Cookies Policy

Cookie Policy

This page explains how our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. We are not saving or sharing any personal data about you through cookies – that includes your credit card number or address.

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. We strive to protect your personal data and only use your personal data to process your chosen transaction. If you would like to learn more about how we protect your privacy, please read our Privacy Statement.

How we use cookies

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 and stored on your browser or on the hard drive of your computer or mobile phone.  Some cookies are essential and are required to make our website work, others are non-essential and will only be used if you agree.

The cookies we use on our website help us to:

• Make our website work as you’d expect
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Continuously improve our website for you
• Make our marketing more efficient

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• Pay sales commissions

Different cookies are used for different purposes. The most commonly used cookies are as follows:

• Essential cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make donations or purchases on our website. You can disable these in your browser settings but this may affect your experience on our website.
• Analytics 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. None of this information can be used to identify you, it is all aggregated and therefore anonymized. These are optional cookies which can be disabled when you first visit our website or can be managed in the settings above.
• Advertisement cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, the links you have followed, where you have come from and your online activity. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed to you more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. These are optional cookies which can be disabled when you first visit our website or can be managed in the settings above.

You can learn more about the individual cookies we use and the purpose for which we use them below.

Granting us permission to use cookies

When you visit our website for the first time, or the first time in a while, we will only use essential cookies and display a banner asking you to accept our cookie policy and agree to cookies being used during this and future visits to our site. If you select ‘accept’, we will use all essential and non-essential cookies as displayed in the table below. If you select ‘no’, we will only use essential cookies but this will mean that our site may not work as intended.

Updating your settings to turn all cookies off

You can update your cookie settings at any time and switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so, however, will likely limit the functionality of our, and a large proportion of the world’s websites, as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites. It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so-called “spyware”. 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.

Cookies that http://www.charnwoodforest.org uses

The list below provides an overview of the cookies used on our website, including details of who sets each cookie and its purpose. You can find further information at https://cookiedatabase.org.

• SiteCookies:

Used to track when a user has accepted the site’s cookies. This is also used to enable tracking for third party services such as Google Analytics.

• _ga
  • Cookie is used by: Google Analytics
  • The functionality is: to store and count pageviews.
  • The purpose is: Analytics

• __stripe_sid and __stripe_mid
  • Cookie is used by: Stripe
  • The functionality is: to provide fraud prevention.
  • The purpose is: Essential

• Wp_lang
  • Cookie is used by: WordPress
  • The functionality is: to store language settings.
  • The purpose is: Essential

• _fbp
  • Cookie is used by: Facebook
  • The functionality is: to store and track visits across websites.
  • The purpose is: Advertising

• WordPress_sec_*
  • Cookie is used by: WordPress
  • The functionality is: to provide protection against hackers, store account details.
  • The purpose is: Essential

• Wp-settings-time-1 (Wp-Settings-Time-*)
  • Cookie is used by: WordPress
  • The functionality is: to store user preferences.
  • The purpose is: Essential

• WordPress_logged_in_*
  • Cookie is used by: WordPress
  • The functionality is: to Store logged in users.
  • The purpose is: Essential

• Wp-settings-1 (Wp-Settings-*)
  • Cookie is used by: WordPress
  • The functionality is: to store user preferences.
  • The purpose is: Essential

• WordPress_test_cookie
  • Cookie is used by: WordPress
  • The functionality is: to read if cookies can be placed.
  • The purpose is: Essential