National Rural Crime Network

Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet or smart TV’s when you access a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently (i.e. for making improvements to the site, by allowing the website to recognise your device and store information about past actions or preferences).

We use the following cookies:

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet or smart TV’s when you access a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently (i.e. for making improvements to the site, by allowing the website to recognise your device and store information about past actions or preferences).

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies are essential and without them, parts of the site won’t work. As such, they can’t be switched off. They are the cookies that enable you to log in to secure areas of our site, set your privacy preferences or submit forms for example. These cookies do not store any personal information that can identify you.
  • Performance cookies. They allow us to recognise how visitors arrive at our site, 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 site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. All information collected by these cookies collect aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.
  • Functional cookies. These cookies enable our website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages They are used to recognise you when you return to our site and can remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web page which you can customise. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

You can use your web browser to delete or block cookies and clear all cookies when you close your browser. You can also chose to open a ‘private’ or ‘incognito’ browser session, which allows you to browse the internet without storing local data.

Blocking cookies will not stop you from using our website, but we will be unable to capture information about your experience online and make improvements.

Controlling cookies in your browser

Google Analytics uses its own cookies. Although Google Analytics places a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit this site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google.

Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

You can choose to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites.
Additionally, third-party widgets such as YouTube, Twitter or Flickr may install cookies depending on their configuration. You are not required to accept any cookies to use this site and opting out of these services will not stop you using our website.

QUESTIONS OR COMPLAINTS: CONTACT US

We reiterate that by submitting your personal information to us you consent to the use of that personal information as set out in this privacy policy. If you have any questions, concerns, comments or complaints about this privacy policy and/or our collection or use of personal information, or if you wish us to stop processing your personal information for any particular purpose or purposes, then please contact us through the website.