Privacy policy
We are committed to ensuring your personal information is protected and to being transparent about how we use it. Read more.
Cookies are small text files which are downloaded to and stored on your computer or device when you visit a website. Cookies are commonly used by website owners to provide you with a good experience while you browse and provide information which can help website owners to improve websites.
How we use cookies
Our website uses cookies to:
- Make sure the site works.
- Collect anonymous data on how users navigate our site, which helps us to improve it.
- Allow you to share our content on social networks.
- Help us provide relevant advertising to those who may be interested in it.
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information.
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties.
Cookie details
We have split the cookies used on our site into three categories – necessary, statistics and marketing cookies. Each of these categories is explained below along with details of the specific cookies used.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be performance cookies or marketing cookies.
Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
| Provider | Cookies | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| changingfaces.org.uk | CookieConsent | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | CookieControl | Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry. |
| changingfaces.tfafor ms.net | FASRV | Needed to enable forms from Form Assembly to work when embedded. |
Statistics cookies
Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
| Provider | Cookies | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| googleanalytics. com | __utm.gif | Google Analytics Tracking Code that logs details about the visitor’s browser and computer. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | __utma | Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | __utmb | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | __utmc | Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | __utmt | Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | __utmz | Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
| twitter.com | personalization_id | This cookie is set by Twitter. The cookie allows the visitor to share content from the website onto their Twitter profile. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Used by Hotjar to count how many times a website has been visited by different visitors. This is done by assigning the visitor an ID, so the visitor does not get registered twice. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | _hjid | Used by Hotjar to set a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Used by Hotjar to determine if the user’s navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | _hjIncludedInSessionSample | Used by Hotjar to register data on visitors’ website behaviour. This is used for internal analysis and website optimisation. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | _hjRecordingLastActivity | Used by Hotjar in context with the website’s user feedback functionality. Determines whether the user has been shown feedback messages. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | _hjTLDTest | Used by Hotjar to detects the SEO-ranking for the current website. This service is part of a third-party statistics and analysis service. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | hjViewportId | Used by Hotjar to set a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. |
| changingfaces.org.uk | _hjFirstSeen | Used by Hotjar to identify a new user’s first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar is seeing this user for the first time. |
Marketing cookies
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.
| Provider | Cookies | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| changingfaces.org.uk | _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| facebook.com | fr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| t.co | i/adsct | The cookie is used by Twitter.com in order to determine the number of visitors accessing the website through twitter advertisement content. |
| doubleclick.net | IDE | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. |
| doubleclick.net | r/collect | This cookie is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. It tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
| doubleclick.net | test_cookie | Used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. |
| facebook.com | tr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| youtube.com | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. |
| youtube.com | YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| youtube.com | yt.innertube::nextId | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| youtube.com | yt.innertube::request | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| youtube.com | yt-remote-castinstalled | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| youtube.com | yt-remoteconnected- devices | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| youtube.com | yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| youtube.com | yt-remote-fastcheck- period | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| youtube.com | yt-remote-sessionapp | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| youtube.com | yt-remote-sessionname | Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
How to control your cookies
You can change your cookie preferences on the Changing Faces website at any time by clicking on the ‘C’ icon in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen. You can then adjust the available sliders to ‘on’ or ‘off’, before clicking ‘save your preferred settings’. You may need to refresh the page for the amended settings to take effect.
You can also use your browser settings to disable cookies. Different browsers offer different levels of control – for example you may be able to accept certain cookies and reject others, such as third-party cookies.
You can use your web browser to:
- Delete, block or allow all cookies.
- Block ‘third-party’ cookies (cookies set by online services other than the one you are visiting).
- Clear all cookies when you close the browser.
- Open a ‘private browsing’ or ‘incognito’ session, which allows you to browse the web without recording your browsing history or storing local data such as cookies.
- Install add-ons and plugins that extend browser functionality.
To find out more information about controlling cookies in whichever browser you use, visit:
- Microsoft Edge cookies information
- Internet Explorer cookies information
- Chrome cookies information
- Firefox cookies information
- Safari cookies information – mobile devices and desktops
- Opera cookies information
What happens when you don’t accept or delete cookies?
If you refuse cookies, please be aware our website may not work smoothly for you and there will be certain parts that won’t function correctly.
If you delete all your cookies you will have to update your preferences with us again and some aspects of our site may not work.
What happens when you change computers or mobile device?
If you use a different device, computer profile or browser, you will see our cookie notice again and will also have to set the cookie settings on that device.
Find out more about cookies
You can learn more about cookies on aboutcookies.org or on the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office.
If you have any questions or comments about our cookie policy, please email [email protected].