Cookie notice

Cookies

Cookies are small files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Your browser sends these cookies back to the website every time you visit the site again, so it can recognise you. This allows websites to tailor what you see on the screen.

Web beacons, floodlights, gifs and clear gifs

websites, apps and emails often contain tiny graphics, each with a unique identifier that are embedded invisibly on sites and in emails. Web beacons allow us to know if a certain page was visited or if ad banners on our sites known as "web beacons" or "tracking pixels" are effective. We also use web beacons in our HTML-based emails to let us know whether our emails have been opened by recipients, which helps us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications, promotions, and marketing campaigns.

Pixels 

small objects embedded into a web page that are not visible to the user. We use pixels to deliver cookies to your computer, facilitate the log-in process, monitor the activity on our sites, and deliver online advertising.

Tags

are small pieces of HTML code that tell your browser to request certain content generated by an ad server. We use tags to show you relevant advertising and promotions.

Device identifiers: 

we use device identifiers on mobile devices in the same way as cookies are used on web browsers. A device identifier is a unique number on your device which allow us to remember your device.

Tracking URLs:

web links that allows us to measure when a link is clicked on. They help us measure the effectiveness of campaigns and advertising and the popularity of articles that are read.

Session

Session cookies enable sites to recognize and link the actions of a user during a browsing session and expire at the end of each session. In the list below, where there is no lifespan given, these are session cookies (apart from the Strictly Necessary Cookies).

Persistent

Persistent cookies help us recognize you as an existing user and these cookies are stored on your system or device until they expire, although you can delete them before the expiration date (see How you can manage cookies below). Expiry dates are set out in the list of cookies below under ‘lifespan’. 

First party cookies

First party cookies are owned by us and delivered by us to your computer. They are often used to recognise your computer when it revisits our site and to remember your preferences as you browse our site. 

Third party cookies

Third party cookies are owned and delivered by a third party partner or supplier on our behalf, and can be used by that third party to recognise your computer when you visit other web sites. Third party cookies are most commonly used for web site analytics or advertising purposes.

Sometimes the tools or services on our website are provided by suppliers who add cookies that we are unable to offer you control of within our cookie consent tool. This most commonly occurs where another company’s content is embedded within our website, and includes:

• Shopify  https://www.shopify.co.uk/legal/cookies 
• YouTube YouTube's embedded videos information page
• Google maps https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US 
• Twitter https://twitter.com/en/privacy 
• Facebook  https://en-gb.facebook.com/about/privacy/ 
• Vimeo https://vimeo.com/privacy 
• Enthuse  https://enthuse.com/cookies/ 

Facebook

We use Facebook cookies so we can deliver adverts to website visitors who have a Facebook account as well as find Facebook customers with similar interests to the people who visit our website. We also use Facebook cookies to measure the effectiveness of our Facebook ad campaigns which, in turn, helps ensure that we’re using our resources effectively. For more information about how we use Facebook’s advertising services, please visit our Privacy Policy section on Online Advertising.         

Facebook's privacy policy.

Google

We use Google’s Marketing Platform cookies so that we can measure the impact of our digital advertising campaigns. This helps us to ensure that the money we spend on digital advertising is cost-effective. They also help us to serve adverts to people who have visited our websites and control the number of times that a website visitor sees an advert.

We use Google analytics cookies to help us measure how visitors use our websites. This helps us to improve peoples’ experience of using our sites and measure the effectiveness of our digital advertising campaigns. Our ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visit to our sites is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. 

Google's Privacy Policy

Hotjar

Like Google Analytics, Hotjar is an analytics tool which helps us to monitor how visitors are using our website which helps us to improve user experience and take steps to ensure that can easily find what they are looking for.     

Hotjar's privacy policy.  

You can find further information about the additional third-party cookies that we use by clicking on the links that are listed under 'Categories of cookies set by Macmillan'

Cookies may collect the following types of information:

• IP address
• the country, region, city and/or borough associated with your IP address or device
• Device ID
• Browser type
• Operating system
• Internet Service Provider
• Areas of the website you visit
• Amount of time you spend on the site
• Whether you have responded to, or interacted with, an advertisement
• how you came to our website – for example, through an email link or a search engine
• Features used and activities engaged in on our sites for example how you interact with our donation and sign up forms, what you select as your communication preferences
• whether you are new to the site, or have visited it before
• how you use the website and the quality of your experience – for example we may track your bandwidth when viewing videos
• any error messages that you receive on the site

Cookies Settings Tool

You can control which cookies are set by clicking on 'Cookies Settings' on our cookies banner. You can amend your settings or withdraw your consent for cookies at any time by clicking on the 'Let me choose my cookies' button below, or the green floating Cookies Settings button on the bottom left of our webpages.

If you haven’t given permission for us to set cookies through the cookies banner that popped up when you first visited this site, your visit (and how you got here) won’t be tracked by us. However, if you visit this site using a different device and/browser in the future, you will need to provide us with your cookie preferences again.

Delete browser history/ disable cookies

• Firefox - Enable and disable cookies that websites use to track your preferences 
• Safari - Managing Cookies 
• Google Chrome - Manage cookies 
• Internet Explorer - How to manage cookies in Internet Explorer 9, How to delete cookie files in Internet Explorer 

Do Not Track

Some web browsers may transmit "do-not-track" signals to sites with which the browser communicates. Participants in the leading Internet standards-setting organization that is addressing this issue are in the process of determining what, if anything, sites should do when they receive such signals. We currently do not take action in response to these signals. If and when a final standard is established and accepted, we will reassess our sites’ responses to these signals and make appropriate updates to this Cookies Notice.

Further information

You can choose not to receive tailored online advertising on this site and other sites and learn more about opting out of having your information used for tailored advertising purposes here: https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ 

You can also find out more about cookies at www.cookiepedia.co.uk and at www.aboutcookies.org.uk

If you have any queries or comments about this Cookies Notice please contact infogov@macmillan.org.uk.

We may update our use of cookies (as well as this Cookies Notice) from time to time so please check regularly to keep up to date.

Below is a list of the main cookies we use on this website. The categories we have used are based on the International Chamber of Commerce’s Guide for Cookie categorisation.