Cookies policy

This cookies policy relates to your use of our website, ndcs.org.uk. 

It should be read together with our privacy policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal data generally and other important information relating to your rights in your personal data.

What are cookies? 

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. 

Third-party cookies

We may link to other websites owned and operated by third parties from our website. These other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies, or otherwise use your personal data, in accordance with their own separate policies.

How we use cookies

We use cookies to make our website work and to improve your experience on our website, including:

• determining if you are logged in or not
• remembering your search settings
• remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
• allowing you to add comments to our site
• seeing how you use our site to improve our services and website

Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.

Cookies list

We use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

Cookie preferences

Except for Necessary cookies (which are always set), you can use the cookies consent tools on our website to accept or refuse cookies or to change your cookies preferences at any time.

You can also usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing this may limit the functionality of the website.

You can learn more about third party cookies and how to opt out of these individually by visiting the relevant cookie owner’s website.

For further information about cookies and how to disable them, please go to www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. 

Cookies we use on our My NDCS app

The use of Firebase to track what users do on the app. All data passed through to Firebase analytics is anonymised.

Changes to this policy

We may change this policy from time to time, so please check our website regularly.

If substantive changes are made, we will usually prompt you to update your cookies preferences through our cookies management tool. This will happen when you next visit the site, when you will be asked to select your cookie preferences again. 

Contact us

If you have any questions about this cookies policy, please email dataprotection@ndcs.org.uk.