Cookie notice

What are cookies

Every time you visit our website, it sends us a cookie. This is a text file that tells us about your visit. The information is all anonymous, so we’re told about your computer, not you. And when the data comes to us it’s bulked together with information from all the other visitors to our site. Cookies tell us, for example, about traffic data, location data, device information, the date and time people visit and the pages they visit.

Most major websites use cookies. You can find out more at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

How we use cookies in Tearfund Community

As we respect your right to privacy, you can choose to turn cookies on or off. To make the most of our community you should leave cookies turned on, otherwise some parts of the site will not then work as expected.

Cookies help us:

  • customise what you see when you visit our community, and help us understand what would interest you
  • process any requests, applications or transactions
  • do our internal administration and analysis

Third-party cookies

There are a few external companies like HotJar and Google Analytics that Tearfund works with who set cookies on our community. These cookies are mainly used for reporting so we can improve the community.

All information we get through Google's cookies is anonymous, it just helps us understand how people use our website and which pages are more popular. If you don’t want Google to include you in this information, you can install the Google Analytics Opt Out Tool

We use websites like Youtube and Vimeo to embed videos, and they may send you cookies too. We don’t control the setting of these cookies, so check those websites for more information.

List of cookies

Name of cookie owner/service Associated cookies Description
Verint ( Community platform ) Telligent.Evolution-UI Default cookie used for storing values from widgets. This stores the user's view preferences for blog post lists and forum thread lists. Can be disabled via widget code (BlogPostList and ForumThreadList)
Verint ( Community platform ) tzoffset Determines a user's time zone offset for use when creating an account. Can be disabled via widget code. (User - Login and Create)
Verint ( Community platform ) tzid Determines a user's time zone offset for use when creating an account. Can be disabled via widget code. (User - Login and Create)
Google Analytics _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmt, _utmz, _dc_gtm_UA, _ga, _gat, _gid, collect, _utmli

_utma - Tracking Code that logs details about the visitor’s browser and computer.

_utmb - Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit.

_utmc - Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the website.

_utmt - Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server.

_utmz - Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search time was used.

dc_gtm_UA - Used by Google Tag Manager to control the loading of a Google Analytics script tag.

_ga - Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

_gat - Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.

_gid - Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

Collect - Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.