Cookies
Cookie Policy: Ovarian Cancer Action: website ovarian.org.uk and subdomain donate.ovarian.org.uk
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, phone or other device by websites that you visit. Similar technologies, such as tags, pixels, beacons or floodlights, will also be referred to as cookies for the purposes of this Policy and our cookie consent banner.
Cookies are widely used to make websites work more efficiently for visitors, to personalise content and advertising, to provide social media features, and to provide information to the website owners about site traffic.
Cookies collect information related to the devices and browser you used to access the internet and your browsing history. In some cases, tags are used to transfer data collected by the website owner about your visit to third parties, e.g. Facebook and Google.
How do we use cookies on our website ovarian.org.uk and subdomain donate.ovarian.org.uk?
At Ovarian Cancer Action, we aim to minimise the cookies running on our websites and subdomains and we regularly review our cookie usage.
We will use cookies to:
- Enable effective and secure navigation through our websites
- Understand your preferences so that we can personalise our service to you for example present more relevant content
- Monitor, and therefore improve, the effectiveness of our website
- Compile usage statistics so that we can proactively identify ways in which our website and online services can be improved, e.g. by understand which content is in high demand to those we support, we can focus our future content production on those topics
- Monitor digital advertising performance to enable us to generate the best possible outcomes for our charity
Some of our cookies are session based, which means that they will expire and be deleted when you close your browser, while others are persistent and will remain on your browser or device until either they expire, or you manually delete them from your browser history.
Some cookies, are essential because the allow our website to function. Others are analytical cookies or marketing cookies (also known as advanced) you choose your cookie settings for these at the bottom of this page. You can change your cookie preferences for our websites at any time by using the form below. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect. We use some third-party cookies on our website(s) for marketing and advertising purposes, e.g. Facebook.
We may use tags to transfer some data collected about your visit to third parties. The type of data which may be tracked and shared in this way is limited to:
Your interactions with the website and any adverts running, e.g. if you watch a video, download content or click on an advertisement
Data about your journey to, through and from our site.
Cookies currently in use on our website ovarian.org.uk and subdomain donate.ovarian.org.uk
The tables below explain the cookies we use and why.
| Name | Owner | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
| CONSENT | google.com | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | 2 years | HTTP |
| CONSENT | youtube.com | Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website. | 2 years | HTTP |
| csrftoken | Ovarian.org.uk | Helps prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. | 1 year | HTTP |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | donate.ovarian.org.uk | Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests. | Session | HTTP |
| test_cookie | doubleclick.net | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | 1 day | HTTP |
Functional cookies
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
| Name | Owner | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
| cookie_preferences_saved | ovarian.org.uk | To determine if the user has saved their cookie preferences | 1 year | HTTPS |
| analytics_cookie_consent | ovarian.org.uk | To determine if the user has saved their cookie preferences | 1 year | HTTPS |
| advanced_tracking_cookie_consent | ovarian.org.uk | To determine if the user has saved their cookie preferences | 1 year | HTTPS |
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with our websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously about how the site is navigated and what features are used. They allow us to measure and improve the performance of our sites, our online services, and our digital advertising campaigns.
| Name | Owner | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
| _ga | https://www.googletagmanager.com/ | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 2 years | HTTP |
| _gat | https://www.googletagmanager.com/ | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | 1 day | HTTP |
| _gid | https://www.googletagmanager.com/ | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | 1 day | HTTP |
| _fbp | https://www.facebook.com | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months | HTTP |
| fr | https://www.facebook.com | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | 3 months | HTTP |
| tr | https://www.facebook.com | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | Session | Pixel |
Marketing Cookies (advanced cookies)
Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites to personalise content and advertisements.
| Name | Owner | Purpose | Expiry | Type |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | youtube.com | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 179 days | HTTP |
| YSC | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Session | HTTP |
| yt.innertube::nextId | youtube.com | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | HTML | Persistent |
| yt.innertube::requests | youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | HTML | Persistent |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | HTML | Persistent |
| yt-remote-cast-available | Youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | HTTP | Session |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | HTTP | Session |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | HTML | Persistent |
| yt-remote-device-id | youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | HTML | Persistent |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | HTTP | Session |
| yt-remote-session-app | youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | HTTP | Session |
| yt-remote-session-name | youtube.com | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | HTTP | Session |
| pagead/1p-conversion/# | google.com | Inline script, page source line number 68-76 | Pixel | Session |
| IDE | doubleclick.net | Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking on e of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user. | Session | 1 year |
| pagead/viewthroughconversion/479773100 | doubleclick.net | Unclassified | Pixel | Session |
How do I change my cookie settings?
You can change your cookie preferences for our websites at any time by using the form below. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
Alternatively, most web browsers allow cookies to be managed through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.