COOKIES NOTICE

There are two broad types of cookies:

1.  First party cookies: these are cookies that are served directly by the website operator to your computer and are often used to recognise your computer when it revisits that site and to remember your preferences as you browse the site. Basically, these are our cookies.

2.  Third party cookies: these are installed by parties other than the owner of the website a user visits. We use third party cookies for functionality, performance/analytics.

In addition, cookies may be either ‘session cookies’ or ‘persistent cookies’. Your computer automatically removes session cookies once you close your browser. Persistent cookies will survive on your computer until the expiry date, specified in the cookie itself, is reached. We use both session and persistent cookies.

Wherever it is practical to do so, we use anonymous cookies. These are cookies that allow us to understand your use of our website but without capturing any information that could be used to identify you as an individual – such as an ‘Internet Protocol (IP) Address’.

Where a cookie does capture information, such as IP address, that can identify you; and where the cookie is not essential for you to be able to use our website, we ask for your consent before placing the cookie on your device.

Some cookies are essential for the effective functioning of the website. We are unable to offer you the option to opt-out of these cookies due to this essential nature.

Essential Website Cookies: these cookies are essential to provide you with the website and its services. Without these cookies, services such as secure login accounts would not be possible.

Functionality Cookies: these cookies remember choices made by or attributes of the user and enhance the features and content you experience during your visit to our website, e.g. language, appeals visited or user’s location. This cookie is also used to remember a user’s preferences for a font size or customisable parts of a web page.

Analytics and Performance Cookies: we use performance/analytics cookies to analyse how the website is accessed, used, or is performing in order to provide you with a better user experience and to maintain, operate and continually improve the website. These cookies do not collect information that identifies the user.

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We may collect some, or all, of the information available from cookies when you visit our website, depending on how you use it. We monitor how people use our website, so we can improve it. We collect this information anonymously.

However, you can choose to use our website anonymously without giving us any information. Please see ‘Changing your cookie preferences’ below.

If you visit our website, we may use cookies to record information about:

– The areas of the website you visit
– The amount of time you spend on the site
– Whether you are new to the site, or have visited it before
– The country, region, city, and/or borough associated with your IP address or device
– How you came to our website – for example, through an email link or a search engine
– The type of device and browser you use
– How you use the website and the quality of your experience – for example, we may track your bandwidth when viewing videos
– How you interact with our donation and sign up forms – for example, what you select as your communication preferences
– Any error messages that you receive on the site
– We use cookies to track how visitors come to our site. For example, we use marketing or referring tracking codes in internet addresses (URLs) to show us whether a visitor has come to our site via a link on a referring website or in a specific piece of marketing and to give us insight into the effectiveness of our marketing.

We will occasionally update this Cookie Notice to reflect changes in our practices and services. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Cookie Notice or any of our other policies. This version was last updated on 11/04/2023.

If you have disabled one or more cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies prior to your disabled preference being set, however, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information.

Changing your cookie preferences
The ‘Help’ menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser’s cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies altogether. Below is some helpful guidance about how to make these changes.

How to disable cookies
If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer and you wish to block OSM Thome’s website cookies, you can perform the following:
1.  On your browser tools menu, select ‘Internet Options’
2.  Click on the ‘Privacy’ tab and then on the ‘Sites’ button
3.  Type into the ‘Address of website’ field: www.osmthome.com
4.  Click on the ‘Block’ button
5.  Click on the OK button

Find out more information about blocking or deleting cookies using Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Other browsers:
Firefox cookie management
Chrome cookie management
Safari cookie management

Find out more detailed information on disabling cookies on the All About Cookies website.