some videos on our site from our official YouTube channel; when we do this, we aim to use the privacy-enhanced mode which means YouTube will not set a cookie unless a user clicks to play the video. YouTube cookies contain the count of views of embedded videos. 

 

YouTube privacy enhanced mode information 

 

 

What are your choices regarding cookies 

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. 

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly. 

Changes to our Cookie Policy

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page.

The cookie policy was last updated on 1st November 2024.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at privacy@ke.org.uk