Cookies Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie.
Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
We do not use cookies to store financial information.
Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies to let you do things on our website and to understand how our visitors use our website.
We use cookies to improve your experience of using our website as it tracks your browsing behaviour to enable us to deliver a more personalised online experience.
Cookies enable us to collect anonymous statics, for example the number of people visiting our site and which pages are the most popular to allow us to improve the user experience.
We use cookies to improve the sharing process between our site and social media feeds, for example Twitter or Facebook. They also enable us to show relevant advertising when you visit other sites than ours.
Cookies also enable us to measure how cost-effective our advertising is, to ensure we are doing more of the right things. Cookies are used to help us see how many people who click our adverts go on to do something further (for example, donating, signing a petition or becoming a member). These cookies expire after 30 days of inactivity and do not contain information that can personally identify you.
What information do we collect using cookies?
Examples of ways we may use cookies to record information include:
- Areas of the website you visit and engage with and the amount of time you spend on the website
- Whether you have visited our website before
- The country, region, city associated with your IP address or device
- How you came to our website
- The types of device and browser you use
- Any error messages you receive on our site
Types of cookies
There are two types of cookies; first party and third-party cookies. First party cookies are set up by us. Third party cookies are set by service providers on our behalf in order to provide a service to you. We may collect some or all the information available from cookies when you visit our website, depending on how you are using it.
The cookies set by Facebook (including when you visit our page on Facebook) are first party cookies, which means they are set by Facebook and if you use Facebook you should visit their cookie policy on how to manage your preferences.
Cookies can be further categorised as session cookies and persistent cookies. Cookies that expire at the end of a browser session (when a user exits their browser) are called session cookies. Cookies can that can be stored for longer are called persistent cookies.
Session cookies allow websites to recognise and link the actions of a user during a browser session. Persistent cookies are stored on a user’s device in-between sessions and they can allow the preferences or actions of the users across a site (or different sites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies are used to remember a users’ preferences and choices when using a site or to target advertising.
Categories of cookies we use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided. You can set your browser to block these, but some parts of our site will not work as you would expect. These cookies do not store any information that could identify you and are usually only set in response to an action (filling in a form).
Strictly necessary cookies
Cookie Name | Used by | Description | Expiration |
| _GRECAPTCHA | www.google.com | Used by Google reCaptcha for risk analysis | 6 months |
cookiehub | league.org.uk | | a year |
| _grecaptcha | www.google.com | This cookie is set by Google reCAPTCHA, which protects the site against spam enquiries on contact forms. | Session |
Personalisation cookies
These cookies allow us to count web site visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve our website performance to make it better for you. They help us understand which pages are the most and least popular, see how visitors move around the site and measure the impact of our digital marketing. These cookies do not identify you as an individual, just the computer used in order to make using our website easier and more relevant for you next time you visit. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know you have visited (or how you reached us).
Personalisation cookies
Cookie Name | Used by | Description | Expiration |
_ga_* | league.org.uk | Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics 4 to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | a year |
_ga | league.org.uk | Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | a year |
_gid | league.org.uk | Contains a unique identifier used by Google Analytics to determine that two distinct hits belong to the same user across browsing sessions. | a day |
_gat_* | league.org.uk | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate (limit the collection of data on high traffic sites) | a few seconds |
Targeting cookies
We use “targeting cookies” to help tailor advertising we think may be of interest to you in order to help raise awareness and funds to support our work protecting wildlife.
They are used by our advertising partners (eg. Facebook) to collect information about how you use our website and show you associated adverts on other sites. This information may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on their websites. No directly identifiable personal information is shared with our advertising partners, (eg: email address) but information that uniquely identifies your browser and internet device will be shared. If you do not allow these cookies you will experience less targeted advertising. You may still see our adverts but these will not be connected to your previous activity on our website.
Targeting cookies
Cookie Name | Used by | Description | Expiration |
_gcl_au | league.org.uk | Used by Google AdSense to understand user interaction with the website by generating analytical data. | 3 months |
test_cookie | doubleclick.net | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies | 15 minutes |
_fbp | league.org.uk | Facebook Pixel advertising first-party cookie. Used by Facebook to track visits across websites to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months |
Other tracking methods
We add an invisible tracking image inside broadcast emails, which is used to determine whether a supporter opens an email.
Website cookie acceptance
By using our website, you consent to our use of cookies as updated from time to time and the cookies we use will be stored on your device (unless rejected or disabled by your browser).
We have a visible banner on our website to remind users that by using the website they consent to our use of cookies. Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default. However, it is possible to set an internet browser to reject cookies.
If you do not accept our use of cookies as set out in this Policy, please set your internet browser to reject cookies. This may impair your ability to use our website.
We may update our cookies from time to time and this Policy, so please check this Policy regularly.
For more information about the cookies this website uses, please contact the League Against Cruel Sports, New Sparling House, Holloway Hill, Godalming, GU7 1QZ. Telephone: 01483 524 250. Email: info@league.org.uk
More general information on cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org