Cookies policy

This cookie policy explains what cookies are and how we use them on our website.

You can change your preferences or withdraw your consent to cookies at any time using the cookie declaration on our website.

Your consent applies to the following domains: blindveterans.org.uk.

Find out more about how we process your personal data in our privacy policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are saved on your device when you visit a website. We use cookies to collect and store information about how you use blindveterans.org.uk.

Some of the cookies we use are essential for our website to function properly and remain secure. Others help us to provide you with a better, more personalised user experience and allow us to to analyse how our website is performing.

How do we use cookies?

We use first-party and third-party cookies on our website.

First-party cookies are mostly necessary for our website to function properly and they do not collect any of your personal data.

Third-party cookies mainly help us to understand how our website performs and how you interact with it. They also help us to keep our site secure, provide you with targeted advertisements and make the site quicker and easier for you to use. 

What types of cookies do we use?

We use the following types of cookies: 

Necessary

These cookies are essential for our website to function properly and remain secure. They do not store any personal information. You can only disable them by changing your cookies preferences in your browser’s settings.

Analytics

We use cookies to understand how you interact with our website. They tell us things like how you got to our site, what pages you visit and how long you spend on each page. The more we learn about how you use our site, the better we can make our site for all users. We also send hashed data ( a process of anonymising and protecting your information) to Facebook for modelling and analysis purposes. (Please note we will only send this anonymised data if you come to the site via Facebook.)

Advertisement

We use these cookies to provide you with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. They may be set by our third-party advertising partners who use cookies to build up a profile of your interests and show you customised adverts. These cookies do not directly your store personal information, but they work by identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, the advertisements you see will be less targeted to your interests.

Functional

We use these cookies to remember your preferences so that we can personalise your experience of using our site. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some of these services may not function properly.

You can find the full list of the cookies that we use on the Blind Veterans UK website below. 

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Our cookies

Necessary cookies

Cookie name Provider Expiry Purpose

bv-url-params

Blind Veterans

Session

Saves donation-related query parameters.

bv-cookie-policy

Blind Veterans

One year

Saves users' cookie preferences.

_GRECAPTCHA

Recaptcha

NEEDED

reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis.

yt.innertube::nextId

YouTube No Cookie

Persistent

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

yt.innertube::requests

YouTube No Cookie

Persistent

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY

YouTube No Cookie

Persistent

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-cast-available

YouTube No Cookie

Session

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-cast-installed

YouTube No Cookie

Session

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-connected-devices

YouTube No Cookie

Persistent

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-device-id

YouTube No Cookie

Persistent

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-fast-check-period

YouTube No Cookie

Session

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-session-app

YouTube No Cookie

Persistent

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-remote-session-name

YouTube No Cookie

Persistent

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

yt-player-bandwidth

YouTube No Cookie

Persistent

Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.

CONSENT

Google

Two years

Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is  necessary for GDPR compliance of the website.

__Secure-3PSIDCC

Google

One year

Unknown

__Secure-1PAPISID

Google

Two years

Unknown

SSID

Google

Two years

Unknown

HSID

Google

Two years

Unknown

__Secure-3PSID

Google

 

Two years

Unknown

__Secure-1PSID

Google

 

Two years

Unknown

SID

Google

 

Two years

Unknown

SIDCC

Google

One year

Unknown

__Secure-3PAPISID

Google

 

Two years

Unknown

__Secure-1PSIDCC

Google

One year

Unknown

SAPISID

Google

 

Two years

Unknown

APISID

Google

 

Two years

Unknown

1P_JAR

Google

One month

Unknown

NID

Google

Six months

Unknown

AEC

Google

Six months

Unknown

DV

Google

One hour

Unknown

OGPC

Google

Two weeks

Unknown

S

Google

Session

Unknown

__cf_bm

Vimeo

One hour

Unknown

OptanonConsent

Vimeo

One year

Unknown

_ga

Vimeo

Two years

Unknown

OptanonAlertBoxClosed

Vimeo

One year

Unknown

vuid

Vimeo

One year

Unknown

 

Analytics cookies

Cookie name Provider Expiry Purpose

_ga

Google Analytics

Two years

Used to distinguish users.

_gid

Google Analytics

24 hours

Used to distinguish users.

_gat

Google Analytics

One minute

Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property- id>.

AMP_TOKEN

Google Analytics

30 seconds to One year

Contains a token that can be used to retrieve a Client ID from AMP Client ID service. Other possible values indicate opt-out, inflight request or an error retrieving a Client ID from AMP Client ID service.

_gac_<property-id>

Google Analytics

90 days

Contains campaign-related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt out.

Functional cookies

Cookie name Provider Expiry Purpose

form-{formId}

Blind Veterans

Persistent

Saves entered information on specific forms.

bv-high-contrast

Blind Veterans

Persistent

Saves high-contrast preference.

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About us

Find out about what our charity does, who we are and the impact we have on blind veterans' lives.

Blind veteran Ken and volunteer Liam laughing as they walk together outside, both wrapped up warm in winter clothing

Help & info

Find out what we do for veterans, if you're eligible for our support, and get advice on dealing with sight loss.

Blind veteran Connie, wearing dark sunglasses and laughing as she speaks to Blind Veterans UK staff member

Support us

We need your help to change blind veterans' lives. Find out more about how you can donate, fundraise or volunteer.

Charity supporter Dominic smiling as he runs along a crowd, wearing a Blind Veterans UK vest and holding his hand out to wave as he passes