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Giving you an overall better online experience

– Allowing you to set personal preferences

– Protect your security

– Measure and improve our service each time you visit our website


What is a cookie?

A cookie is a piece of information, like a tag comprised of numbers and letters; it typically contains:
1) the name of the server the cookie was sent from;
2) the lifetime of the cookie and;
3) a unique identifier. It’s stored on your device (computer / tablet / phone) when you visit a website. It provides us with information relating to your website usage. Cookies are safe, secure and commonly used by websites.

Types of cookies

There are two main types of cookies that based upon their life span. These are:
1. Session or temporary cookies, which last until you close your browser or when the session times out. These are not stored on your hard drive and are primarily used so your experience is customised for that particular visit.
2. Permanent or persistent cookies, which last longer than session cookies. These are stored on your hard drive (thereby survive across many sessions) and are used so your experience is customised each time you visit the site.

How does goDonate use cookies?

We use first party cookies (cookies that we have set internally, that can only be read by our website) to personalise your online experience. We also use third party cookies (essentially external cookies that are set by an organisation other than us) for the purposes of website measurement and targeted advertising. If you continue to use this site or close the sticky footer banner, you consent to our use of cookies.

How can I manage my cookie preferences with goDonate?

You can take disable cookies through your browser settings on your device. Removal of cookies may hinder your positive customer experience whilst using our website.

What happens if I disable my cookies with goDonate?

We recommend you keep cookies enabled with goDonate so that all aspects of the site work as expected with no hindrances.

What happens if I delete my cookies?

If you delete all your cookies you will have to update your preferences with us again and some aspects of our site may not work.

What happens if I change computers or mobile?

If you use a different device, computer profile or browser you will have to tell us your preferences again.

List of cookies:

__youtube.com CONSENT Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.

_ga This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.

_ga _# This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.

_gid This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visted in an anonymous form.

IDE Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user’s actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser’s ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

YSC Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

yt.innertube::nextId Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

yt.innertube::requests Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

yt-remote-cast-available Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-cast-installed Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-connected-devices Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-device-id Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-fast-check-period Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-session-app Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-session-name Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

G-227TQGVQTG This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites.

If you’d like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit aboutcookies.org. We can’t be responsible for the content of external websites.