Cookies on this website
Our website uses cookies, as most websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.Cookies and how they benefit you
Our cookies help us:- Make our website work as you would expect.
- Remember your settings during and between visits.
- Improve the speed/security of the site.
- Enable you to share pages with social networks like Facebook.
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (reducing costs for the charity).
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission).
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission).
- Pass data to advertising networks.
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties.
- Pay sales commissions.
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept our cookies, we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site, you can learn how to do this below, but doing so may mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our cookies
We have set out below the cookies used on our website. Not all of these cookies are used on every page, and many are only used when delivering content via third parties.Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Determining if you are logged in or not.
- Determining the format in which to display content to you.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:- Engaging Networks (policies) - We sometimes embed petition or contact forms from Engaging Networks, a service that supports our campaigning work.
- Flickr (privacy policy) - We sometimes host images or galleries from the photo sharing site Flickr, which may also generate cookies from its owner, Yahoo.
- Google (privacy policy) - We use Google Maps as a source of free interactive maps for our websites.
- SurveyGizmo (privacy policy) - We embed SurveyGizmo content on some web pages to create enquiry or registration forms.
- WorldPay (privacy policy) - We take some donations and manage international book sales through WorldPay.
- YouTube (owned by Google - privacy policy) - Powers some of the videos on our site.
Social website cookies
So you can easily "Like" or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site. Cookies are set by:- Disqus (privacy policy) - Provides the comments on our blog posts. Disqus itself also uses cookies from Google Analytics, and from Quantcast (privacy policy), a measurement and research company that gathers usage data on Disqus's behalf.
- Facebook (data use policy) - For the "Like" button.
- Google (privacy policy) - For the "+1" button. If you use the +1 button, you may additionally set cookies from DoubleClick and YouTube (both owned by Google).
- Twitter (privacy policy) - The "Tweet" button will set cookies when used.
Site improvement cookies
We sometimes test new designs or site features on our site. We do this by showing slightly different versions of our website to different people and anonymously monitoring how our site visitors respond to these different versions. Ultimately this helps us to offer you a better website. We use:- Google Analytics Content Experiments (privacy policy)
Anonymous visitor statistics cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, which pages they look at, etc. This information is recorded anonymously. We use:- Google Analytics (privacy policy) - This enables us to see how people find our website, measure the popularity of individual web pages, and improve our site based on how people use it, to provide the best service we can.
Turning cookies off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (learn how to turn cookies off here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our websites, and a large proportion of other websites, as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites. To exclude cookies from a specific source, reference the relevant domain from this list in your browser's cookie settings:| Source | Domain(s) |
|---|---|
| Leonard Cheshire Disability | .lcdisability.org or other LCD website domain (e.g.: .lcint.org, .actionforaccess.org, .parkhousehotel.org.uk) |
| Active Network | .active.com, activeeurope.com |
| Disqus | .disqus.com |
| DoubleClick | .doubleclick.net |
| Engaging Networks | .e-activist.com |
| .facebook.com | |
| Flickr | .flickr.com |
| .google.co.uk, .google.com | |
| Quantserve | .quantserve.com |
| SurveyGizmo | .sgizmo.com |
| .twitter.com | |
| WorldPay | .rbsworldpay.com, .worldpay.com |
| Yahoo | .yahoo.com |
| YouTube | .youtube.com |