Cookie Policy

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website. Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). Targeting cookies/Advertising cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. [We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose so that they can serve you with relevant advertising on their websites].

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

.c.bing.com Script URL pattern bing.com (7 days) Analytical Data This cookie, set by Bing, collects user information for analytics purposes.

_clsk (1 day) Domain: animaltrust.org.uk Script URL pattern clarity.ms Analytical Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to store and consolidate a user's page views into a single session recording.

_clck (1 year)Domain:animaltrust.org.uk Script URL pattern clarity.ms Analytical Microsoft Clarity sets this cookie to retain the browser's Clarity User ID and settings exclusive to that website. This guarantees that actions taken during subsequent visits to the same website will be linked to the same user ID.

_ga (1 year 1 month 4 days) Domain:animaltrust.org.uk Analytical Script URL pattern googleanalytics.com|googletagmanager.com/gtag/js Google Analytics sets this cookie to calculate visitor, session and campaign data and track site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognise unique visitors.

ga (1 year 1 month 4 days)Domain: animaltrust.org.uk Analytical Script URL pattern googleanalytics.com|googletagmanager.com/gtag/js* Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views.

SRM_B (1 year 24 days) Performance Domain:.c.bing.com Script URL pattern bing.com Used by Microsoft Advertising as a unique ID for visitors.

__cflb (1 hour) Performance Domain: api2.hcaptcha.com Script URL pattern cloudflare.com This cookie is used by Cloudflare for load balancing.

MUID (1 year 24 days) Advertising/website analytics and other operations Domain:.clarity.ms Script URL pattern bing.com Bing sets this cookie to recognise unique web browsers visiting Microsoft sites. This cookie is used for advertising, site analytics, and other operations.

ANONCHK (10 minutes) Advertising/website analytics and other operations Domain: .c.clarity.ms Script URL pattern bing.com The ANONCHK cookie, set by Bing, is used to store a user's session ID and verify ads' clicks on the Bing search engine. The cookie helps in reporting and personalisation as well.

bcookie (1 year)Advertising/website analytics and other operations Domain: .linkedin.com Script URL pattern.linkedin.com|licdn.com LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognise browser IDs.

test cookie (15 mins)Advertising/website analytics and other operations Domain: .doubleclick.net Script URL pattern.linkedin.com|licdn.com doubleclick.net sets this cookie to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.

fr (3 months)Advertising/website analytics and other operations Domain: .facebook.com Script URL pattern facebook.net Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites with Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies: googletagmanager.com clarity.ms facebook.net bing.com google-analytics.com|googletagmanager.com/gtag/js cloudflare.com linkedin.com|licdn.com doubleclick.net

To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you may visit the relevant consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies [include link to consent management solution]].

CHOICES ABOUT COOKIES

You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by clicking on the button(s): Strictly necessary cookies ** ALWAYS ACTIVE** Analytical or performance cookies OFF Functionality cookies OFF Targeting cookies OFF You can also choose to "Reject All" cookies in the cookie banner. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after a maximum period of 12 months.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at [email protected]