What are cookies?
Like most other websites, ours uses cookies and similar technologies. A cookie is just a simple text file which contains an identifier used to store basic information and settings relating to your device and preferences.
To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org. If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can set your browser to notify you when you receive one, then choose to decline it.
How do UPP Foundation use cookies?
The first time you visit the our website via a particular device (e.g. your laptop or mobile), we will provide a clear on-screen notification about our cookies and give you the choice if you accept them, decline them or find out more. If you accept we will place the relevant cookies on your device. The next time you visit the website, your device will check to find the relevant cookies and, if your device has them, it sends the cookie information back to the website.
Cookies are really useful because they allow our website to ‘recognise’ you via your device and recall your settings and preferences from previous visits. This helps us in a number of ways, explained below.
Which types of cookie do we use?
We don’t actually use many cookies. The cookies used by UPP Foundation and our service providers are explained in the table below.
Type of cookie Owner Purpose for the cookie Duration
Which types of cookie do we use?
We don’t actually use many cookies. The cookies used by UPP Foundation and our service providers are explained in the table below.
Type of cookie | Owner | Purpose for the cookie | Duration |
Analytics | 4 UPP Foundation cookies
| Google Analytics cookies gather information for us about how people browse around our website. This information is used only to create anonymised reports about the onsite behaviour of our visitors in general. For example, how many visitors we’ve had, which countries they came from, which pages are most popular, how long they stayed on each page, and so on. These reports provide useful information which helps us to manage the website and improve our users’ experience of the site. For more information on Google Analytics, click here. | UPP Foundation use session cookies and those up to 2 years. Google pixel is valid only for your browser session. |
You Tube videos | 8 You Tube cookies | We use You Tube to enable our website users to view UPP Foundation’s own videos on our website. Cookies are used to enable the videos to be presented in the best way to suit your device, to store preferences and to keep statistics of what videos the user has seen. | Some only valid for your session, others are persistent |
Analytics | 2 DoubleClick cookies | These are used to check if the users browser supports cookies and then to register and to report the user’s actions after viewing or clicking on other ads UPP Foundation’s other videos. | One for only 1 day, the other for 1 year |
Your right to manage cookies
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