Cookies

To make our website, poolemuseum.org.uk easier to use, we place small files on your device (for example your iPad or laptop) called cookies. Most big websites do this too.

 

Cookies improve things by:

 

• remembering the things you’ve chosen while on our website, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page
• measuring how you use the website so we can make sure it meets your needs

 

By using our website or online forms portal, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

 

We don’t use cookies on this website that collect information about what other websites you visit (often referred to as privacy intrusive cookies).

 

Our cookies aren’t used to identify you personally. They’re just here to make the site work better for you. You can manage and/or delete these files as you wish.

 

Find out more about how to manage cookies.

 

We use the following cookies on our website poolemuseum.org.uk:

• Google Analytics
• Google Tag Manager
• YouTube videos
• Cookie Control

 

Information about the cookies we use

 

Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager

 

The names of the cookies we use for Google are:

 

• _ga
• _gid
• _gat

 

We use these to:

 

• collect information about how visitors use our site
• compile reports and to help us improve our site

 

This data is collected in an anonymous form and includes:

 

• the number of visitors to the site
• where the users have come from
• the pages our users visited

 

You can find an overview of Google’s data privacy and security pages and use their opt-out tool.

 

YouTube videos

 

The names of the cookies we use for YouTube videos are:

 

• VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
• YSC

 

YouTube uses these cookies to:

 

• measure your bandwidth to determine which interface it uses (expires after 8 months)
• remembers a user’s input and associate’s a user’s actions (expires when the browser is closed)

 

You can view more information about YouTube’s privacy policy in Google’s privacy policy.

 

Cookie Control

 

The name of the cookie that Cookie Control uses is

 

• CookieControl

 

This is used to remember your cookie preferences on our websites. It expires after 90 days.

 

Payments Portal

Our payment portals may also use cookies for secure payment processing. We have not restricted these cookies.