Cookies Policy
How does Reducing the Risk use Cookies?
We use cookies to enhance the online experience of our visitors, to better understand how our websites are used and to monitor how our advertisements perform. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our site before or whether you are a new visitor.
Your Rights
Our cookies do not store financial information or information which is capable of directly identifying you (such as your name or address). You have the right to choose whether to accept cookies. You can exercise this right by amending or setting the controls on your browser to reflect your cookie preferences. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
How does Reducing the Risk use Cookies?
We use cookies to enhance the online experience of our visitors, to better understand how our websites are used and to monitor how our advertisements perform. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our site before or whether you are a new visitor.
Cookie terminology
We have classified our cookies into two broad types — ‘first party cookies’ and ‘third party cookies’:
- First party cookies are cookies that are served directly by the website operator to your computer, and are often used to recognise your computer when it revisits that site and to remember your preferences as you browse the site.
- Third party cookies are served by a service provider on behalf of the website operator, and can be used by the service provider to recognise your computer when it visits other web sites. Third party cookies are used for a variety of reasons, most commonly used for website analytics or advertising purposes. More details are provided in the third party cookie section.
In addition, cookies may be either ‘session cookies’ or ‘persistent cookies’. Your computer automatically removes session cookies once you close your browser. Persistent cookies will survive on your computer until an expiry date specified in the cookie itself, is reached.
List of the main cookies used on our website
To help you understand how we use cookies, this is a list of the main cookies set across our website and what each is used for:
| Type and location | Purpose | Cookie name/contents/expiry |
|---|---|---|
| Session across reducingtherisk.org.uk and all other web platforms of Reducing the Risk of Domestic Abuse | These cookies determine whether to provide rich functionality like dropdown menus. | has_js
Stores 1 or 0 depending on if the user has JavaScript enabled in their browser. Expires when the browser is closed. |
| Persistent across reducingtherisk.org.uk and all other web platforms of Reducing the Risk of Domestic Abuse | These cookies let us know whether you’ve agreed to our use of cookies | cookie-agreed
Stores 1 or 2 depending on whether the user has accepted cookies. Expires after 100 days. |
| Persistent across reducingtherisk.org.uk and all other web platforms of Reducing the Risk of Domestic Abuse | These cookies are only required if you are a DA Champion and log onto the website. | SESS*
Randomly generated identifier assigned to uniquely identify a user’s session. Expires when you close your browser or log out. |
Third party cookies set by Reducing the Risk of Domestic Abuse
We work with Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google inc. that enables us to measure how people use our website using cookies. We use this information to improve our website experience for website visitors and to see how they find us.
For those site visitors who have explicitly opted in to Google’s data privacy policy, Google will associate your IP address with other data held by Google in order to identify you across multiple devices. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. You may also stop the transmission of information generated by the cookies about your use of the website and of your IP address to Google, by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Broswer Add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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Google Analytics privacy policy
Cookies set by third parties
If you go on to a page on our website that contains embedded content, for example YouTube, you may be sent cookies from these websites.
Our website also contains embedded buttons to enable users of the site to easily share articles with their friends through a number of popular networks, for example, Facebook and Twitter. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service.
We do not control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party website for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.
Additional references
Further information about cookies and how to control their use is available from All About Cookies and Your Online Choices.
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