{"id":9151,"date":"2020-05-27T17:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fhug.org.uk\/kb\/?page_id=9151"},"modified":"2020-05-27T17:34:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T17:34:36","slug":"cookies-usage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fhug.org.uk\/kb\/cookies-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cookies Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"cookies_and_how_they_benefit_you\" class=\"sectionedit2\">Cookies and how they Benefit You<\/h2>\n<div class=\"level2\">\n<p>Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites<\/p>\n<p>Our cookies help us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Make our website work as you&#8217;d expect<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Save you having to login every time you visit the site<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Remember your settings during and between visits<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Improve the speed\/security of the site<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Personalise our site to you to help you get what you need faster<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Continuously improve our website for you<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We do not use cookies to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Pass data to advertising networks<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Pass personally identifiable data to third parties<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Pay sales commissions<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can learn more about all the cookies we use below<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"granting_us_permission_to_use_cookies\" class=\"sectionedit3\">Granting us permission to use cookies<\/h2>\n<div class=\"level2\">\n<p>If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"more_about_our_cookies\" class=\"sectionedit4\">More about our Cookies<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"website_function_cookies\" class=\"sectionedit5\">Website Function Cookies<\/h3>\n<h4 id=\"our_own_cookies\" class=\"sectionedit6\">Our own cookies<\/h4>\n<div class=\"level3\">\n<p>We use cookies to make our website work including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Determining if you are logged in or not<\/li>\n<li>Showing you which pages you have recently visited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"level3\">\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 18.2px;\">Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"level3\">\n<p>We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn&#8217;t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called &#8216;analytics&#8217; programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.<\/p>\n<p>We use: Google Analytics<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 id=\"turning_cookies_off\" class=\"sectionedit9\">Turning Cookies Off<\/h3>\n<div class=\"level3\">\n<p>You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our&#8217;s and a large proportion of the world&#8217;s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites<\/p>\n<p>It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called &#8220;spyware&#8221;. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.<\/p>\n<p>The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing\u00a0<a class=\"urlextern\" title=\"http:\/\/www.attacat.co.uk\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.attacat.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.attacat.co.uk\/<\/a>, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cookies and how they Benefit You Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. 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