Cookie policy

This website, like many others uses cookies. Cookies are small files that get stored on your device when you visit a website that uses them.

They can be used for a number of different purposes, from preventing malicious attacks on websites to storing your personal viewing preferences. Outlined below are the cookies that we use on this site and what they are for.


Functional and Required Cookies

Squarespace, our hosting company, uses some necessary cookies because they allow visitors to navigate and use key features on this site. For example, Functional and Required Cookies help these features work:

Cookie Name: Crumb

Duration: Session

Purpose: Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF). CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browser into taking unwanted action in an application when someone’s logged in.

Cookie Name: Locked

Duration: Session

Purpose: Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.

 

Cookie Name: squarespace-announcement-bar

Duration: Persistent

Purpose: Prevents the Announcement Bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

Cookie Name: RecentRedirect

Duration: 30 minutes

Purpose: Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.

Cookie Name: squarespace-popup-overlay

Duration: Persistent

Purpose: Prevents the Promotional Pop-Up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it


Cookie Name:
Test

Duration: Session

Purpose: Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.

 

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We use Analytics and Performance cookies to collect information about how visitors interact with this site. This information is then stored and interpreted to give us various insights to the use of this site, such as traffic sources, unique visitors, and page views.

Cookie Name: _ga

Duration: 2 years

Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Cookie Name: _gat_gtag_UA

Duration: 1 minute

Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Cookie Name: _hjIncludeInSample

Duration: Session

Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Cookie Name: ss_cid

Duration: 2 years

Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Cookie Name: ss_cvisit

Duration: 30 minutes

Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Cookie Name: ss_cpvisit

Duration: 2 years

Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Cookie Name: _gid

Duration: 2 years

Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Cookie Name: _hjid

Duration: 1 year

Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Cookie Name: ss_cvr

Duration: 2 years

Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Cookie Name: ss_cvt

Duration: 30 minutes

Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Cookie Name: ss_cookieAllowed

Duration: 30 days

Purpose: Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies

Cookie Name: ss_cvr

Duration: 2 years

Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

 

Checking your cookies

For the most common browsers, you can:

  • See which cookies are active in your browser’s settings.

  • Clear cookies from your browser or device, either globally or from a specific website.

For help locating cookies on your device, visit your browser's documentation: 

Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how visitors use this site. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are small text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The anonymised information generated by Google Analytics cookies about your use of this website is transmitted directly to Google. This information is processed to compile statistical reports on website activity for this website only. The Diocese of Newcastle use these reports to evaluate aggregate visitor usage so that we can optimise the content, and its marketing, to better meet your needs. For further details, please see Google Analytics privacy policy by clicking here. To find out how Google Analytics anonymises IP addresses, click here.


You can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites by visiting this opt-out link.

Hotjar

We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimise this service and experience. Hotjar is a service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behaviour and their devices (in particular device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymised form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonym-ised user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.

You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.