Cookie policy
This website, like many others uses cookies. Cookies are small files that get stored on your device when you visit a website that uses them.
They can be used for a number of different purposes, from preventing malicious attacks on websites to storing your personal viewing preferences. Outlined below are the cookies that we use on this site and what they are for.
Functional and Required Cookies
Squarespace, our hosting company, uses some necessary cookies because they allow visitors to navigate and use key features on this site. For example, Functional and Required Cookies help these features work:
Cookie Name: Crumb
Duration: Session
Purpose: Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF). CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browser into taking unwanted action in an application when someone’s logged in.
Cookie Name: Locked
Duration: Session
Purpose: Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.
Cookie Name: squarespace-announcement-bar
Duration: Persistent
Purpose: Prevents the Announcement Bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it
Cookie Name: RecentRedirect
Duration: 30 minutes
Purpose: Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.
Cookie Name: squarespace-popup-overlay
Duration: Persistent
Purpose: Prevents the Promotional Pop-Up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.
Cookie Name: Test
Duration: Session
Purpose: Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
We use Analytics and Performance cookies to collect information about how visitors interact with this site. This information is then stored and interpreted to give us various insights to the use of this site, such as traffic sources, unique visitors, and page views.
Cookie Name: _ga
Duration: 2 years
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
Cookie Name: _gat_gtag_UA
Duration: 1 minute
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
Cookie Name: _hjIncludeInSample
Duration: Session
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
Cookie Name: ss_cid
Duration: 2 years
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
Cookie Name: ss_cvisit
Duration: 30 minutes
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
Cookie Name: ss_cpvisit
Duration: 2 years
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
Cookie Name: _gid
Duration: 2 years
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
Cookie Name: _hjid
Duration: 1 year
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
Cookie Name: ss_cvr
Duration: 2 years
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
Cookie Name: ss_cvt
Duration: 30 minutes
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
Cookie Name: ss_cookieAllowed
Duration: 30 days
Purpose: Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies
Cookie Name: ss_cvr
Duration: 2 years
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
Checking your cookies
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Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how visitors use this site. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are small text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The anonymised information generated by Google Analytics cookies about your use of this website is transmitted directly to Google. This information is processed to compile statistical reports on website activity for this website only. The Diocese of Newcastle use these reports to evaluate aggregate visitor usage so that we can optimise the content, and its marketing, to better meet your needs. For further details, please see Google Analytics privacy policy by clicking here. To find out how Google Analytics anonymises IP addresses, click here.
You can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites by visiting this opt-out link.
Hotjar
We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimise this service and experience. Hotjar is a service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behaviour and their devices (in particular device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymised form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonym-ised user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.
You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.