COOKIES STATEMENT

1. WHO WE ARE AND ABOUT THIS COOKIES STATEMENT

We ask that you read this Cookies Statement carefully as it contains important information on who we are and our use of cookies and other similar technologies on this website. This Statement should be read together with our website Privacy Notice which sets out how and why we collect, store and use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authority is including me as your if you have a concern.

Imran Khan Cancer Appeal (“IKCA”) is the working name for Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust registered in the UK as a charity number 1000580 (referred to in this notice as “we”, “us” and “our”). Our objective is to raise funds for charitable objectives. We are the operator of this website.

2. OUR WEBSITE

This Cookies Statement only relates to your use of this website: https://www.ikca.org.uk/. We may link to other websites owned and operated by certain well known and trusted third parties. Please note that other third-party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate cookies policies. For privacy information relating to these third-party websites, please consult their cookies policies as appropriate.

3. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

A cookie is a small text file which includes data, sometimes this includes a unique identifier that is sent to and stored on your device (eg computer, smartphone or another electronic device, such as a tablet) when you use our website. We use cookies and other tracking technologies, eg web beacons, action tags, single pixel gifs on our website. These help us recognise you on your device and store information about your preferences or past actions and website activities.

For example, we may monitor how many times your device visits the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data on originating domain name or user name of the internet service provider or “ISP” address. This helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means we will not be able to identify you individually.

You may be able to set your internet browser not to accept cookies and the websites below tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, some of our websites features may not function as a result on your change in preferences. A browser is an application that allows you to surf the internet. The most common browsers are Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. Most browsers are secure and offer quick and easy ways to delete information like cookies. Please see the section below Change your Browser Settings.

You can find out more on. https://www.allaboutcookies.org/

3. OUR USE OF COOKIES

As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

We use cookies on this website to:

recognise you and your device whenever you visit this website;
obtain information about your preferences and use of our website;
carry out research and statistical analysis to help provide and improve our content and services and help us better understand our users’ requirements;
target our marketing and advertising campaigns more effectively by providing internet-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests;
make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.

4. TYPES OF COOKIES

First Party Cookies: these are set by the website you are visiting and they can only be read by that website.
Third Party Cookies: are set by other organisations that we use for different services. For example, IKCA uses external analytics services and these suppliers may set cookies on IKCA’s behalf in order to report what’s popular and what’s not.
Session cookies: these allow our website to link your actions during a particular browsing session. These cookies expire each time you close your browser and do not remain on your device afterwards.
Persistent cookies: these are stored on your device in between browser sessions. They allow your preferences or actions across our website to be remembered. These remain on your device until they expire, or you delete them from your cache.
Strictly necessary cookies: these cookies are essential for you to be able to navigate our website and use its features. Without these cookies, the services you may request cannot be provided.
Performance on analytical cookies: these allow us to assess website visitor behaviour, for example, recognise and count the number of visitors and see how many visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use cookies to compile website visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our site, what type of technology they are using (eg a Mac or Windows, which to identify when our website isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the website or what page is viewed. This helps us to continuously improve our website.
Functionality cookies: these cookies allow website to remember the choices you make (such as your language, last action search preferences) and provide enhanced more personal features. The information collected by the cookies technology are anonymous.
Targeting cookies: also known as advertising cookies, these cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement on a website and help ensure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. This technology can remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Any advertisements on our website from time to time may be served by a third-party ad serving provider such, Google Analytics. The cookies accompanying these adverts allow them and their advertisers to monitor the effectiveness of the ads (e.g. by using statistical analysis cookies).
Flash cookies: many websites use Adobe Flash Player to deliver video and game content to their users. Adobe utilise their own cookies, which are not manageable through your browser settings but are used by the Flash Player for similar purposes, such as storing preferences or tracking users.
A web beacon or tracking pixel: takes the form of a small, transparent image, which is embedded in a web page or an email. They are used in conjunction with cookies and send information such as your IP address, when you viewed the page or email, from what device and your (broad) location.

We may also link with well know social media platforms to collect information about how users interact with our website this includes Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter. These platforms and tools use cookies to collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, from where the visitors have come to the website and the pages they visited. We use information generated by these tools to prepare reports and to improve the experience. Where we also connect with social media sites, via “like”, “share” and similar buttons, this connectivity allows the social media partners to set cookies to your device if you are a member of the platform or otherwise.

The table below provides more information about the cookies we use:

Manage cookie preferences

Cookie Settings

You can change your cookie preferences any time by clicking the above button. This will let you revisit the cookie consent banner and change your preferences or withdraw your consent right away.

In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.

Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts

Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/

If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.

This Cookie is placed by Facebook. It enables IKCA to measure, optimise and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. In particular it enables IKCA to see how our users move between devices when accessing the IKCA web site and Facebook, to ensure that IKCA’s Facebook advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the IKCA web site.

To opt-out please see https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences

This Cookie is placed by LinkedIn. It enables IKCA to measure, optimise and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on LinkedIn. In particular it enables IKCA to see how our users move between devices when accessing the IKCA web site and LinkedIn, to ensure that IKCA’s LinkedIn advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the IKCA web site.

To opt-out please see https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out

5. CONSENT TO USE COOKIES

We ask you for permission and consent to place cookies or similar technologies on your device except where these are essential for us to provide you with a service you have requested. There is a consent mechanism on our home page which requests your permission to place cookies on your device and you can use to indicate your consent.

6. HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any queries about this Cookies Statement or our practices please contact the Data Protection Coordinator at:

Address: Legal Department, PO Box 786, 66 Little Horton Lane, Bradford, BD5 0YE. United Kingdom
Email: [email protected]
Call: 01274 424 444

7. CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT

This policy was published on 15 November 2020. We may change this policy from time to time and we will inform you by an appropriate method.