Cookies and how they benefit you

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you'd expect
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.


Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Remembering your preferences such as colours, text size and layout

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

We use:

Used For Cookie Name Expiration Time Description
Google Analytics __utma 2 years from set/update Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
Google Analytics __utmb 30 minutes from set/update Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
Google Analytics __utmc End of browser session Not used in ga.js. Set for interoperability with urchin.js. Historically, this cookie operated in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit.
Google Analytics __utmz 6 months from set/update Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
Google Analytics _ga 2 years Used to distinguish users.
Google Analytics _gat 10 minutes Used to throttle request rate.
Cookie Compliance ComplianceCookie 14 days Used to record implied consent of the use of cookies on this website.
Identify Session ASP.NET_SessionId End of browser session ASP.NET issues a cookie called ASP.NET_SessionId. This cookie contains the user's session ID and the cookie will expire at the end of the session (when you close your browser). This cookie does not store personal data about you.
Identify Session .ASPXAUTH End of browser session The ASPXAUTH cookie is used when accessing Microsites that require username and password authentication. This cookie determines that a user is logged in. When the user logs out of the app, this cookie is removed from the browser.

Third party cookies

You may notice some cookies that are not related to the disabledchildren.org.uk website whilst visting disabledchildren.org.uk. Some of our pages contain embedded content such as Youtube video, Facebook buttons or Flikr photos, and you may receive cookies delivered from these websites. disabledchildren.org.uk does not govern the publication of 3rd party cookies. To understand more about their cookies and privacy statements, please visit the relevant sites.

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies

If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer and you wish to block disabledchildren.org.uk website cookies, you can perform the following:

  • On your browser tools menu, select 'Internet Options'
  • Click on the 'Privacy' tab and then on the 'Sites' button
  • Type into the 'Address of website' field: www.disabledchildren.org.uk
  • Click on the 'Block' button
  • Click on the OK button

Other browsers:

Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our's and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites. If you carry on using our sites and do not change your browser settings we will assume you consent to us using cookies as described above.

It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.


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