How we use cookies

This cookie policy refers to speak.org.uk and applies solely to this website. The policy sets out why and how we collect, store and use the information gathered on this website.

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

Our cookies help us:

  • Make our website work as you'd expect
  • Save you having to login every time you visit the site
  • Remember your settings during and between visits
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to campaign more effectively as a network).

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • 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 fine with 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.

Cookies set by our own website

We use cookies to make our site work, including:

  • Determining if you are logged in or not
  • Remembering your search settings
  • Allowing you to add comments to our site.

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

Cookies from third parties

Our site, like most websites, include functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties. Our site includes the following:

Google Analytics cookies

These are used for obtaining visitor information in order to improve the website.

ShareThis cookies

These allow users to share information using the ShareThis social media links and are set by the host sharethis.com.

Twitter cookies

These allow visitors to share content on Twitter and are set by twitter.com.

Google+ cookies

These allow visitors to share content on Google+ and are set by talkgadget.google.com

Facebook cookies

These allow visitors to share content on Facebook and are set by facebook.com

Controlling and deleting cookies on your computer

All browsers allow you to manage which cookies you accept, reject and delete via controls found under the ‘Preferences' or ‘Tools' menu. Further information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.aboutcookies.org.

Please note however that if you disable our cookies you may not be able to access certain services or facilities on our websites and your use of our sites may be restricted.