Find out more about how Hospice UK uses cookies on its website.
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How we use cookies at Hospice UK
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When you use our website, we add cookies to your device to:
Make sure you can login to access things like Project ECHO networks
Find out how you're using our website so we can continue to improve it
Help us run fundraising campaigns effectively
By using our website, we assume you agree to us adding cookies to your device. If you want to disable, block or remove cookies, you can do this at any time.
Disabling cookies on your browser
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You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. You can also delete cookies that have already been set.
If you wish to do this, the Help function within your browser should tell you how, or you can visit www.knowcookies.com, which contains information on how to do this on a variety of web browsers.
However, should you disable cookies from the Hospice UK website, you will not be able to access any part of the website that requires a login. You also might not be able to see content, such as YouTube videos, that come from other organisations.
The cookies we set
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The following sections will tell you more about the cookies placed on your computer by visiting the Hospice UK website.
This cookie stops the pop-up message about cookies showing on your device, for every page on the Hospice UK website you visit. Instead, it will only be shown on the first 3 pages you visit, or until you close the message.
We use a Thank Q web portal to authenticate people who need to login to parts of our website:
When you have logged in to the site a cookie will be applied to your browser to convey your authentication as you move through pages of the site. This cookie is removed when you log out of the logged-in area and does not itself contain any personal information
All cookies set by this portal will be deleted when you close your browser down.
The portal does not use browser cookies to:
Share information with third party websites
Collect personally identifiable information about you
Track your movements for the purposes of advertising
The cookies used by the ThankQ web portal
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.ASPXAUTH
The cookie used to convey your authentication when you are logged in.
ASP.NET_SessionId
The cookie used by the framework we use to build this site.
If you use content or tools on our website that are delivered by another organisation, they might add cookies on your device when you use it.
The tools and services from other organisations we have on our website are:
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how you use our website. It collects information by placing a cookie on your device as you are browsing the site. They share this data with us and we can analyse the results to help us improve the experience you get when you visit us.
Some of the information they collect:
the links you click on
your browser, device and operating system, and whether it’s a desktop PC or mobile / tablet device
the language you use
your screen's resolution
the length of time you're on our website
your ISP and approximate ISP Location (broken down by City, Region and Country)
how you got to our website
The data collected through cookies is all anonymous - you can't be identified by it. We store the information for 6 months and then delete it.
This cookies policy only covers websites owned by Hospice UK (www.hospiceuk.org) and its associated sites, such as supporter.hospiceuk.org, shop.hospiceuk.org, and grants.hospiceuk.org.
Websites that we link to should have their own cookies policy, and Hospice UK is not responsible for the content on those sites.
