The Take Part platform and Application Website use cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience possible. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. Your web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome or Firefox) then sends these cookies back to the website or app each time you visit so that the website or app can remember personalised details or your user preferences. That way they help make your experience of the Take Part platform and Application Website better.
Our cookies help us to:
Cookies come in two forms: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies only last for the time you are browsing the website or application and then they vanish when you close your browser. Persistent cookies stay on your computer or mobile device after you close the browser and are activated each time you visit the website or app you got the cookie from.
We and other third parties use the following types of cookies when you browse the Take Part platform and Application Website:
We do not use cookies to:
You can manage cookies for each of the main browsers by clicking on the relevant link below:
We use Google Analytics and you can use Google's Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on if you want to prevent Google Analytics from using your data. You will still be able to login and complete your application.
We use cookies and similar technology from Facebook so that site visitors are matched to their respective Facebook accounts and identified by the Facebook cookies on their devices and we can assess the performance of our Facebook ads and make better data-driven decisions.
This will only be active if you opt-in to the Performance and Analytics cookies section within the ‘Manage Settings’ preference centre. You can learn more about Facebook cookies and how they use them in their Cookies Policy.
You can also find out more about cookies at About Cookies or at the Information Commissioner's Office.
Below is a full list of the cookies we use:
Name | Domain | Purpose | Expiry | Category |
LOVECASTING | .take-part.co.uk | Set by the Take Part system to allow us to safely save your application progress | Session | Strictly necessary |
AWSALBCORS | .take-part.co.uk | This cookie is used by the hosting platform (Amazon Web Services) to improve stability, by making sure it doesn’t become overloaded | 7 days | Strictly necessary |
AWSALB | .take-part.co.uk | This cookie is used by the hosting platform (Amazon Web Services) to improve stability, by making sure it doesn’t become overloaded | 7 days | Strictly necessary |
Facebook Pixel | .take-part.co.uk | This cookie matches visitors to their corresponding Facebook accounts using Facebook cookies persisting on their devices. This cookie tracks domains/URLs visited, as well as site actions, and organises this data using the Facebook ad manager to allow us to assess our ad performance. | 180 days | Performance/Analytics Cookie |
_ga | .take-part.co.uk | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics.This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. | 730 days | Performance/Analytics Cookie |
_gat | .take-part.co.uk | This cookie does not store any user information, it's just used to limit the number of requests that have to be made to google analytics | 1 min | Performance/Analytics Cookie |
_gid | .take-part.co.uk | This cookie counts and track page views | 1 day | Performance/Analytics Cookie |
Last updated November 2021
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