CACH-ALL Cookie Policy
Last updated: September 2025
The CACH-ALL website at cach.org.uk uses cookies and similar technologies. This Cookie Policy describes what cookies are, why we use them, which cookies we use, and how you can manage cookies used on our website.
What are cookies?
Cookies (not the edible kind) are small text files that are stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer when you visit our website. Some cookies that we use may collect personal data about you – please see our website privacy policy for more information about the personal data we collect and process.
Why do we use cookies?
CACH-ALL uses cookies for numerous reasons including to distinguish you from other users of our website, to help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our website.
Generally, we will use the following four categories of cookies on our website:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website or make use of e-billing services. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.
- Analytical or performance cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functional cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
Which cookies do we use?
Please see the table below for more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them:
| Cookie Name | Cookie Category | Description | Duration |
| swpm_session | Strictly Necessary | To manage the login to the membership side of our website. The cookie keeps login records so users don’t have to login each time while moving to the next page | Session |
| _hjSession_[ID] | Functional | Provided by HotJar.To provide functions across pages. | Session |
| _hjSessionUser_[ID] | Analytical | Provided by HotJar. To store a unique user ID. | 365 days |
| wpEmojiSettingsSupports | Necessary | 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. | session |
| rc::a | Necessary | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | Never expires |
| rc::c | Necessary | This cookie is set by the Google recaptcha service to identify bots to protect the website against malicious spam attacks. | session |
wp_consent_preferences | Necessary | WP Consent API sets this cookie to collect anonymous data on website usage and help to analyze and enhance the sites’ performance. | 1 month |
| wp_consent_statistics | Necessary | WP Consent API sets this cookie to collect anonymous data on website usage and help to analyze and enhance the sites’ performance. | 1 month |
| wp_consent_statistics-anonymous | Necessary | WP Consent API sets this cookie to understand how the website is used, which enables enhanced user content and services and respects privacy. | 1 month |
| wp_consent_functional | Necessary | WP Consent API sets this cookie to remember user preferences for essential website functionalities, ensuring a seamless and personalized experience. | 1 month |
| wp_consent_marketing | Necessary | WP Consent API sets this cookie to record user consent choices for marketing cookies. This ensures that users only receive advertisements tailored to their interests. | 1 month |
| cookieyes-consent | Necessary | CookieYes sets this cookie to remember users’ consent preferences so that their preferences are respected on subsequent visits to this site. It does not collect or store any personal information about the site visitors. | 1 year |
| _ga | Analytics | 1 year 1 month 4 days | |
| _ga_* | Analytics | Google Analytics sets this cookie to store and count page views. | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
- WP Membership: This allows you to log into our website safely and recognises you when you put in your membership login data.
How can you manage cookies used on our website
When you use the CACH-ALL website, you will be asked to consent to our use of cookies as described in this Cookie Policy.
Our website also uses strictly necessary cookies for which we do not require your consent.
You can consent to, revoke or block the use of specific cookies by interacting with the cookie banner that is provided when you first enter the website or by clicking the cookie icon in the left hand corner of our website.
- To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics, visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.