Cookies
The website kind. Not the chocolate-chip kind.
Small files. Boring name. Occasionally useful.
Tiny bits of information stored by your browser.
Cookies are small text files that websites can place on your device.
They can help websites remember things, keep services working properly or understand how a website is being used.
Some cookies disappear when you close your browser. Others may remain for longer.
We only need them where they serve a purpose.
The Veterans Backbone website may use cookies or similar technologies for things such as:
- Keeping parts of the website working properly
- Remembering basic preferences
- Supporting login or authentication features
- Helping forms or other services function
- Protecting the website from misuse or security threats
- Understanding how visitors use the website
We do not want the website stuffed with unnecessary tracking.
Some things simply need to work.
Certain cookies may be necessary for website features to operate properly.
These can include things connected with security, forms, account sessions or authentication.
Where a cookie is genuinely essential, the website may need to use it without asking for optional consent first.
Optional means optional.
If Veterans Backbone introduces analytics, advertising, marketing or other non-essential tracking, those technologies should be treated differently from essential cookies.
Where consent is legally required, visitors should be given a meaningful choice before those cookies are used.
No sneaky yes-by-default nonsense.
Sometimes another service is doing the technical bit.
Parts of the Veterans Backbone website may rely on third-party platforms or services.
These might include services used for:
- Website hosting
- Forms
- Member login or authentication
- Donations
- Embedded content
- Analytics, if introduced
Those services may set their own cookies or process technical information when you use the relevant feature.
Logging in may require cookies.
If Veterans Backbone uses a member login system, cookies or similar storage may be needed to keep somebody signed in and maintain a secure session.
These are normally connected with the functioning and security of the member area rather than advertising or marketing.
Your browser has controls too.
Most browsers allow you to view, remove or block cookies through their settings.
Blocking all cookies may affect parts of some websites, particularly features that rely on sessions, authentication or saved preferences.
If Veterans Backbone introduces a cookie consent tool, visitors will also be able to use that tool to manage relevant non-essential choices.
Keep it simple until there is a reason not to.
Veterans Backbone aims to minimise unnecessary cookies and tracking.
As the website develops, this page should be updated whenever new services are added that introduce additional cookies or tracking technologies.
That includes reviewing any services used for member accounts, forms, donations, embedded media or analytics.
The two overlap.
Where cookie information can identify somebody, or is connected with other personal information, data protection rules may also apply.
Ask us.
If you want to know more about how the Veterans Backbone website uses cookies or other website technologies, contact us.
The other important bits.
Safeguarding & Standards
How we protect people and maintain safe standards.
Read Safeguarding →Privacy & Data
How we collect, use and protect personal information.
Read Privacy & Data →Accessibility
How we aim to make the site usable by as many people as possible.
Read Accessibility →Complaints & Concerns
How to tell us when something has gone wrong.
Read Complaints →