Cookie Policy

Use of cookies by the Friends of the Lake District

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, product ordering and generally improve the user experience. Third Party cookies can be used to help track users visits to enhance the overall browsing experience of a site.

They can be classed as necessary (i.e. essential to function of the website), or non-essential such as for statistical or marketing purposes.

Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Purpose of cookies that we use

We use cookies for the following purposes:

(a) authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;

(b) status - we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;

(d) security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;

(e) advertising - we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you;

(f) analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services; and

(g) cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

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.

Cookie Name	Used by	Description	Expiration
_cfduid	Cloudflare	Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. It does not contain any personal information.	1 year
TiPMix	Azure	Used by Azure when determining which web server they should be directed to.
x-ms-routing-name	Azure	Used by Azure to handle traffic during code changes.	1 Hour
idsrv	Identity Server framework	Used by Identity Server framework to authenticate user via cookie when logging into our Platform.
idsrv.session	Identity Server framework	Used by Identity Server framework to ensure a user's session has not changed when logging into our Platform.
TempMember	Website	Set when a user first signs up for our site, but does not verify their account via email. It's used to associate the user's actions with the new user account.
TempMember_RequiresVerification	Website	Contains "true" if the person has recently signed up to the website but has not yet verified their account yet.	12 Hours
cookieconsent_status	Website	Used to remember if the user has accepted our cookie policy
tid	Website	Used by the Platform to store user session data. This includes antiforgery tokens and shopping basket data
AspNetCore.Antiforgery.XXXXXX	Identity Server framework	Built in ASP.NET security feature. Used to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks against our sites
ASP.NET_SessionId	Website	Used for authenticating a user's session after logging in. Closes when the user exits the browser. It does not contain any personal information.	End of session
.AspNet.Auth	Website	Used for authenticating the user when logged into the Platform.	2 Hours
ARRAffinity	Website	Tells our infrastructure which server to handle the request. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	End of session
MemberLoggedIn	Website	A binary flag which stores whether a user is logged in or not. It does not contain any personal information.	End of session
_stripe_sid	Stripe	Used by our payment provider, Stripe, in order to process payments on checkout.	End of session
_stripe_mid	Stripe	Used by our payment provider, Stripe, in order to process payments on checkout.	1 year
nsr	Stripe	Used by our payment provider, Stripe, in order to process payments on checkout.	End of session

Statistic cookies

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Cookie Name	Used by	Description	Expiration
@@History/@@scroll\|#	Website	Used by AppInsights to allow for monitoring of the platform database. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	End of session
_ga and _gid	Google Analytics	Used to distinguish between website users in Google Analytics.	2 years
_gat	Google Analytics	Used to moderate calls to the Google Analytics service. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	End of session
ai_session and ai_user	Website	Tracks users as they navigate the website predominately for infrastructure performance insights. It does not contain any personal information.	End of session
p.gif	Typekit	Used by the font provider, Typekit, if you are using one of their fonts. Used for compliance and billing purposes only. It does not contain any personal information.	End of session
__utma	Google Analytics	Stores the amount of visits of a user, the time of their first visit, the previous visit, and the current visit. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	2 years
__utmz	Google Analytics	This performance cookie stores where a user came from (eg. search engine, search keyword, link). It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	6 months
__unam	ShareThis	Set as part of the ShareThis service and monitors "click-stream" activity, e.g. web pages viewed, navigation from page to page, time spent on each page etc. The ShareThis service only identifies a user if they have separately signed up with ShareThis for a ShareThis account and given them consent. Checks how long a user stays on a site: when a visit starts, and ends. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	14 months
cc_cookie_accept	Website	Stores whether the user has accepted the cookie message or not. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.	365 days
_BEAMER_XXXXXX	Beamer	Tracking for what product announcement posts have been seen by the current logged in user in the manager.	1 year
_plantrack	Planhat	Provides analytical information about the current platform user to Planhat (our CRM) in order to improve your experience working with us.	1 year

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.

Cookie Name	Used by	Description	Expiration
NID	Google	Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user's device. Can be used for targeted ads. It does not contain any personal information.	6 months
collect	Google Analytics	Used to send data to Google Analytics a user's device and behaviour. It does not contain any personal information.	End of session
r/collect	Doubeclick.net	These cookies are managed by DoubleClick, an advertising platform we use to display adverts.	End of session
IDE, DSID, _ct_rmm	Doubleclick.net	These cookies are managed by DoubleClick, an advertising platform we use to display adverts.	2 years
DisplayName	Website	Keeps track of a donors preference to show their name during a Direct Debit.	End of session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Youtube	Used by Youtube if you've embedded a Youtube video in your posts. Tries to estimate a user's bandwidth on pages with integrated Youtube videos. It does not contain any personal information.	179 days
YSC	Youtube	Used by Youtube if you've embedded a Youtube video in your posts. Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from Youtube a user has seen. It does not contain any personal information	End of sessi

How do I change my cookie settings?

If you select ‘Accept Cookies’ then our standard cookies will be used. These include “essential” cookies, as well as additional cookies including those that allow us to use website analytics to understand more about our website visitors.

If, subsequently, you would like to amend you cookie settings then most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Updates to our Cookie Policy coming soon

Friends of the Lake District is in the process of implementing further functionality with regard to changing and editing your cookie preferences. In conjunction with our website provider Raising IT, we aim to develop and implement enhanced functionality in line with ICO (Information Commissioner Office) and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) guidance to allow an option to Accept or Decline cookies when prompted, replacing the current ‘Accept’ cookies option. The newer selection will have the following effect:

If you select the ‘Decline Cookies’ option it will mean that no cookies will be used on the site apart from session cookies and a cookie so that the bar will no longer appear when you are browsing the site - these are “essential” cookies for the website functionality.

If you do not select either ‘Accept’ or ‘Decline’ then no cookies will be used on the site apart from session cookies.

We are also looking to implement functionality which will allow you to update your cookie settings at any time from our Cookie Policy wording page rather than relying on your website browser functionality to achieve this.

If you have any queries about Cookies used on our website, please email us at [email protected]

Cookie Policy August 2020

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