Cookie Policy
Using cookies is a really common practice and helps us to give you the best experience possible on our websites.
Cookies
When you use our website, we place a small text file called a ‘cookie’ (made up of letters and numbers) on your computer, tablet or mobile phone’s storage device. Using cookies is a really common practice and helps us to give you the best experience possible on our websites. Cookies are completely harmless and can’t be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
Find out more about cookies on the Information Commissioner’s Officer (ICO) website.
Use of cookies on our website
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
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Name
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Format
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Expires
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Reason
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ckmsg
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Numeric String
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6 months
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Cookie message to user
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__utma
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Numeric String
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2 years
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Google Analytics
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__utmb
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Numeric String
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30 minutes
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Google Analytics
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__utmc
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Alphanumeric String
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Session
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Google Analytics
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__utmz
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Alphanumeric String
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6 months
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Google Analytics
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__utmz
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Alphanumeric String
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2 years
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Add This Share Widget
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Third party cookies
We sometimes embed content from different websites such as Add This and Twitter. Pages with this embedded content may present cookies from these websites. Similarly, when you use one of the share buttons on our website, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. You should check the relevant third party website for more information about these cookies.
How to manage cookies
If you wish to restrict, block or delete cookies from our website – or any other website – you can use your browser to do this. Each browser is different so check the ‘Help’ menu of your particular browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. You can click on the available support links from the “managing your cookies” tab below.
Please bear in mind that if you do this, certain personalised features of this website cannot be provided to you.
We also use pixels on our website, which are snippets of code that allow cookies to be downloaded to your device. These pixel tags identify a device as it browses different websites, partly so that targeted adverts can be shown to the user. SESS don’t receive any identifiable data from pixels. If you disable cookies, your visit to sesscouts.org.uk website will register as an anonymous visit.
We use website analytics tools such as Google Analytics to understand how you interact with the sesscouts.org.uk website, which allows us to understand how we can improve the experience you have using the site. The data collected on you via Google Analytics are anonymous and does not contain personally identifiable information. The data we collect on you from our website includes:
Technical information:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address – whilst an IP address is defined as personal data under data privacy law (Data Protection Act 2018), we do not combine this with other data sets that would further identify an individual to that IP address
- Browser type and version
- Time zone setting
- Browser plug-in types, versions, operating systems and platforms
Information about your visit to the website:
- Pages viewed
- Time spent on each page viewed
- Referring site statistics:
- The website (URI) the user came through in order to arrive at this website (example: clicking on a hyperlink from Yahoo.com that took the user to this website)
- Search engine query used (example: typing in a phrase into a search engine like Google, and clicking on a link from that search engine)
- Usage of site search, including search terms
- External website links clicked on our pages
- Page interaction, including:
- Video plays
- Page scrolling depth
- Clicks on links and buttons
- Clickstream through different pages on the website
- How you navigate through the website
Information about you:
- Geo location (City, Country and Continent)
- Google Analytics collects this automatically from your IP address. We cannot see your exact location or postcode.
- Age & Gender
- Google Analytics collects this information via third-party cookies including the DoubleClick cookie, Android Advertising ID and iOS Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA). Your age and gender are stored in the third party cookies based on information you provide in profiles created for these Apps or Browsers. See these resources to learn how to opt-out of DoubleClick, Android Advertising ID and iOS Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA).
- Browsing and purchasing interests
- Google Analytics collects this information via third-party cookies including the DoubleClick cookie, Android Advertising ID and iOS Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA). These cookies record user browsing and purchasing activities and create In-Market Segments and Affinity Categories that categorise the users’ interests based on their browsing and purchasing history – for example, Technophiles, Sports Fans, and Cooking Enthusiasts. Learn more about Google Analytics Interest reporting. See these resources to learn how to opt-out of DoubleClick, Android Advertising ID and iOS Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA).
We also collect data about you indirectly from third parties. If you click on a Scouts advert on a website or social media platform (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube or Twitter) which leads you to our website, these platforms may share your data with us. We use this data to understand how our advertising and website performs, and in some instances advertise to you on other websites (e.g. Facebook) about things that might be of interest to you.
The data we gather on you, through our website and third parties are collected and stored by cookies.
Remarketing
SESS website may share your personal data with remarketing services – including Facebook, Google Adwords and Google Analytics – to serve our adverts to you on third party websites. Third-party vendors, including Facebook and Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to sesscouts.org.uk.
You’re able to view and delete the cookies stored on your computer/laptop, tablet or mobile phone and if you want to you can prevent cookies from being stored on your device in the future. Information about how to do this can be found in your internet browser’s ‘Help’ pages, or alternatively find out more about how to control your cookies on the ICO’s website.
Managing cookies in your browser
You can control which types of cookies you allow in your web browser. You can turn cookies on or off using your browser’s settings. You can also remove cookies and clear your browser’s history.
The following links describe how you can change your cookie settings in the popular browsers:
