Cookies

Information about our use of Cookies

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer (if you consent to us using cookies). Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.

Our cookies help us to:

  • Make our website work smoothly as you would expect
  • Save you having to log in every time you visit the site
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Offer you content
  • Improve the speed and security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages easily across social media networks
  • Continuously improve our website
  • Make our marketing more efficient

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

Granting us permission to use Cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are consenting to this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

Website Function Cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

  • Determining if you are logged in or not
  • Allowing you to view and add information to the site
  • Tailoring content to your needs

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so-called "analytics" programs also tell us how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

 

Domain Name Purpose
londonmark.masonic.events cookieconsent_status Used to store the user’s cookie acceptance for this website.
.masonic.events _ga
_gid
_gat
Part of Google Analytics and allow us to measure information about how visitors use our site. This includes identifying each unique user to our site and details of each page visited.
.wonderful.org __cfduid Set by CloudFlare service to identify trusted web traffic. It does not correspond to any user id in the web application, nor does the cookie store any personally identifiable information.
.youtube.com VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE YouTube measures your bandwidth to determine whether you get the new player interface or the old.
.youtube.com YSC Set by the YouTube video service on pages with embedded YouTube video
.youtube.com PREF Stores your preferences and other information.
.youtube.com GPS Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographic GPS location.
.doubleclick.net test_cookie  Tests for cookie setting permissions for Google Analytics
.doubleclick.net IDE Set by DoubleClick and used for serving targeted advertisements that are relevant to you across the web.

 

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after 3 years.

By using our website, you consent to our use of cookies as described above

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