LifeArc (“we”, “our”, “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. Our registered name is LifeArc and we are a company incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom at Lynton House 7-12 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9LT.

LifeArc is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales under registration number 1015243 and a charity registered in Scotland with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator under registration number SC037861. LifeArc is also a company limited by guarantee, with company 2698321, incorporated under the laws of England and Wales at Lynton House 7-12 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9LT.

This notice explains how and why we use cookies on our website www.lifearc.org. Please read our Privacy Policy for further information about how we process your personal data.

If you have any questions about this notice or the practices of this website, you can contact us by phone at +44 (0) 20 7391 2700 or contact us via the Contact us form on the website.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by a website when you visit it. They contain details of your browsing history on that website and distinguish you from other users. Cookies send data back to the originating website on each subsequent visit or allow another website to recognise the cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device and, for instance, remember your preferences and generally improve your online user experience.

Although this notice refers to the general term ‘cookie’, it also applies to similar tracking technologies that we may use (such as ‘web beacons’, ‘clear GIFs’ and ‘pixel tags’).

You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.

Why do we use cookies?

We use cookies to:

• Let you navigate and do things on the website – in other words, some cookies are necessary for the website to function.
• Collect statistics – the information collected by cookies enables us to improve the website through usage figures and patterns. For example, to see which pages of the website are the most popular and how users are interacting with them.
• Analyse how individuals interact with us so we can improve our services.Ensure that our website is secure – for example, to make sure that personal data that you give to us does not fall into the wrong hands.

We also follow a standard procedure of using log files. These files log information about visitors when they visit websites. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, time stamp and the referring page. The purpose of the information is for analysing trends and security.

How we use cookies

1. Necessary cookies

Name of cookie	Purpose	Provider	Duration
OptanonConsent	This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor.	OneTrust	1 year
__cf_bm	The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie	OneTrust	A few seconds
OptanonAlertBoxClosed	This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust.  It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and in some cases only when they actively close the notice down.  It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.	OneTrust	1 year

2. Analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics Cookies to collect information about the number of visitors viewing content on our website, including the pages they visited. We use the information to help us improve the website.

Below is a list of Google cookies that we use, with details over what they are used for:

Name of cookie	Purpose	Provider	Duration
_ga_xxxxxxxxxx	This cookie collects information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information this cookie collects is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.	Google	1 year
_ga	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.	Google	1 year

Accepting cookies

By clicking ‘accept all cookies’ when you visit our website you consent to our use of cookies as updated from time to time. In particular, you consent to cookies being stored on your computer or mobile device (unless rejected or disabled by your browser).

As some of our cookies are necessary for the functioning of our website, you cannot opt out of our use of those cookies.

If you reject our use of cookies as set out above, please click on ‘cookies settings’ to indicate your preferences, or select the ‘reject all’ button. Alternatively, you may set your browser to reject cookies. However, please be aware that rejecting our use of cookies may impair or limit your ability to use the website.

The function which enables you to disable cookies is usually found in the options, settings or preferences menu of your browser or mobile device. Most browsers let you turn off either all or third-party cookies. What you are able to do depends on which browser you are using.

Updates to this notice

We may update this notice and so we recommend that you check this notice regularly. We aim to notify you of any significant changes by way of a notice on the website or by contacting you directly when reasonably possible.

Date: April 2024