Giving Gateway cookies policy

What are cookies and why do we use them?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit and certain emails that you open. They are widely used in order to make websites operate, or function, more efficiently, as well as to provide business and marketing information.

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies.

Giving Gateway Inc. will only read or write Transactional cookies – these are cookies used during your website visit for essential features. These include identifying the country and language to be used, identifying which version of the website you are using (e.g. mobile or desktop), and your IP Address for completing donations and website stability.

These cookies are classified as necessary to operate the site and complete successful donations.

The information we collect from cookies enables us to:

Tailor our websites to your personal needs

Remember the notifications that you have been shown, so that you are not shown them again
Make improvements and updates to our websites based on the way you want to use them
Track donation progress and help us improve our donor/user experience

What kind of cookies do we use?

We use the following categories of cookies:

Category 1: necessary cookies
Necessary cookies enable you to use our websites and all their features, such as enabling access to secure areas of the website, and for transaction processing. Without these cookies you may not be able to use all the features of our websites.

Category 2: functionality cookies (Transactional cookies)

Functionality cookies enable us to provide users with improved user-experience and streamline the donation process such that transactional data is recorded for the duration of the transaction, and destroyed at the completed transaction-cycle which ends with either a success or failure of donation transactions.

Category 3: performance cookies (Third Party)

Performance cookies collect information about how you use our websites so we can improve them for you in future. For example, they collect information on which pages you visit most often and any error messages you may get. The information collected by these cookies is anonymous. They do not collect any information that can identify you personally.

Google Analytics (universal): we are using Google Universal Analytics to monitor our website performances and check visitor activities to adapt our content based on their expectations
Facebook Pixel: we use Facebook pixel tracking to measure social media campaign efficiency related to the Facebook platform

What are your choices regarding cookies?

If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies, you might not be able to use all of the features offered on the website such as the donation form.

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