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Last updated: 30th September 2026
About this policy
Royal Berks Charity is the working name of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Charity, registered charity number 1052720. In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the Charity.
This policy explains how cookies and similar technologies are used on www.royalberkscharity.co.uk, what they do and how you can control them. We want you to feel confident using our website and to have a clear choice about optional tracking.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files stored on your computer, phone or tablet when you visit a website. They can help a website work, remember a choice or collect information about how it is used.
Similar technologies include browser storage and tracking pixels. Where these store or access information on your device, the same privacy rules can apply. In this policy, “cookies” includes these technologies where relevant.
How do we use cookies?
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
Necessary
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| wt_consent | 1 year | The WebToffee GDPR Cookie Consent plugin sets this cookie to store the user’s consent preferences, allowing the website to recognise those choices on future visits. The cookie does not collect or store any personal or identifiable information about the visitor. |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | session | WordPress sets this cookie when a user interacts with emojis on a WordPress site. It helps determine if the user's browser can display emojis properly. |
| m | 1 year 1 month 4 days | Stripe sets this cookie for fraud prevention purposes. It identifies the device used to access the website, allowing the website to be formatted accordingly. |
| __stripe_mid | 1 year | Stripe sets this cookie to set a unique session identifier to recognize users across sessions. |
| __stripe_sid | 1 hour | Stripe sets this cookie to set a unique session identifier for a single session. |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to store the user's cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| __cf_bm | 1 hour | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. |
| _pxvid | 1 year | PerimeterX sets this cookie to detect fraud and bot activity. |
| _px3 | 6 minutes | This cookie is set by the Bloomberg to protect the site from BOT attacks. |
Functional
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 6 months | A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | never | The cookie ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY is used by YouTube to store the last search result entry that was clicked by the user. This information is used to improve the user experience by providing more relevant search results in the future. |
Analytics
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| sbjs_migrations | session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. |
| sbjs_current_add | session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. |
| sbjs_first_add | session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. |
| sbjs_current | session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. |
| sbjs_first | session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. |
| sbjs_udata | session | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. |
| sbjs_session | 1 hour | Sourcebuster sets this cookie to identify the source of a visit and stores user action information in cookies. This analytical and behavioural cookie is used to enhance the visitor experience on the website. |
| YSC | session | YSC cookie is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos on Youtube pages. |
Performance
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| No cookies to display. | ||
Advertisement
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __Secure-YNID | 6 months | YouTube cookie used to protect user security and prevent fraud, especially during the login process. |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | 6 months | YouTube sets this cookie to manage feature rollout and experimentation. It helps Google control which new features or interface changes are shown to users as part of testing and staged rollouts, ensuring consistent experience for a given user during an experiment. |
| __Secure-YEC | past | Description is currently not available. |
| NID | 6 months | Google sets the cookie for advertising purposes; to limit the number of times the user sees an ad, to unwanted mute ads, and to measure the effectiveness of ads. |
Others
Other cookies are those that are being identified and have not been classified into any category as yet.
| Cookie | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|
| __Secure-BUCKET | 6 months | Description is currently not available. |
| __cflb | 1 hour | This cookie is used by Cloudflare for load balancing. |
| hmt_id | 1 month | Description is currently not available. |
| smp_paymentservices | 1 day | Description is currently not available. |
| pxcts | session | Description is currently not available. |
| _pxde | 6 minutes | No description available. |
Cookies are small files stored on your computer, phone or tablet when you visit a website. They can help a website work, remember a choice or collect information about how it is used.
Similar technologies include browser storage and tracking pixels. Where these store or access information on your device, the same privacy rules can apply. In this policy, “cookies” includes these technologies where relevant.
Your choices
We use essential cookies where they are necessary to provide a service you request or to transmit information. We ask for your consent before using optional cookies, including optional analytics, preference and marketing cookies.
When you first visit, our cookie banner lets you accept all optional cookies, reject all optional cookies or choose your preferences by category. Optional cookies are switched off until you choose to accept them. Rejecting them is as easy as accepting them.
Continuing to browse, scrolling or closing the banner does not give consent. You can read about our work and support the Charity without accepting optional cookies. Some optional features, such as embedded videos, may need separate permission.
Cookie choices are separate from your preferences for receiving emails or other fundraising communications. Accepting cookies does not sign you up to our mailing list.
Types of cookies
The categories below explain the purposes cookies can serve. The cookie list identifies the technologies actually used on our website.
Essential cookies. These support functions needed to deliver a service you request, such as maintaining a secure session, remembering your cookie choices or keeping items in a basket. They do not require consent when the relevant legal exception applies and cannot be switched off through our cookie controls.
Analytics cookies. These help us understand how visitors use the website, such as which pages are visited and where visitors encounter problems. We use this information to improve our website. Under this policy, optional analytics cookies are used only with your consent.
Preference and feature cookies. These remember optional choices or support additional features. Cookies that are essential to a feature you have specifically requested may be treated differently; the cookie list explains this. Other preference and feature cookies require your consent under this policy.
Marketing cookies. If used, these help measure advertising campaigns or show relevant advertising on other websites or social platforms. They may allow providers to link your visit with other information they hold. We ask for consent before enabling them and identify the providers and purposes in the cookie list.
How long cookies last
Session cookies usually expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain for a specified period unless you delete them earlier. The cookie list gives the expiry of each cookie and whether its duration is renewed when you return. This is different from how long a provider keeps information collected through a cookie, which is explained in the relevant privacy information.
Other organisations and linked websites
First party cookies are set on our website’s domain. Third party cookies are set on another organisation’s domain. A cookie on our own domain can still be used by an external provider, so the cookie list identifies who receives information as well as who sets it.
Where we embed content or tools provided by another organisation, we apply the consent choices described here to optional tracking on our website. When you follow a link to a separate donation, fundraising, ticketing or social media website, that provider’s own cookie and privacy information applies. Your choices on our website do not automatically apply there.
Changing or withdrawing consent
You can change your choices or withdraw consent at any time using [insert the exact name and location of the cookie settings control]. Withdrawing consent is as easy as giving it. Your choices apply to the browser and device you are using; you may need to make them again on a different device or after deleting cookies.
If you withdraw consent, we stop the relevant optional tracking and notify providers where necessary. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before it. Existing cookies may also need to be removed from your browser; changing your preference does not automatically delete every third party cookie.
You can also use your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Blocking essential cookies may prevent features such as forms or checkout from working. Your browser’s help pages explain how to manage its settings. Listed below are the links to the support documents on how to manage and delete cookies from the major web browsers.
Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Microsoft Edge: Delete cookies in Microsoft Edge – Microsoft Support
If you are using any other web browser, please visit your browser’s official support documents.
Cookies and personal information
Information collected through cookies can include online identifiers, IP addresses and details of visits or interactions. It may be personal information even if it does not include your name.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information, who it may be shared with, any relevant international transfers, retention and your data protection rights. Providers’ privacy information is linked in the cookie list.
Changes to this policy
We review this policy when our website, the technologies we use or relevant guidance changes. We update the date above when we revise it. Where new purposes require consent, we ask for fresh consent before enabling them. A change to this policy does not itself give us your consent.
Contact us
If you have questions about cookies, your choices or this policy, please contact us:
Email:[email protected]
Telephone: 0118 322 8860
Post: Royal Berks Charity, Royal Berkshire Hospital, London Road, Reading RG1 5AN
You can also raise a concern with the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
