What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text file containing a small amount of data which is downloaded to your computer when you visit our websites. The vast majority of websites use cookies and tracking technologies. Cookies are useful because they enable you to move around our websites and use their features.
If you don’t want us to place cookies on your computer then there are a number of ways you can opt out – setting your browser either to reject all cookies, to only allow “trusted” sites to set them, or to accept only those cookies from those websites which you are
currently on.
Please remember – if you do delete or disallow all cookies, you are not able to access features offered on our websites.
Classification of cookies
We have reviewed all the cookies we use and have divided them into three categories:
- Strictly Necessary
- Performance
- Advertising or tracking
Strictly Necessary
These cookies are essential to enable you to move around our websites and use their features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, our websites won’t work properly.
Performance
These cookies collect information about how you use our websites, for instance, which pages you go to most often and if you get error messages from those pages. We only use these cookies to improve how our websites work.
Advertising or Tracking Cookies
We do not accept advertising from any other organisation on our websites. We use Google Analytics to better understand how our customers navigate to and through our websites, how long customers spend visiting our content items and how often they return to visit our websites.
Cookies on our website
Volunteering Matters uses the following cookies on this website, for the following purpose:
PHP Session – to improve page load performance
Google Analytics – to recorded the number of visitors to the Brad-Chem website
Resolution – to detect the visitor’s screen resolution in order to display correctly sized images
WordPress – to detect if a website administrator is logged in to the website Content Management System (CMS)