What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites you visit. Cookies allow a website to ‘recognise’ your computer and so can make websites work more efficiently or allow website providers to gather information on how the site is used.

The BBC website gives a more detailed yet still straightforward explanation of what cookies are and how they work. For more technical information go to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Cookies used on the Steve Morgan Foundation website

Steve Morgan Foundation uses Google Analytics cookies to monitor our website performance. When you visit our website we will place the following cookies on your computer:

CookieDescriptionDurationType
GPSThis cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location1years 19days 14hours 52minutesAnalytics
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVEThis cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.1years 19days 19hours 11minutesAdvertisement
YSCThis cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.Performance
_gaThis cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.1years 20days 8hours 23minutesAnalytics
_gidThis cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.1years 19days 14hours 54minutesAnalytics
_gat_gtag_UA_145038415_1This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to throttle request rate.1years 19days 14hours 52minutesAnalytics
test_cookieThis cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users’ browser supports cookies.1years 19days 14hours 52minutesAdvertisement
IDEUsed by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.1years 20days 8hours 23minutesAdvertisement

How do we use the information we collect?

Steve Morgan Foundation uses cookies to analyse how visitors use our site. We may then use the information we collect to make changes or improvements to the site. For example if we discovered that some pages are rarely visited we may decide to remove them, or rewrite them to make them more helpful and relevant.

The cookies we use do not collect any personal information. All the information collected is combined into one anonymous data source.

Acceptance of cookies

By using Steve Morgan Foundation’s website, you are consenting to these cookies being placed on your computer.

Changing your cookie settings

You can block cookies from being placed on your computer and erase cookies that are already there if you want to. However it is important to be aware that many websites are reliant on the use of cookies and so may not work correctly if you set your browser not to accept cookies. You can find out how to control the use of cookies within your internet browser here.

Questions about our use of cookies

If you have any questions about our use of cookies please contact us here.

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