Cookies
Sight Life abides by its cookies policy. This states that no Sight Life website will use cookies to access or store any personal information about our site visitors. When we do use cookies, we use them to make our website work better for you.
Here, we will give you information on how Sight Life uses cookies, including resources that will allow you to make informed choices about deleting or rejecting any cookies that we use. By using our website, you consent to our use of cookies.
What is a cookie?
A “cookie” is a small data file that is sent from a website to the computer, smartphone or tablet used to view that site. They are stored on the hard drive of your device, and affect the way your device interacts with websites. Some cookies are stored only for the duration of your visit to a website, and others can be stored for longer periods of time, sometimes until you manually clear your browser’s cache.
If you would like more general information about about cookie usage, we recommend for further reading the website About Cookies.
Third-party cookies
A “third-party cookie” is a cookie that has not been directly set by Sight Life, but may be installed on your computer when you use our website to do particular things. They are not set by us, so we cannot directly control how they work, but we make sure that we only use third-party cookies that we trust. We take the privacy of our website users seriously.
We use third-party cookies from the following sources:
- We use Google Analytics cookies to track how visitors interact with our sites, which helps us to improve the way we deliver our website. The information that is collected is anonymous and cannot identify our site visitors. We cannot directly control Google’s cookies when they are active on our sites. Please see more about our Google Analytics usage below.
- “Share” buttons, which allow you to share pages on social media such as Twitter and Facebook, may set a cookie when you log in to share items from Sight Life’s site.
Google Analytics
As a charity that champions accessibility, Sight Life is committed to providing a website that is as user-friendly as it can be. To help us respond to real-life, real-time ways that people find and interact with our site, we need to collect information about how it is used. We do that through Google Analytics, and the third-party cookies that they have developed to allow us to collect that information.
Analytics collect information that includes, but is not limited to, how people find our site, what keywords or search engines they use to reach us, how many people visit each individual page, how long site visitors stay on each page, how many of them are browsing on mobile devices, the languages that they view our site in, and how many people click on each link. Though this information seems very specific, Google Analytics does not record personal information about the users of our site. It comes to us purely in terms of the numbers of people who carry out particular actions.
The below list details the cookies used in our website.
| Cookie | Description |
|---|---|
| __cf_bm | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| _abck | This cookie is used to detect and defend when a client attempt to replay a cookie.This cookie manages the interaction with online bots and takes the appropriate actions. |
| _GRECAPTCHA | Google Recaptcha service sets this cookie to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| _ir | This is a Pinterest cookie that collects information on visitor behaviour on multiple websites. This information is used on the website, in order to optimize the relevance of advertisement. |
| _mc_anon_id | Description is currently not available. |
| _mcid | This is a Mailchimp functionality cookie used to evaluate the UI/UX interaction with its platform |
| ak_bmsc | This cookie is used by Akamai to optimize site security by distinguishing between humans and bots |
| bcookie | LinkedIn sets this cookie from LinkedIn share buttons and ad tags to recognize browser IDs. |
| bm_sz | This cookie is set by the provider Akamai Bot Manager. This cookie is used to manage the interaction with the online bots. It also helps in fraud preventions |
| bscookie | LinkedIn sets this cookie to store performed actions on the website. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-advertisement | Set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin, this cookie records the user consent for the cookies in the "Advertisement" category. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-others | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". |
| CookieLawInfoConsent | CookieYes sets this cookie to record the default button state of the corresponding category and the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. |
| li_gc | Linkedin set this cookie for storing visitor's consent regarding using cookies for non-essential purposes. |
| lidc | LinkedIn sets the lidc cookie to facilitate data center selection. |
| NID | Google sets the cookie for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to unwanted mute ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads. |
| rc::a | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::b | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::c | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| rc::f | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| YSC | Youtube sets this cookie to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | The yt-remote-cast-installed cookie is used to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. |
| yt-remote-device-id | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's video preferences using embedded YouTube videos. |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | The yt-remote-fast-check-period cookie is used by YouTube to store the user's video player preferences for embedded YouTube videos. |
| yt-remote-session-app | The yt-remote-session-app cookie is used by YouTube to store user preferences and information about the interface of the embedded YouTube video player. |
| yt-remote-session-name | The yt-remote-session-name cookie is used by YouTube to store the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. |
| yt.innertube::nextId | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| yt.innertube::requests | YouTube sets this cookie to register a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. |
Cookies conclusion
The Sight Life’s website will work better with cookies, so we advise you to keep them enabled when you browse our site, in the knowledge that our cookies don’t give us – or anyone else – access to personal data that could be used to identify you. However, of course, you can use your browser settings to delete or reject any cookies. About Cookies offers resources on how to control cookies on your computer, and how to delete them if you would like to.
