Cookies policy
York & Scarborough Hospitals Charity's website uses cookies to optimise users’ experience on the site. A cookie is a small text file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. They are used to improve the performance of the website and the services you receive. For example, cookies may be used to:
- Enable the site to recognise your device so you do not need to give the same information repeatedly
- Recognise when you have already given a username and password so that you do not need to do so for every subsequent web page you visit
- Measure how many people are using the services we provide, so we can make them easier and faster to use
- Analyse data, anonymously, so that we can improve our site to according to users’ needs and preferences
The cookies used by this website do not contain any of your personal information and they can not be used to identify you personally. Many cookies are automatically deleted after you finish using the website. You can choose to reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent if you wish. However, it is important to be aware that some website features or services may not function properly without cookies.
If you continue without changing your settings, we will accept your consent to receive these cookies from the charity's website. However, if you wish to change your privacy settings at any time, instructions and guidance on how to remove cookies from your device, or how to block individual cookies from being received, can be found at www.aboutcookies.org.
Types of cookies
Below are details of cookies you may encounter while visiting this website. Click here to manage non-essential cookies.
Essential cookies
Unicity – uni_cookies and PHPSESSID
Functional cookies used for storing the user’s cookie preferences and for website logins. These are essential for the site to function correctly and can’t be turned off.
Stripe
Payment provider for donation forms.
Non-essential cookies
ShareThis
Social media sharing widget, shown on news and you've funded it articles. This is a functional cookie and will be blocked from loading if functional cookies are not enabled.
Google Analytics (GA4)
York & Scarborough Hospitals Charity uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on your computer. Although these cookies are not essential to the core function of the website, they are useful in enabling the charity to measure the performance of our website and online experience.
Google Analytics does not collect any personal information such as your name, address or contact details. All the information collected is anonymous. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html