Your questions answered about how this website uses Internet browser cookies

What are cookies?

This cookie policy, updated on 17 December 2022, sets out how The National Mikey Powell Memorial Family Fund website uses cookies, what functions they perform and what steps you can take to control them.

If you have opted out of allowing cookies on this website it may affect your ability to use some of our on-site facilities. Cookies are small files placed on your computer or hand-held device.

How we use cookies

This website uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your computer drive to help the site provide a better user experience.

When you first visit our website it will ask for permission to place cookies on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or remember your preferences. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. 

The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Here are the basics

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used or visited. 
This helps us to analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to user and / or customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

Advisory: We suggest consulting the help section of your browser or taking a look at 
the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
Types of cookies

Persistent cookies
These cookies remain on a user's device for the period of time that is specified within the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.

Session cookies
These cookies enable services that you may have specifically asked for. For any types of cookies that are strictly necessary, no consent is required. Therefore, by using the website, you agree for these types of cookies to be placed on your device.

Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies also enable services that you may have specifically asked for. For any types of cookies that are strictly necessary, no consent is required. Therefore, by using the website, you agree for these types of cookies to be placed on your device.

These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They are used for features such as e-commerce baskets, site login and user tracking etc, to ensure that users can navigate the site effectively.

These cookies are not available to any third party websites and are not used to track behaviour or to place personalised adverts or any other such content.
Functionality cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) to improve your experience and provide enhanced, more personalised features. 

These cookies can also be used to remember any preference changes you may have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. 

They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog.

You can control or delete these type of cookies in your browser settings.

Performance cookies
These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use the website, for instance the number of visits, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. 

These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. They are only used to improve how the website works.

You can control or delete these type of cookies in your browser settings.
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