Cookie Policy

Our websites use cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit almost any website. They are stored by your internet browser. Cookies contain basic information about your internet use, but they do not normally identify you personally. Your browser sends these cookies back to the site every time you revisit it, so it can recognise your computer or mobile device and personalise it accordingly to improve your site experience.

Which cookies do we use?

We use some cookies which are necessary to help you access and move around our sites and use all its features. Without these cookies, our websites would not work properly and you would not be able to use certain important features. We also use cookies to help us understand how our website is being used and how we can improve your experience on it. This provides us with anonymous information to help us understand which parts of our site are of most interest to our visitors and monitor how our visitors reach us. These cookies are commonly referred to as ‘Analytics’ and ‘Performance’ cookies.

Our cookies help us:

• Make our websites work as you'd expect
• Save you having to login every time you visit the sites or individual pages
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Improve the speed/security of the sites
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
• Continuously improve our websites for you
• Make our marketing more efficient

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass data to advertising networks
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• Pay sales commissions

We use cookies to make our website work including:

• Determining if you are logged in or not
• Remembering your search settings
• Allowing you to add comments to our site

Your consent

When navigating on our website (mappingofrchange.org.uk), we disable non-essential cookies (i.e. cookies which are not essential to the functioning of our website) before you provide us with your consent. We take your answer to the pop-up message which displays on our website, and the continuous use of our website, as your consent. Should you wish so, you can disable certain non-essential cookies which will be blocked during your navigation on our website, by changing your browser’s cookie setting. For more information, please refer to the paragraph below, ‘How do I change my cookie settings?’.

When navigating on our platform, Community Maps (communitymaps.org.uk), we ask for your consent to all the cookies we run to ensure the proper functioning of the platform. On this platform, we do not disable the use of cookies once you have accessed our maps as they are vital to the functioning of the platform. You are informed of this via a pop-up message which displays before you access our platform.

You are welcome not to use our services if you do not consent to us using cookies to run the platform.

Please refer to the table below to see which cookies we use and why.

In addition, should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our websites you can learn how to do

this below, however doing so will likely mean that our websites will not work as you would expect.

How do I change my cookie settings?

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 and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

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

Cookies on our website: mappingforchange.org.uk