Cookie Policy

1. Introduction

 1.1. Upon visiting The Little Princess Trust’s website, we may use cookies in order to personalise our service to you.

 1.2. Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by websites you visit.

 1.3. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently for visitors, and to provide information to the owners of the site. Some of the cookies we use are essential in order for parts of the website to operate. In section two, we have given a description and purpose for each cookie we use.

 1.4. You are not obliged to accept a cookie from us, and you may modify your browser so that it will not accept cookies. For information on how to achieve this please refer to the Help section on your browser or contact your system administrator.

 2. How do we use cookies on the website?

2.1. We use cookies on the website for our own internal purposes, to track how users navigate through the website. This helps us to evaluate and improve our website and our online services.

2.2. We use information derived from cookies in order to:

  • Compile statistics on how our website is being used, which can help us to improve our website and online services
  • Facilitate users’ ability to navigate through the website
  • Ascertain whether the website is operating effectively
  • Personalise and improve the service we offer you by understanding your preferences and establishing which areas of the website are most relevant to you

2.3. Our cookies are not used to identify you personally and you are able to manage and delete cookies as you wish.

2.4. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about our web traffic and make improvements to our website so that it better serves our customers' needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. No personally identifiable data is collected in this process.

2.5. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

2.6. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website and websites generally.

3. Google Analytics

3.1. We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use our site. We do this to make sure it is meeting its users' needs and how we can improve. User data is aggregated and completely anonymous.

4. Cookies we use

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Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years
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Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years
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Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: when user exits browser 
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Typical content: randomly generated number and information about how the page was reached (eg directly or via a link, organic search or paid search)
Expires: 6 months
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Typical content: randomly generated number
Expires: 2 years 
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Typical content: randomly generated number
Use: Enables the website to store serialised state data. On the Action website it is used to establish a user session and to pass state data via a temporary cookie, which is commonly referred to as a session cookie.
Expires: 30 minutes of inactivity

 

 

The MBE for voluntary groups was awarded to The Little Princess Trust by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.