Cookies on the WMSO website
Use of Cookies
What are 'cookies'?
In common with most websites, the WMSO website uses cookies to enhance a site visitor’s experience. Cookies are small files stored on your computer and they allow the WMSO website to remember you, both between visits and during a visit. WMSO uses cookies to record your preferences (for example whether you have accepted our cookie policy), to manage logged user sessions and to make navigation around the WMSO website more efficient.
Without cookies, some things on websites would not be able to work: for example, without cookies it might not be possible for an individual log in and access the restricted members’ area.
How does the WMSO website use cookies?
A visit to a page on the WMSO website may create the following types of cookie:
• Cookies that persist for the duration of the user's browsing session
o to ensure consecutive website requests from a particular user are processed by the same web server
o to remember the capabilities of the user's web browser so that the website can adapt to give the user the best browsing experience
o to remember the user's short-term preferences when interacting with the site, for example to record if the user hides a menu or starts to fill out a multi-page form
• Cookies that persist for a fixed short time (e.g. for a few days): to record that a user is currently logged into the website
• Cookies that persist for a longer fixed time (e.g. for a few months): to record the user's preferences, for example that they have accepted the cookie policy.
Analytics cookies
The WMSO website uses Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use the site.
Google Analytics is used to collect anonymous information about how visitors use the website so that we can improve the site and better understand our visitors' needs. Cookies are used by Google Analytics to track individual users of the site and to distinguish between different browsing sessions.
Google Analytics may set some or all of the following cookies:
| Cookie Name | Default Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __utma | 2 years from set/update | Used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utma cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| __utmt | 10 minutes | Used to throttle request rate. |
| __utmb | 30 mins from set/update | Used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and no existing __utmb cookies exists. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
| __utmc | End of browser session | Used in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine whether the user was in a new session/visit. |
| __utmz | 6 months from set/update | Stores the traffic source or campaign that explains how the user reached your site. The cookie is created when the javascript library executes and is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics. |
If you choose to click on our Easy Fundraising page then the Easy Fundraising cookie policy will apply, which you can read here htps://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/terms/cookies
How do I turn cookies off?
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the 'Help' option in your browser for more details.
• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari
You may opt out of providing your data to Google Analytics by installing a browser plugin provided by Google here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Please note: switching off cookies may prevent some aspects of our website from working fully.
Useful links
You can find out more about cookies and their use on the internet from www.allaboutcookies.org or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
and also read the Information Commissioner's Office explanation of the e-Privacy directive and how it relates to cookies: https://ico.org.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electronic_communications/the_guide/cookies
External links
This site may contain links to other sites at which your personal information is collected, on our concert pages for example. When following a link to another site, the collection and use of your personal information is controlled by the privacy policy of that site. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy policies of external websites and your use of external websites is at your own risk.
If you do not agree with our use of cookies, you should refrain from using our website.