Cookies are small data files that websites place on your computer, laptop, or mobile device. We use the term cookie to describe cookies and similar technologies such as tags and pixels.
We use cookies to:
Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They are necessary for the safety, security, and integrity of the site. For example, they help support the structure of the pages that are displayed to you, help to improve navigation, and allow you to return to pages you have previously visited. This type of cookie only lasts for the duration of the time you are visiting the website. When you leave the website, they are deleted automatically.
Performance cookies or analytical cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. The data is grouped together and anonymised, which means we cannot identify you as an individual. Some of the performance cookies we use include (but are not limited to) Google Analytics.
Functionality cookies: These recognise you when you return to our website. They enable us to remember your preferences (for example, your choice of region). These cookies will remain on your device until you choose to clear them. If you choose to do this, you will need to enter your details each time you visit the site.
Flash cookies: Adobe uses a particular type of cookie called a Local Shared Object (LSO), which is typically collected if, for example, you watch a video that uses the Adobe Flash media player, i.e., an embedded YouTube video on a page that is being played via Flash. Please note that these types of cookies are not used on iPads, which do not support Flash. More information is available on Adobe’s website on how to control theses cookies.
Web beacons: Web beacons are small single pixel transparent image files. They allow website owners to know when a visitor has reached their website, and are used in conjunction with cookies to allow further website tracking to be monitored. Again, these files are not viruses, but are useful in helping us to make your web surfing experience better.
Media Cookies: These cookies can be used to improve a website’s performance and provide special features and content. They can be placed by third parties who provide services to us or by our company.
Advertising or Targeting Cookies: These cookies are usually placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve advertisements on other websites that are related to your interests. You will see less advertising if you disable these cookies.
Session Cookies: These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for a variety of purposes, such as remembering what a user has put in their shopping cart as they browse a website. Session cookies also permit users to be recognized as they navigate a website so that any item or page changes they make are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire after a browser session; thus, they are not stored long term.
Persistent Cookies: These cookies are stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions, which allows the user’s preferences or actions across a site (or, in some cases, across different sites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users’ choices and preferences when using a website or to target advertising to them.
We may also use cookies for:
Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.
More about Google Analytics
Google Analytics uses first cookies to help the website analyse how users use the site. Nacro.org.uk no longer uses Google Universal Analytics and has installed Google Analytics 4 as part of our ongoing work in protecting your privacy.
Google Analytics 4
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) uses first-party cookies.
GA4 is a new property which:
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To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.