Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy (“Cookie Policy”) explains how Crimestoppers Trust ("we", "us", "our") uses cookies and other tracking technologies (as described below) through our website crimestoppers-uk.org (the “website”). We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected, and this website respects any consent you have given via the Cookiebot pop-up, which is displayed when you visit our website. This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal information. 

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies and how to manage the cookies used on the website.

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please feel free to contact us using the details set out in the ‘Contact Us’ section at the bottom of this policy. 

1. What are cookies?

A ‘cookie’ is a small text file that is placed on your computer, phone or other devices by a website when you visit it. There are several types of cookie, each of which has a different function or use. Cookies contain details of your browsing history on the website, distinguish you from other users and remember information about you, such as your login information. Cookies send data back to the originating website on each subsequent visit or allow another website to recognise the cookie.

Cookies serve the purpose of making our website function in more user friendly and effective ways, and to tailor the website operations to your needs and preferences, analyse website usage and generally improve your online user experience. Cookies can also provide useful data to be used in effective marketing. 

Although this Cookie Policy refers to the general term ‘cookie’, it also applies to similar tracking technologies that we use (such as ‘pixel tags’).

You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.

2. How do we use cookies?

We use cookies and similar technologies (such as tags and pixels) on our website to:

• Enable the website to function
• Help users navigate around the website and speed up searches 
• Work out whether the website is working well
• Gather statistics on how our website is being used (including for example to see which pages of the website are the most popular and how users are interacting with them), which can help us to improve it
• Analyse how individuals interact with us so we can improve our services
• Recognise, but not identify, you when you return to our website
• Ensure that our website is secure – for example, to make sure that if you provide personal information to us, it does not fall into the wrong hands.

3. What type of cookies do we use?

The cookies that we use can have different characteristics. For example: 

• Session Cookies – Some of the cookies that we use are Session Cookies. These are deleted when you close your browser. 
• Persistent Cookies – These cookies stay on your browser or device until they expire (at which point they get automatically deleted) or until you delete them from your browser history.

All cookies have an owner. You can identify the owner by looking at the domain. The domain is the company or website name in the cookie.

Cookies can be first-party, which means that they’re owned by Crimestoppers. Alternatively, cookies can be third-party. This means they’re not owned by the website who set them, in this case crimestoppers-uk.org, and the relevant information may be accessible to third parties. By way of example, to the extent that we use Google Analytics (and where you provide your consent to the placement of the relevant cookies on your device), your information may be accessible to Google. For more information about how Google handles personal information, please see Google’s Business data responsibility site here.

We use both first-party and third-party cookies on our website.

4. What categories of cookies do we use?