Cookie Use Policy

Cookies are sent from the server of the websites you visit to your web browser and stored on your hard drive. Leap into Hope uses cookies to enable our website to function effectively, to improve your experience and to determine, improve the effectiveness of our website and marketing campaigns. The use of our website is monitored when people use it so as to improve it, however the information is collected anonymously. Cookies cannot read data off your hard drive or other cookie files.

Leap into Hope website is created in a Content Management System cookies (CMS) CMS called WordPress, which places a small number of standard WordPress cookies on your computer as you use it. This enhances your experience when using the website.  The first time you load the Leap into Hope homepage, you will see a notice at top of the page about cookies.

There are two broad types of cookies – ‘first party cookies’ and ‘third party cookies. First party cookies are cookies that are served directly by the website operator to your computer. First party cookies are used to recognise your computer when it revisits that site and to remember your preferences as you browse the site.

The first party cookies we use allow Google Analytics to monitor the performance of our website. This helps us to continually improve. We will use cookies to store login information and remember preferences. Google Analytics cookies collect information about how visitors use a website such as pages visitors go to most often, what is popular on our website, which pages on the website are visited before people donate. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

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 you visit other web sites. Third party cookies are most commonly used for web site analytics or advertising purposes. We embed YouTube films, Twitter feed, Facebook likes on our website regularly. We are unable to prevent such sites, or external domains, from collecting information on your usage of this embedded content and you may receive cookies delivered from these websites They will not know who you are but are likely to gather anonymous usage information for example, number of views, plays, loads etc. Leap into Hope does not govern the publication of third-party cookies. To understand more about their cookies and privacy statements, please visit the relevant sites. Additional cookies will be placed on your computer if you are an editor on one or more of these CMS systems (for example if you are a Leap into Hope staff member). We only use essential third party cookies to process – for example – to process a payment you have made.

Also, there 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. We use both session and persistent cookies.

Some of our cookies will remind you about our work and how you can help after you have left the website. These are the targeting/advertising cookies we use. It is a useful tool for us to keep public awareness of our campaigns and how they can be supported.

We use cookies from trusted third parties to measure the effectiveness of paid advertising (Google and Facebook) to ensure the money we spend is used effectively. They allow us to track traffic to our website to tell us if our marketing campaigns are successful, and ensure we are spending our advertising budgets as efficiently as possible.

By using our website, our social media pages (such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google+), subscribing to our services, donating to us, you agree that, unless you have set your computer’s browser to reject them, we can place the types of cookies set out below on your device and use that data in accordance with this policy.

How to manage your cookie settings

Many web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Safari, will allow some control over cookies through their settings. To manage your cookie settings, please refer to your browser software.  Your web browser settings allow you to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent. They also allow you to control cookies stored on your hard drive.

Our email marketing may be trackable at an individual level, allowing us to determine, for example, opens and link clicks. This information is generally used to help assess the effectiveness of communications. If you wish to disable tracking then please unsubscribe from our mailing list. This can be done by either unsubscribing at the bottom of your most recent email sent from us, but please note, unsubscribing will prevent any future communications being sent to that email address.

You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org

You can choose to use our website anonymously without giving us any information.

Please also read the website’s terms and conditions and privacy policy