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4. What types of cookies does this site use?
We describe the categories of The GREAT Britain and Northern Ireland Campaign’s (“The GREAT Campaign”) cookies, affiliates and contractors use below:
4.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for (such as navigating between pages) cannot be provided.
The Website currently uses the following, strictly necessary cookies:
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We make use of analytic cookies to analyse how our visitors use the Site and to monitor the Site’s performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by customising our offering, and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages. The information collected by these cookies is not associated with your personal information by us or by our contractors.
The Website currently uses the following analytic cookies from Google Analytics:
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Source: Google Analytics
Purpose: These cookies make it possible to measure and analyse users’ navigation and behaviour within the Content. We install these cookies for the purpose of obtaining statistics regarding use of the Content, to prepare user browsing profiles to identify the most attractive content for them and their level of recurrence, and to thereby improve our services and Content. Google can also use the data obtained from the analytics cookies to improve its services and to offer services to other companies.
Further information
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We may perform IP lookups to determine which domain you are coming from (e.g. google.com) to more accurately gauge our users’ demographics.
6. Cookies policy does not cover third party websites
Please note that this cookies policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of third party websites that may be linked to the Website.
7. Changes to the cookies policy
We may update this cookies policy and we would encourage you to review the policy from time to time to stay informed of how we are using cookies. This cookies policy was last updated on the 4th March 2020.