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We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site.
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors 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.
• 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. We will use this information 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.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Name	Purpose	Used by	Expiry period
_utma	Stores the number of visits of a user, the time of their first visit, the previous visit and the current visit. It does not contain any personal information and is used on for analytical purposes.	Google Analytics	2 years
_utmz	This performance cookie stores where a user came from (e.g. search engine, search keyword, link).	Google Analytics	6 months
_ga and _gid	Used to distinguish between website users and Google Analytics	Google Analytics	2 years and 24 hours respectively
_ga_UA-24384487-1	Used to moderate calls to the Google Analytics service	Google Analytics	2 years
_unam	Set as part of the ShareThis service and monitors “click-stream” activity, e.g. web pages viewed, navigation from page to page, time spent on each page etc. The ShareThis service only identifies a user if they have separately signed up with ShareThis for a ShareThis account and given them consent. Checks how long you stay on a site. It does not contain any personal information and is used for analytical purposes.	ShareThis	14 months
cc_cookie_accept	Stores whether the user has accepted the cookie message or not.	Website	365 days
ToggleStatus	Stores whether the user has hidden or shown the contacts filter search	Website
ASP.NET_Sessionid	Used for authenticating a user’s session after logging in. Closes when you exit the browser.	Website	Length of browsing session
ARRAffinity	Tells our infrastructure which server to handle the request.	Website	Length of browsing session
MemberLoggedIn	A binary flag which stored whether a user is logged in or not.	Website	Length of browsing session
Ai_session and ai_user	Tracks users as they navigate the website predominately for infrastructure performance insights.	Website	1 day
DisplayName	Keeps track of a donor’s preference to show their name during a Direct Debit.	Website	Length of browsing session

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

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