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Cookie policy

This policy

This cookie policy is served by Goodheart Animal Sanctuaries, The Nickless Farm, Milson, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, DY14 0BE under the website; https://www.goodheartanimalsanctuaries.com.

The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we use cookies and similar technologies to recognise you when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them. 

What are cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer to improve your experience.

This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

For more general information on cookies, head to www.cookieconsent.com/what-are-cookies.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below.

Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help Section for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The cookies we set

Email newsletters related cookies

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

Donation, membership, and orders processing related cookies

This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

Survey related cookies

From time to time, we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

Form related cookies

When you submit data to us through a form such as those found on contact or payment pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Site preferences cookies

In order to provide you with the best experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third party cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

Analytics and customization cookies:
 
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website for you.
 
Name:_gid
Purpose:Keeps an entry of unique ID which is then used to come up with statistical data on website usage by visitors. It is a HTTP cookie type and expires after a browsing session.
Provider:.goodheartanimalsanctuaries.com
Service:Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy
Country:United States
Type:http_cookie
Expires in:1 day
Name:_ga
Purpose:It records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user. It is a HTTP cookie that expires after 2 years.
Provider:.goodheartanimalsanctuaries.com
Service:Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy
Country:United States
Type:http_cookie
Expires in:1 year 11 months 29 days
Name:_gat#
Purpose:Enables Google Analytics regulate the rate of requesting. It is a HTTP cookie type that lasts for a session.
Provider:.goodheartanimalsanctuaries.com
Service:Google Analytics View Service Privacy Policy
Country:United States
Type:http_cookie
Expires in:1 minute

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

Essential website cookies:

These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Websites and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.

Name:__tlbcpv
Purpose:Used to record unique visitor views of the consent banner.
Provider:.termly.io
Service:Termly View Service Privacy Policy
Country:United States
Type:http_cookie
Expires in:1 year
Name:incap_ses_#
Purpose:Preserves user states across page requests. It is a HTTP cookie that expires at the end of a browsing session.
Provider:.blackbaud.com
Service:SiteLock TrueShield Firewall. View Service Privacy Policy
Country:United States
Type:http_cookie
Expires in:session

Performance and functionality cookies:

These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.

Name:NSC_#
Purpose:Used to ensure traffic and user data are routed to the correct locations where a site is hosted on multiple servers, so that the end user has a consistent experience. It is also a HTTP cookie that expires at the end of a session.
Provider:app.etapestry.com
Service:Netscaler Load Balancer View Service Privacy Policy
Country:United States
Type:server_cookie
Expires in:session
Name:AWSELB
Purpose:Used as a load balancer for web applications hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Provider:payments.blackbaud.com
Service:Amazon Web Services View Service Privacy Policy
Country:United States
Type:http_cookie
Expires in:40 minutes
Name:GPS
Purpose:A session cookie that registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location.Expires after 30 minutes.
Provider:.youtube.com
Service:Youtube View Service Privacy Policy
Country:United States
Type:server_cookie
Expires in:30 minutes
Advertising cookies:
 
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
 
Name:IDE
Purpose:Used to measure the conversion rate of ads presented to the user. Expires in 1.5 years.
Provider:.doubleclick.net
Service:DoubleClick View Service Privacy Policy
Country:United States
Type:http_cookie
Expires in:1 year 11 months 29 days
Name:YSC
Purpose:YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time.
Provider:.youtube.com
Service:YouTube View Service Privacy Policy
Country:United States
Type:http_cookie
Expires in:session
Name:VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Purpose:YouTube is a Google-owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. Used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time.
Provider:.youtube.com
Service:YouTube View Service Privacy Policy
Country:United States
Type:http_cookie
Expires in:5 months 27 days

 

Updates to this policy

This policy was last updated in October 2020. It was re-worded to give you further information about how we collect and use cookies.

We reserve the right to amend or update this policy at any time to consider any updates to legislation. When further updates to the policy are made, they will be posted on this page, so please check back here regularly. Any significant changes will be notified to you. 

 

Contact us

If you have any queries, please contact us using the details below, and we will be more than happy to help.

Phone: 01584 891 143 

Email: info@goodheart.org.uk 

Post: The Nickless Farm, Milson, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, DY14 0BE