Cookies Policy

COOKIE POLICY 

Like most websites, we use cookies on www.trust.org (“our website”). This cookies policy tells you more about our use of cookies and the choices you have. Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website. 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. 

We use the following cookies: 

  • Strictly necessary/ Essential 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. Essential cookies enable the core functionality of our website such as security, authentication, and accessibility. We use the following strictly necessary/ essential cookies in our website: 
Name Description Duration 
moove_gdpr_popupThis cookie is used by the the platform to store your cookie preference selection and determine whether the cookie menu should be open or minimised.  1 year 

We use essential cookies based on our legitimate interest to ensure the core functionalities 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. We use the following analytical cookies in our website: 
Name Description Duration 
_vis_opt_exp_n_combi and _vis_opt_s These cookies are used by the Visual Website Optimizer (VWO) service to allow us to run experiments on page layout and content to better present our information. These cookies ensure you see the same version of the page if you return to it and allow us to check whether you are a new or returning visitor.  3 months 
_vwo_ds This cookie is also used by VWO to help measure the performance of different versions of web pages, specifically persistent visitor-level data for VWO Insights such as whether a user has been served a specific page version. 1 month 
_vwo_uuid
 
This cookie is also used by VWO to help us measure performance, specifically to compare performance when a user is shown different versions of a page and associate that difference with a unique ID 1 year 
_vwo_sn This cookie is also used by VWO to assist the measurement of page performance on a per-session basis, which is why it is not maintained for long.  A few seconds 
_vis_opt_test_cookie This cookie is used by VWO to test whether your browser is set to allow cookies. 1 year 
_ga and other cookies prefixed with _ga These cookies are used by Google Analytics to measure traffic and engagement across the website, allowing us to filter by a range of segments to better understand our site visitors.  1 year 
Cookies prefixed with _hjSession These cookies are used by HotJar to allow us to run experiments on different parts of the page and record and measure how site visitors behave across the site. 1 year 

We use analytics cookies only if you have provided your consent. You can access and change your preferences at any time by clicking on the “Cookie Settings” link in the footer of every page.  

  • Functionality 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). We use the following functionality cookies in our website: 
Name Description Duration 
_vwo_uuid_v2 This cookie is used by the VWO service to generate a unique ID for each visitor, allowing us to segment reports in VWO. 1 year 

We use functionality cookies only if you have provided your consent. You can access and change your preferences at any time by clicking on the “Cookie Settings” link in the footer of every page.  

  • 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. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose so that they can serve you with relevant advertising on their websites. 
Name Description Duration 
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA Used by YouTube to collect user data when viewing embedded videos, which is then aggregated with profile data from other Google services to display targeted web advertising.  5 months 

We use targeting cookies only if you have provided your consent. You can access and change your preferences at any time by clicking on the “Cookie Settings” link in the footer of every page.  

THIRD PARTY COOKIES 

Please note that third parties, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies. 

To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, you may visit the relevant consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies. 

YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES  

You can block or disable cookies on your device at any time by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser. You can choose which analytical/performance, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by clicking on the button(s): 

Strictly necessary cookies ALWAYS ACTIVE 

Analytical or performance cookies OFF 

Functionality cookies OFF 

Targeting cookies OFF 

You can also choose to “Reject All” cookies in the cookie banner which will block all cookies except strictly necessary cookies.

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. 

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at [email protected].  

September 2024