Cookie policy

Our website, like many others, stores and retrieves information on your browser using cookies. This policy explains how we use them on our website.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of data that our website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. Cookies let websites recognise your device, so that the sites can work more effectively, and also gather information about how you use the site. For example, a cookie can include the date and time of visits to the website, the sites visited just before and just after it, the pages viewed, and the time spent on the website. A cookie, by itself, can’t be used to identify you.

The cookies we use

Based on length, there are Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they expire. Session cookies are used to remember your browsing selection or provide you with secure access to some of the services on the website. Persistent cookies are used to recognise you as a repeat visitor to the Website and adapt its content in line with your preferences.

We use the categorisation set out by the International Chamber of Commerce in their UK Cookie Guide. We use all four categories of cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies are essential for you to move around our website and to use its features.
• Performance cookies collect anonymous information about how you use our site, like which pages are visited most.
• Functionality cookies collect anonymous information that remember choices you make to improve your experience, like your text size or location. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog.
• Targeting or advertising cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests. As such if you visit the Hampton Trust website you may then be more likely to see adverts about Hampton Trust’s work on other websites as your browsing suggests that this is an area of interest.

How we use cookies

Our website uses cookies to facilitate your use of the website, distinguish you from other users, offer you a better user experience and identify problems in order to improve our website. Should you give your consent, we will use cookies that enable us to gather more information on your preferences and tailor our website to your individual interests.

We may also use cookies to help us understand how you use our website and to make advertising more engaging to our users and more valuable to publishers and advertisers.

If you interact with the content of our website, third-party cookies may also be installed (for example, by clicking on social media buttons or viewing videos housed on other sites). They are established by a domain different than our website and are subject to the relevant websites’ policies. We cannot access the data stored in cookies of other websites when you browse these other websites.

Your consent

When you first visit our website, you will be able to consent to the type of cookies to be used.

You can decide to withdraw your consent at any time by deleting the cookies on your computer (or mobile device) using the settings and configuration of your internet browser, or by changing your preferences on our website..

You can opt out of all our cookies (except the strictly necessary ones). But, if you choose to refuse all cookies, our website may not function for you as we would like it to. If you have any questions about how we use cookies, please contact us.

Disabling and blocking cookies

Our system will automatically create cookies when you visit our website. Cookies are not necessary for the use of our website, so you can block or disable them by configuring your browser to allow you to block the installation of some or all cookies. Almost all browsers allow you to be alerted to the presence of cookies or block them automatically.

If you block cookies, you can continue to use our website, although some services may be limited and you may not experience the full functionality of our website. For more information on deleting, disabling or blocking cookies, please visit www.aboutcookies.org

Changes to the cookies policy

We reserve the right to amend, update or adapt this Cookies Policy to reflect any changes in legislation or in the interpretation by the relevant data protection agency.