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Cookie Policy

About this cookie policy

This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences.

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website

Your consent applies to the following domains: lifeorknife.west-midlands.police.uk

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What are cookies ?

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

How do we use 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.

What types of cookies do we use ?

Necessary: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information.

CookieDescriptionExpires
cookie_notice_acceptedThis let us know if you have accepted to allow us to use cookies on your device6 months

Analytical: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyse how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.

CookieDescriptionExpires
_gaThis helps us see how many people visit our site by tracking if you’ve visited before and which pages you have looked at.2 years
_gatThis measures the amount of data sent around people’s demographic data to Google, so that Google’s servers can still work.10 minutes
_gid
This helps us see how many people visit our site by tracking if you’ve visited our site before.24 hours
_fbpThis helps us to see if visitors to the site come from Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and helps us understand how our social media campaigns are performing.3 months

Embedded content from other websites

Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How can I control the cookie preferences?

Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on Manage your consent. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.

This website (and associated sites) uses small files called cookies to help customise your experience and evaluate how you use our website.

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of information (in the form of a text file) which is sent from a website server and stored on a user’s computer. Cookies are designed to hold a modest amount of data specific to a particular client and website, and can be accessed either by the web server or the client’s computer. Read a fuller explanation of cookies here (opens new browser window).

The #LifeOrKnife website uses unobtrusive cookies to store information on your computer. All cookies on this site are not essential however, and the site will work as expected without them. Please see below for a list of all cookies used within the website.

We also use some non-essential third party cookies to anonymously track visitors. NOTE: disabling certain cookies may disable some of the features of this website.

What cookies does our website use?

The #LifeOrKnife website uses various non-intrusive cookies. Note that if you don’t use all the features of the website, then you won’t be subject to these cookies.

The only cookie set without implicit permission is the Google Analytics tracking cookie, which anonymously tracks your visit throughout the website. Usage of the website implies you are happy for us to set this non-essential third party cookie.