Cookies Policy

What is this policy about?

This policy explains what cookies are, how we use them on the Concordia website and your options on how to set them for your own use.

Who do we mean by ‘we’

‘We’ refers to Concordia Charity. Concordia is a registered charity no. 305991. Registered company no. 381668. Registered VAT no. 238688121. Registered office: 19 North Street, Portslade, Brighton BN41 1DH

What are cookies?

A cookie is a text file that are downloaded onto your device when you visit a website. Cookies help the website recognise your device on future visits. Cookies are used widely across websites to help the website work (essential cookies) or work better and help improve future visits to the same website (optional cookies).

How do we use cookies on the Concordia website?

We use cookies to help deliver certain functionality for the website or to help us understand our users’ use of our website (analytics) or to support understanding of any advertising we may run.

How can I control the cookies on my device?

When you first visit our website you will be asked for consent on how to use cookies. This will then be set for future visits to the website. You can change your choice at any time.

Web browsers also allow you to manage cookies preferences. You can manage cookie preference on different web browsers such as chrome and safari with more information available on the About Cookies website

For any other browsers visit the browser developer website.

Cookies used on our website

See below a list of cookies used on our website.

Strictly necessary (essential) cookies

Our website is built on Wix and there are some cookies set by Wix which are necessary for our website to function and can’t be switched off such as setting your privacy preferences or filling in forms. You can see a list of essential cookies used by Wix on their website.

You can set your browser to block these cookies, however please be aware this may mean that some parts of our website will not work.

Performance cookies - Google analytics and Hotjar

We use Google Analytics and Hotjar to help understand and analyse how our website is used or how it is performing. We use this information to help improve and shape the changes we make to our website going forward.

The cookies we use for Google Analytics are

_ga - expires after two years - Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website
_gid - expires after 1 day – Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website
_gat - expires after 1 day - Used to throttle request rate

For more information on Hotjar cookies take a look at Hotjar's privacy policy and the cookies set by the Hotjar tracking code.

Targeting cookies

Google AdWords

We use AdWords to enable us to reach our audiences more effectively when they search online for us or something related to what we do. In order to target people appropriately that have visited our site before and to track the performance of our advertising campaigns, we use Google AdWords remarketing tags doubleclick.net.

You can find out more about Google Ad settings and update your preferences https://adssettings.google.com/

Meta pixel

We use Meta advertising across Facebook and Instagram to help us reach our audiences and build awareness of our volunteering opportunities. The Meta pixel is used on our website to help us understand the effectiveness of our advertising.

You can find out more about Meta privacy and cookie policy

You can also view and control your Facebook advert settings for your own Facebook account at any time

Other third party cookies

Some of our web pages may have embedded content from third party sites such as YouTube or social media. If you visit these pages you may be sent cookies from these sites. We do not control these cookies so for more information on these please visit the third party website’ own cookie policies and advice on how to manage them.

Further information

For more information on how we look after any data submitted via our website and further details please see our data and privacy policy.

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