Cookies

London City Mission Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer by the websites you visit.

Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to your needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better user experience, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can find out more about how we use your data by reading our Privacy Notice.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies, however declining them may sometimes prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

We do not store personal information in cookies. We do however use Google Analytics, who do set cookies to track repeat visits to our own website.

We have listed the cookies we use on this website below:

Name: _ga
Provider: Google Analytics
Provider URL: .analytics.google.com
Purpose:
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website.
Expires: 2 yrs
Cookie Category:
Analytics Privacy Policy:
https: policies.google.com/

Name: _ga, _gid
Provider: Google Analytics
URL: .analytics.google.com
Purpose: Set by Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website.
Expires: 2yrs
Cookie Category: Analytics
Privacy Policy: https:policies.google.com/

Name: _hjFirstSeen, _hjIncludedInSessionSample, _hjSession_[SiteID], _hjSessionUser_[SiteID]
Provider: Google Analytics
URL: .analytics.google.com
Purpose: Set by Hotjar to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. More information: help.hotjar.com
Expires: 1hr
Cookie Category: Analytics
Privacy Policy:
https: policies.google.com/

Name: _gcl_au
Provider: Hotjar
URL: .lcm.org.uk
Purpose: Set by Google Tag Manager to store and track conversions when an ad is clicked.
Expires: 3 months
Cookie Category: Analytics
Privacy Policy: https:policies.google.com/

Name: gtm_isp_lookup
Provider: Google Analytics
URL: .analytics.google.com
Purpose: Set by Google Tag Manager to help filter out spam bots by ISP.
Expires:
Cookie Category: Analytics
Privacy Policy:
https: policies.google.com/

Name: _ _utmx
Provider: Google Analytics
URL: .analytics.google.com
Purpose: Used to determine a user's inclusion in a content experiment
Expires: 2 yrs
Cookie Category: Analytics
Privacy Policy: https:policies.google.com/

Name: _ _utmxx
Provider: .analytics.google.com
URL: .analytics.google.com
Purpose: Used to determine the expiry of a user's inclusion in a content experiment
Expires: 2 yrs
Cookie Category: Analytics
Privacy Policy:
https:policies.google.com/

Name: _fbp
Provider: Facebook
URL: .lcm.org.uk
Purpose: Used by Facebook to deliver advertising. The cookie contains an encrypted Facebook user ID and browser ID. It will receive information from this website to better target and optimise advertising.
Expires:
Cookie Category: Ad
Privacy Policy:
https: www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Name: sessionid
Provider: Facebook
URL: facbook.com
Purpose: Used to identify visitors between requests when interacting with stateful website functionality such as the donation form. Expires: session
Cookie Category: Essential/Security
Privacy Policy: https: www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Name: csrftoken
Provider: LCM
URL: lcm.org.uk
Purpose: Used to protect against Cross Site Request Forgery on certain forms.
Expires: session
Cookie Category: Essential/Security
Privacy Policy: www.lcm.org.uk/privacy/

Name: donate_error, er
Provider: LCM
URL: lcm.org.uk
Purpose: Used to store and display certain error messages during the donation process.
Expires:
session Cookie Category: Essential/Security
Privacy Policy: https: www.lcm.org.uk/privacy/

Name: YSC
Provider: LCM
URL: youtube.com
Purpose: Ensures that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites
Expires: session
Cookie Category: Essential/Security
Privacy Policy: https: policies.google.com/privacy

Name: IDE
Provider: youtube
URL: .doubleclick.net
Purpose: Used for Campaign Manager, Display & Video 360, Google Ad Manager, Google Analytics, Search Ads 360
Expires: session
Cookie Category: Ad
Privacy Policy: https:policies.google.com/privacy

Name: __cf_bm
Provider: fonts.net
URL: fonts.net
Purpose: Used to identify and mitigate automated traffic to protect site from bad bots
Expires: session
Cookie Category: Essential/Security
Privacy Policy:
https: www.fonts.com/info/legal/privacy

Name: cookie_agree
Provider: LCM
URL: Lcm.org.uk
Purpose: Records visitor has agreed to cookies
Expires: 2 yrs
Cookie Category: Essential/Security
Privacy Policy: https: www.lcm.org.uk/privacy/

This policy was last updated in March 2024.