Cookie policy

This cookie notice applies to the Website, any website or branded pages on third party platforms (e.g.YouTube and Facebook) and applications accessed or used through such websites or platforms which are operated by or on behalf of Step Forward Luton (“Step Forward Luton Site”).

By using Step Forward Luton Sites, you are consenting to our use of cookies and other tracking technology in accordance with this notice and configured by your level of consent selection made below. If you do not agree to our use of cookies and other tracking technology in this way, you should set your browser settings accordingly or not use the Step Forward Luton Site. If you disable cookies that we use, this may impact your user experience while on the Site.

Let’s talk about cookies

What are cookies ?

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

How do we use cookies ?

As most of the online services, our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The 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 websites are used 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.

How can I control the cookie preferences ?

Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can visit this cookie policy page enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.

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. To find out more out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.orgwww.allaboutcookies.org.

Control your consent

Your consent applies to the following domains: https://stepforwardluton.co.uk/
You can amend your chosen consent status to the services provided using the check-boxes below:

Types of cookies in use

Analytics

Cookies and other technologies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how you interact with a particular service. These insights allow services to both improve content and build better features that enhance your experience.

Some cookies and other technologies help sites and apps understand how their visitors engage with their services. For example, Google Analytics uses a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. ‘_ga’, the main cookie used by Google Analytics, enables a service to distinguish one visitor from another and lasts for 2 years. Any site that implements Google Analytics, including Google services, uses the ‘_ga’ cookie. Each ‘_ga’ cookie is unique to the specific property, so it cannot be used to track a given user or browser across unrelated websites.

Google services also use ‘NID’ and ‘ENID’ cookies on Google Search, and ‘VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE’ and ‘YEC’ cookies on YouTube, for analytics.

YouTube cookies

PREF * Expires after eight months
VSC * expires at the end of your session
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE *expires after eight months
remote_sid * expires at the end of your session

We may embed videos from YouTube. This may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player.

Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.

Comments

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Logging in

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Editing articles and pages

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.