Welcome to the Hope and Aid Direct Cookies Policy, which sets out details of the cookies that Sub2 Technologies Limited (“Sub2” or “we”) or third parties use on the https://www.hopeandaiddirect.org.uk/ website (the “Site”)
This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we partner with may use cookies on the Site, and your choices regarding cookies. Please read this Cookies Policy in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which sets out additional details on how we use personally identifiable information and your various rights.
What are cookies
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Site or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Site more useful to you. Cookies allow Hope and Aid Direct to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience on our Site.
How Hope and Aid Direct uses cookies
The cookies that are used on our site fall into the following categories:
Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that authenticate user and allow us to offer Site features.
Analytical/performance cookies: These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our Site and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our Site, how they reached our Site, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our Site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on our Site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our Site.
Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This information will be used by us and third parties to make our Site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
These are the cookies that we use on our Site, and their purposes:
We work with Sub2 Technologies Limited ("Sub2") in relation to digital display and other advertising services for our website. Sub2 works with third party advertising networks to let them know when to use cookies via our website. When cookies are used and stored on your device, data from these cookies is processed by Sub2 and by their third party advertising partners to serve you with advertising that is relevant to you, based on your previous browsing habits. The data is also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as to help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. For further details about Sub2 and the third party advertising cookies that Sub2 facilitates via our website, please click here.
Third-party cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also allow third parties (for example, web traffic analysis services) to use cookies on the Site, over which we have no control.
The third party cookies used on our site are as follows:
Provider
Google
Cookie
_ga, _gat_gid
Description
These are analytics cookies that allow the Site to identify unique users, identify unique sessions and store information about user sessions.
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 some or all of the features we offer.
You may not be able to log in, store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
Date last updated: 29 May 2018
