Cookie Policy
Google+What are cookies?
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 better, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. A cookie often contains a unique number, which can be used to recognise your computer when a user of your computer returns to a website that it visited previously.
How do the Jesuits in Britain use cookies?
We use cookies to enhance the online experience of our visitors, to better understand how our websites are used. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited our site before or whether you are a new visitor.
Your rights
Our cookies do not store financial information or information which is capable of directly identifying you (such as your name or address). You have the right to choose whether to accept these cookies. You can exercise this right by amending or setting the controls on your browser to reflect your cookie preferences. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
Below you can find the cookies we use on this website which includes www.jesut.org.uk and www.jesuit.org.uk/vocations
| Cookie provider | Cookie name | Cookie description |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | _ga | Used to distinguish users. |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | |
| _gat | Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>. | |
| Jesuit.org.uk | has_js | This cookie records whether the site has JavaScript enabled. |
| tfw_exp | This cookie is set due to Twitter integration and sharing capabilities for social media. | |
| YouTube | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube Bandwidth Measurement. |
| PREF | Used by YouTube for preferences. | |
| YSC | Used by YouTube (Google) for storing user preferences and other unspecified purposes. |
Changing your cookie preferences
The "Help" menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser's cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether. An online guide is available (link is external) if you have difficulties trying to change your browser settings.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics 360 is a web analytics service provided by Google inc. that enables us to measure how people use our website using cookies. We use this information to improve our website experience for website visitors.
For those site visitors who have explicitly opted in to Google’s data privacy policy, Google will associate your IP address with other data held by Google in order to identify you across multiple devices. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. You may also stop the transmission of information generated by the cookies about your use of the website and of your IP address to Google, by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Broswer Add-on available here https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Google Analytics privacy policy
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Hotjar
HotJar is a website analytics tool we use to see how our supporters are moving around our website and get feedback through surveys, so that we can improve their experience and help ensure they can find what they are looking for.
https://www.hotjar.com/privacy