Cookies & IP Addresses

What are cookies?

A cookie is a text file that is created and stored by your browser when you visit a website. They are useful for remembering things like logins, user-preferences and behaviour.

What is an IP address?

An IP address is a label which is used to identify one or more devices on a computer network, such as the internet. It is comparable to a postal address. The IP address of the device you are using online may change from time to time but it will always be able to be recorded by the server for any current session.

Use of ‘functional’ cookies by this site.

We use very few cookies of our own as there are no public logins nor commenting. There are some session cookies that are set by WordPress and our contact form but these are removed when you leave the site and do not track or attempt to identify a user in any way.

Other cookies set on this site.

We may display Social Media feeds and embedded third-party services on this site as follows:

Vimeo
We use a WordPress plugin to embed videos from Vimeo. If a user has clicked the additional ‘Accept’ button in the video player then Vimeo will set (accurate at time of writing, January 2022) two cookies – vuid with an expiry date of 2 years, used to monitor the player performance, and player with an expiry date of 1 year – neither of these cookies are used to track individuals.
Link: Vimeo cookie notice.
Facebook
We may use a WordPress plugin to embed Facebook Posts on this site. Unless there is any user-initiated action (such as Sharing a Post) then no cookies are set.
Link: Facebook cookie notice.
YouTube
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE – if ‘Accept all’ has been clicked in our cookie notice then YouTube will set this cookie – it is used to measure user bandwidth and deliver content accordingly. Has an expiry date of 8 months. Again, if ‘Accept all’ was clicked then YouTube set an additional cookie called YSC which is set on pages with embedded YouTube video – it’s a purely functional ‘Session’ Cookie and will be deleted when you next close your browser.
Link: YouTube’s embedded video information page
Google
We do not use Google Analytics nor do we serve any adverts but, on our contact form we may use Google reCAPTCHA V3 to minimise spam and the 3 cookies are set there by google.com: OTZ, CONSENT and NID.
Google cookies may also be set by Google when visiting an Event page where we display a Google map. These are NID, ANID, and CONSENT.
Link: How Google uses cookies

IP address usage, Facebook.

Facebook ‘feed’: We use a Facebook Feed plugin to display social media content on our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Facebook’s servers in order to display text, images and videos. These requests make your IP address visible to Facebook, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.
We may embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see information about, and “like”, our Facebook page. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking” our Facebook page), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.
In order to improve performance, we may load the font file used in the Facebook feed from a Content Delivery Network (StackPath CDN). As a result, our website makes requests to the StackPath CDN servers in order to retrieve the file. These requests make your IP address visible to StackPath CDN, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.stackpath.com/legal/privacy-statement/

Our Privacy Policy

You may view this site’s Privacy Policy here.