Cookie Compliance
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are stored to your computer by your web-browser.
A typical example of how a cookie is used is to store a user ID to make logging in to a site, or ordering something much quicker for the user. An example of what the cookie might contain in this instance would something like "ID=96352398".
Popular sites like Amazon.com use this technique.
Nearly every site on the internet uses Cookies. They are used, for a variety of purposes:
- To personalise pages and remember visitor preferences.
- To analyse visitor behaviour (known as 'analytics')
- To manage items added to shopping carts in online stores
- To track people across websites and deliver targeted advertising
How we use your information
This privacy notice tells you what to expect when Organic Development collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about:
- visitors to our websites
- people who use our services, eg who subscribe to our newsletter or send enquiries through our website
Visitors to our websites
When someone visits www.kingshealthpartners.org we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting the site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information.
Use of cookies by King's Health Partners
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
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Cookie |
Name |
Purpose |
More information |
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Google Analytics |
_utma |
Type: Optional Cookie
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Click here for an overview of privacy at Google |
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User ID |
KHP |
Type: Functional cookie This cookie is used to store a reference to data stored in the site database. This is commonly used to store logged in user sessions.
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Organic Development Cookie Acceptance Cookie |
cookies_allowed |
Type: Functional Cookie |
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guest_id |
Type: Functional cookie Twitter guest ID, used to display news through a twitter feed to visitors. |
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Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
YouTube cookies
From Time to Time we embed videos from YouTube 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. To find out more please visit YouTube's embedding videos information page.
Links to other websites
This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
Changes to this privacy notice
We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 5th July 2012.
How to contact us
Requests for information about our privacy policy can be emailed to kingshealthpartners@kcl.ac.uk
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