Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

A "cookie" is a piece of information that is stored in your browser to record your navigation of a website. When you revisit that website, the cookies help the site to present options to you based upon the stored information about your last visit. You can normally alter the settings of your browser to prevent acceptance of cookies.

Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to:

monitor site user traffic patterns and site usage. This helps us to understand how our users use our websites so that we can develop and improve the design, layout and functionality of the sites; and help us to show you information we think you will be interested in.

Cookies in our content:

some of the content on our site also uses cookies for similar purposes. This is the case, for example, when we use social media links.

The types of cookies are explained below:

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential to enable you to use the site effectively for donating to a cause and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our site cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or tracking where you have been on the internet. These include sessionid and csrftoken.

Performance cookies

These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our site. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular. We use Google analytics for this purpose (see later). All information these cookies collect will be aggregated and therefore remain anonymous. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor and will only be used to improve how our site works. These include __utma__utmb__utmc__utmz.

Functionality cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your having accepted our cookie policy, or having made a language choice) and provide enhanced features. The information these cookies collect is usually

Third Party Cookies

These allow use of third party services. These are the third party cookies we may set on some of our pages:

Google Analytics

Google analytics allows us to improve the performance of our software. Data about users is aggregated, and does not identify you personally.

Social Media Cookies

On pages where we provide a panel including social media links, cookies will be set from *.facebook.com, *.google.com, *.twitter.com, *linkedin.com, *instagram.com. These are used for tracking sessions, and improving the user experience. Some of them may be used to track the user across sites.

How to reject cookies

To reject cookies, read about how to adjust the privacy settings on your browser. Rejecting all cookies means that you will not be able to take full advantage of all our features. You can find more information about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org