Cookie policy
What Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
Forms
When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence and/or for managing spam submissions.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
Google Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
Embedded content
Some of the content on our site is provided by third parties. This includes but is not limited to: Google Maps for interactive mapping, ShareThis for content sharing, YouTube or Vimeo for hosted video and Flickr for images. When you visit a page containing content from one of these sites a cookie may be set. We do not have any control over these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
Cookies used on this website
| Provider | Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| .milestonestrust.org.uk | _gid / _ga / _gat / _gat_cqcTracker | Google Universal Analytics sets a unique ID that is used to calculate data for analytics reports. More information about Google privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-GB&gl=uk) | First Party | Browser session to 2 years |
| .milestonestrust.org.uk | catAccCookies | Cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies | First party | 30 days |
| .doubleclick.net | IDE / DSID | Used to identify a browser for advertising purposes and tracking performance and preferences. | Third party | Browser session to 6 months |
| .google.co.uk | 1P_JAR / DV / NID | Google ad personalisation | Third party | Browser session to 6 months |
| .google.co.uk | CONSENT | Cookie consent setting | Third party | 20 years |
| .google.com | NID | Google ad personalisation | Third party | Browser session to 6 months |
| .twitter.com | _ga / _gid / guest_id / personalization_id | Embedded Twitter feed. More about Twitter privacy policy (https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en) | Third party | |
| syndication.twitter.com | lang | Embedded Twitter feed. More about Twitter privacy policy (https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en) | Third party | Browser session |
| .yumpu.com | __asc / __auc / _ga / _gat / _gat_yptrack / _gid / _vwo_uuid_v2 / _ym_isad / _ym_uid / intercom-id-9e7fb24c6e48df26c894b9d2959ebf88dfbc83cd | Embedded annual report widget | Third party | Browser session to 20 years |
| .cqc.org.uk | SERVERID | Embedded Care Quality Commission widget | Third party | Browser session |
| .carehome.co.uk | incap_ses_452_913011 / visid_incap_913011 | Embedded carehome.co.uk widget | Third party | Browser session to 1 year |