Welcome to Social Firms Wales’s Cookies Notice. This Cookies Notice (including the referenced websites) provides comprehensive information on everything you need to understand regarding how Social Firms Wales uses cookies.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact our Chief Executive Officer, Rosie Cribb on [email protected].
1. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file containing letters and numbers that is stored on your browser, computer or mobile device's hard drive if you consent. Cookies are safe for your devices as they cannot access other content on your device, nor do they create malware or viruses.
2. Are there different types of cookies?
Cookies fall into two main categories: session cookies or persistent cookies.
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Session cookies – These last for the duration of your visit to a website.
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Persistent cookies – These stay on your device even when you close the browser.
These cookies are further broken down into four main types of cookies.
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Strictly necessary cookies – These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
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Functionality cookies – These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to remember your preferences.
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Analytical and performance cookies – These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works.
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Marketing cookies – These cookies record your visit to our website and what you’ve clicked on. Some of our cookies collect data for more than one use. We will only use strictly necessary cookies for their essential purposes unless you have given us consent to any other uses that they have.
3. What about third-party cookies?
As we use third parties when providing you with our website, we need to let you know that there are third parties that may also use cookies on your browser or hard-drive and we have no control over them when they do this.
These third parties may include, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are analytical and performance cookies. If you do not feel comfortable with this, you can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you do use your browser setting to block all cookies (including strictly necessary and therefore essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
4. What happens if you change or turn off one or more types of cookies in your browser?
You can visit the “options” or “preferences” menu or your browser to change your settings. You may find it useful to check out the following useful links which give you advice based on the browser your using:
We are not responsible for the information on any of the websites above, but we're happy to recommend them.
You can also choose to entirely turn off or delete cookies in your browser. If you do this, it may affect websites that use similar cookies to us. This is because, for example, the cookies choices you set in your browser replace any cookies choices you set on a single website.
5. Would a cookie be considered your personal data?
As cookies allow us to identify you as an individual, we have your personal data in our systems. We believe in the importance of data privacy and treat your personal data with the utmost of care. If you would like to find out more about this, please take a look at our Privacy Notice .
6. When was this Cookies Notice last updated?
This Cookies Notice was last updated on 26 June 2024 and is regularly kept under review and updated as and when necessary and at a minimum on annual basis. If you have any questions, please contact our Chief Executive Officer, Rosie Cribb on [email protected].