Vegetarian Society cookie policy

Like many websites, www.vegsoc.org uses “cookies”.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work as well as to provide information to the owners of the site about how users use the site and to support advertising activities. 

The table below explains the cookies we use:

Strictly necessary cookies

Our cookie banner sets the _vegsoc_accept_cookies so we can record whether you have accepted cookies or not. 

To process payments securely, the Stripe payment system sets cookies including: _stripe_mid & _atripe_sid

To keep track of your selected items as you move through the purchasing process. the Woocommerce system sets cookies including: woocommerce_cart_hask, woocommerce_items_in_cart & woocommerce_session_*  (* means the cookie can have various different values after  session_ ).

Optional cookies

If you accept cookies the following systems that use cookies will run: 

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a website tracking tool. We use this to understand how people find the site and what they do when they are on it. It helps us ensure we get value for money from our paid advertising and understand where people may be having difficulties navigating or interacting with the website. Cookie set by Google Analytics include: _ga   & _ga_*.

Hotjar

Hotjar is a system that tracks behaviour on a website, it does this in a mainly visual way, providing heatmaps & screen recordings that help us understand where people are having difficulty using  the site. We may also use Hotjar to proceed user surveys, any information you enter into a Hotjar survey form will be stored by Hotjar.

Google Ads

Google Ads is an advertising platform run by Google. It uses cookies to track users who visit the site and to measure the success of its advertising and to better target adverts. Cookie set by Google Ads include: gcl_au & IDE

Facebook 

Facebook is a social media site that we advertise on. It uses cookies to track users who visit the site and to measure the success of its advertising and to better target adverts. Facebook sets the _fbp cookie.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Is a social media site that we advertise on. It uses cookies to track users who visit the site and to measure the success of its advertising and to better target adverts.Cookies set  by LinkedIn include: cookie,li_gc and lidc.

Woocommerce analytics

Woocommerce is a very widely used system for adding ecommerce functionality to websites. Woocommerce analytics tracks how visitors reach the website in order to provide attribution information  which tells us which sources of traffic place most orders.

Mailchimp

Mailchimp is an email management system that we use for providing newsletter and transactional emails. Mailchimp & Woocommerce share data to help us target relevant emails to visitors and customers. Mailchimp sets the mailchimp_landing_site cookie.

Google ReCaptcha
We use Google reCaptcha to protect against spam. It does not set cookies to do this, but if you are logged into Google or using a Chrome browser, Google may set cookies for security purposes, to remember your preferences, and for advertising & analytics purposes.  For more information, see the Google Privacy Policy.

Please note if you disable all cookies then you may not be able to use this website.

As a charity with limited resources, we seek to spend our supporters’ money in the most efficient ways possible. Cookies mean we can more easily reach people with an interest in our work, allowing us to be more targeted, and more efficient with our supporters’ money.

We may introduce further types of cookie from time to time to improve your experience of the website. For example, we may use other targeting cookies to record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.  We may also share this information with relevant third parties for this purpose.

Other types of cookies

If you’re more interested in the edible kind of cookies, may we suggest you try a Vegetarian Society Cookery School baking course! When we open our new school in 2024 there will be loads to choose from – visit www.vegsoccookeryschool.org for more information. Happy baking!