Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to the website and record that you are a user of our website, or whether your web browser has Javascript enabled.
• Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can also find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below.

Cookie List

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

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• apbct_cookies_test, lifespan: session
• apbct_prev_referer, lifespan: session
• apbct_timestamp, lifespan: session
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• ct_pointer_data, lifespan: session
• ct_ps_timestamp, lifespan: session
• ct_timezone, lifespan: session
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• JSESSIONID, lifespan: session

Performance Cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

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• visitor_id, lifespan: 1 year 1 month 4 days

Functional Cookies

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

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Targeting cookies

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Facebook

We use Facebook to communicate with our supporters, through organic and paid advertising. We use cookies to ensure the best results and perform analysis on any paid advertising we do, and we may target you based on your website use.

For more information please see the Facebook privacy policy: www.facebook.com/policy.php 

Bing

Bing is a search platform. We use cookies to ensure we are as efficient as possible with any paid advertising we do with Bing.

For Bing’s privacy policy please visit: privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement 

Google Ads

We use Google Ads to communicate with new and existing supporters about our work. We use cookies to ensure the best results and perform analysis on any paid adverts.

For more information about Google Ads and why you might see an advert, please visit: https://adssettings.google.com/ 

YouTube

We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.

Third Party cookies
A “third-party cookie”, is one stored on your computer by a website different to the one you are visiting at that time. Please note that third parties (including for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Web beacons
A web beacon is a small image file used to track whether someone has accessed a bit of content.

If you are signed up to receive emails from The Salvation Army, we use web beacons (also known as clear GIFs or tracking pixels) to track email open rates and click through rates. You can stop being tracked by web beacons in emails by turning off images in your email. Find out how to do this by checking the help section in your email provider.

Find out more at: www.allaboutcookies.org/faqs/beacons.html

Managing and disabling cookies
You can manage/block cookies by activating the settings on your browser that allows you to refuse the settings of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 5 years.

Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. You can find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them at www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. For information on how to do this on a mobile phone, please refer to the handset instructions.