Cookie policy
Our website located at https://www.halotrust.org/ uses cookies. This cookie policy explains how The HALO Trust ("we", "us" or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website. It applies to all visitors and users who access our website.
This policy should be read alongside, and in addition to, our terms of use and our privacy policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on the hard drive of a user's computer or internet-enabled device that contain information about the user.
A website can retrieve only the information that it has placed on your browser. It cannot retrieve information from other cookie files or any other information from your machine. Once the cookie is on your device, the site 'knows' that you've been there before and can then use that knowledge to tailor the experience that you have. The vast majority of websites use cookies.
What are they used for?
Cookies are used for many different functions including auto-filling forms, counting visitors, personalising content, targeting advertising, recording user preferences (eg preferred text size) and for authentication and security.
Cookies help us provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allow us to improve our site.
Your rights
You have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. When you first use our website, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies.
If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your device, please refer to instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies may include analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. We recommend that you check the relevant third party's cookie policy for information about any cookies that may be used.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit All About Cookies.
Changes
We may need to update this cookie policy in the future and so encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are using cookies. This cookie policy was last updated in June 2025.
Cookies we use and what they do
Strictly necessary
These cookies are required for our website to function. Strictly necessary cookies allow core website functionality. The website cannot be used properly without them.
Name |
Provider/domain |
Expiration |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
sp_t |
Spotify Inc. |
1 year |
Required to ensure the functionality of the integrated Spotify plugin. This does not result in any cross-site functionality. |
__cf_bm |
Cloudflare Inc. |
30 minutes |
Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
ARRAffinity |
Microsoft Corporation |
Session |
Set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session. |
__cf_bm |
Cloudflare Inc. |
30 minutes |
Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
_GRECAPTCHA |
Google LLC |
6 months |
Google reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. |
.AspNetCore.Mvc.Cookie |
www.halotrust.org |
Session |
Used to store temporary data used by ASP.NET MVC in a secure way to maintain state between different page requests. This makes the browsing session more seamless and efficient. |
li_gc |
LinkedIn Corporation |
6 months |
Used to store guest consent to the use of cookies for non-essential purposes. |
sp_landing |
Spotify Inc. |
1 day |
Required to ensure the functionality of the integrated Spotify plugin. This does not result in any cross-site functionality. |
wmc |
workable.com |
1 year 1 month |
Used to remember a user's choice about cookies on halotrust.org. Identifies whether the user has accepted the cookie consent box. |
__cf_bm |
Cloudflare Inc. |
30 minutes |
Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
ARRAffinitySameSite |
Microsoft Corporation |
Session |
When using Microsoft Azure as a hosting platform and enabling load balancing, this cookie ensures that requests from one visitor browsing session are always handled by the same server in the cluster. |
__cf_bm |
Cloudflare Inc. |
30 minutes |
Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
__cf_bm |
Cloudflare Inc. |
30 minutes |
Used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website. |
Performance
These cookies are used to see how visitors use the website (eg analytics cookies). They can't be used to directly identify a certain visitor.
Name |
Provider/domain |
Expiration |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
_gat |
Google LLC |
58 seconds |
Associated with Google Universal Analytics. According to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate – limiting the collection of data on high-traffic sites. |
_ga_PHMBF6LLNW |
halotrust.org |
1 year 1 month |
Used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
_ga |
Google LLC |
1 year 1 month |
Associated with Google Universal Analytics, which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. |
_ga_V13C7T150M |
halotrust.org |
1 year 1 month |
Used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
_gid |
Google LLC |
1 day |
Set by Google Analytics. Stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews. |
_ga_4ZXZ2611EX |
halotrust.org |
1 year 1 month |
Used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
Targeting
These cookies are used to identify visitors between different websites (eg content partners or banner networks). They may be used by companies to build a profile of visitor interests or show relevant ads on other websites.
Name |
Provider/domain |
Expiration |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
dmSessionID |
halotrust.org |
20 minutes |
Associated with services from email marketing company Dotdigital. Their software placed on a website enables the owner to track when email campaign recipients land on the target website, which enables monitoring of the effectiveness of a campaign. This cookie is a short-lived session identifier. |
lidc |
Microsoft Corporation |
1 day |
A Microsoft MSN first-party cookie that ensures the proper functioning of this website. |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
Google LLC |
6 months |
Set by YouTube to keep track of user preferences for YouTube videos embedded in sites. It can also determine whether the website visitor is using the new or old version of the YouTube interface. |
_gcl_au |
Google LLC |
3 months |
Used by Google AdSense for experimenting with advertisement efficiency across websites using their services. |
bcookie |
Microsoft Corporation |
1 year |
A Microsoft MSN first-party cookie for sharing the content of the website via social media. |
recordID |
dotdigital Inc. |
1 year |
Associated with services from UK email marketing company Dotdigital. Their software placed on a website enables the owner to track when email campaign recipients land on the target website, which enables monitoring of the effectiveness of a campaign. This cookie is a unique user identifier, enabling persistent linking of behaviour on the site to a particular user and email campaign response. |
test_cookie |
Google LLC |
15 minutes |
Set by DoubleClick (owned by Google) to determine if the website visitor's browser supports cookies. |
_fbp |
Meta Platform Inc. |
3 months |
Used by Meta to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third-party advertisers. |
YSC |
Google LLC |
Session |
Set by YouTube to track views of embedded videos. |
Functionality
These cookies are used to remember visitor information on the website (eg language or timezone).
Name |
Provider/domain |
Expiration |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
vuid |
Vimeo.com Inc. |
1 year 1 month |
Used by the Vimeo video player on websites. |
_cfuvid |
vimeo.com |
Session |
Used for tracking users across sessions to optimise user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalised services. |
Unclassified
These are cookies that do not belong to any other category or are in the process of categorisation.
Name |
Provider/domain |
Expiration |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA |
YouTube |
6 months |
|
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN |
YouTube |
6 months |
|
CookieScriptConsent |
CookieScript |
1 month |
Used by Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences. Necessary for the Cookie-Script.com cookie banner to work properly. |
.AspNetCore.Antiforgery.ppX |
www.halotrust.org |
Session |
These cookies enable us to run website surveys using Hotjar (an insights platform that helps organisations understand user behaviour on their websites).
_hjClosedSurveyInvites
This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown.
_hjDonePolls
This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in.
_hjMinimizedPolls
This cookie is set once a visitor minimises a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimises when the visitor navigates through your site.
_hjDoneTestersWidgets
This cookie is set once a visitor submits their information in the Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the same form does not re-appear if it has already been filled in.
_hjIncludedInSample
This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels.
_hjShownFeedbackMessage
This cookie is set when a visitor minimises or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimised immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show.
_hjid
This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script.
_hjRecordingLastActivity
This should be found in sessionStorage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records).
_hjTLDTest
When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname.
_hjUserAttributesHash
User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated.
_hjCachedUserAttributes
This cookie stores User Attributes which are sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample.
_hjLocalStorageTest
This cookie is used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Script can use local storage.
