Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

Why we use cookies?

Our website – linkage.org.uk – uses cookies to distinguish you from other users visiting our websites. This helps us to provide you with a better experience when you browse the website and helps us to improve our site.

Types of website cookies

Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our websites. They save information that is required for our website to function properly.

Analytical or performance cookies

These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors, and to see how visitors move around our websites when they are using it.
This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies

These allow us to provide features which can improve your experience on the websites. They include, for example, cookies that enable the browser to store information about your visit making it easier when visiting the website again.

What cookies do we use?

Find out more about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them.

Google Analytics

This is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate use of those services and compile a report for us.
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website.
These cookies do not store any user information;

• [_ga] is used to distinguish individual users and has an expiration of 2 years.
• [_gid] is used to distinguish users and stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously and has an expiration of 24-hours

For more information read Google’s overview of cookie usage ➜