1. Introduction
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Charity (RWT Charity) uses cookies and similar technologies to improve your experience on our website www.rwtnhscharity.co.uk, understand how you use our site, and for advertising purposes. This policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e., the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences.
2. What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
3. How Do We Use Cookies?
Our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our websites are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
4. What Types of Cookies Do We Use?
- Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information.
- Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
- Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.
- Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content on the website on social media platforms.
- Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
5. How to Control Your Cookies?
Different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, allaboutcookies.org.
6. GDPR Cookie Compliance
In compliance with the GDPR, our website uses the GDPR Cookie Compliance plugin by mooveagency. This plugin ensures that no cookies are loaded on your browser until you have given us your active consent. You can manage your cookie preferences on our website at any time to review and adjust your consent.
7. Changes to the Cookie Policy
We may update this cookie policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this cookie policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at rwh-tr.fundraisingteam@nhs.net.