Cookie policy – St Columba’s Hospice Palliative Care, Edinburgh

Cookie policy

Last updated: 20 December 2019.

St Columba’s Hospice (“us”, “we", or “our") uses cookies on stcolumbashospice.org.uk (the “Service”). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies. Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What are cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

How St Columba’s Hospice uses cookies

When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies to enable certain functions of the Service, and to provide analytics. We use analytics cookies to collect information on website activity (such as the number of users who visit our website, the date and time of visits, the number of pages viewed, navigation patterns, what country and what systems users have used to access the site and, when entering our website from another website, the address of that web site). This information on its own does not identify an individual but it does provide us with statistics that can be used to analyse and improve our website. We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service.

What are your choices regarding cookies

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, it might affect how our website behaves, some of our pages might not display properly and certain functionality may not work.

Where can you find more information about cookies

You can learn more about cookies at the following third-party website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, and so on.