Our Cookies Policy
At St Gregory’s Foundation we are committed to ensuring that you are aware of what cookies we use and how we use them.
This policy explains which cookies we apply and their purpose. A cookie is a small file placed on your computer or device by the site when you visit certain parts of it and/or when you use certain features of it. We may change our policy from time to time and we ask that you check each time you use the site, to view any changes.
Any questions regarding this policy should be sent by email to info@stgregorysfoundation.org.uk or by writing to SGF c/o 4 Bushy Court, 20 Upper Teddington Road, Hampton Wick, Surrey KT1 4DU. Alternatively, you can telephone 0203 372 4992.
In practice, our current work is concentrated almost exclusively on assisting socially disadvantaged and disabled children and young people and enabling young orphans and families to become as independent as possible.
We work entirely through local partner organisations to ensure that appropriate local solutions are found to problems, and to help strengthen the local charity sector. We only work with those individuals and organisations who help those in need, irrespective of religion, ethnicity or political views, who meet high standards of transparency in their activities, and share our ethic of empowering their beneficiaries.
Who are we and how can you contact us?
We are St Gregory’s Foundation, registered charity no. 1002469. You can contact us at 4 Bushy Court, 20 Upper Teddington Road, Hampton Wick, Surrey KT1 4DU and our phone number is 0203 372 4992.
For further information, you should contact our Executive Secretary, Julia Ashmore, by email on info@stgregorysfoundation.org.uk.
How does our site use cookies?
When you access the Site, it may place and access certain first party cookies on your computer or device. First party cookies are those placed directly and are only used by us. We use cookies to make sure that the service we provide on the site is the best it can be.
We have carefully chosen these cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.
You may also receive certain third party cookies on your computer or device. Third party cookies are those placed by websites, services, and/or parties other than us. Third party cookies are used for various reasons, including payments made to us, for analytic purposes and to assist us in providing our services.
Cookie types
All cookies used by and on the Site are used in accordance with current cookie law and we may, from time to time, use some or all of the following:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies – ones essential to the operation of the Site, supporting functions such as logging in, your shopping basket, and payment transactions.
- Analytics Cookies – we need to understand how you use the site; for example, how efficiently you are able to navigate around it, and what features you use. Analytics cookies enable us to gather this information, helping us to improve the Site and your experience of it.
- Functionality Cookies – these enable us to provide additional functions such as personalisation and remembering your saved preferences. Some functionality cookies may also be strictly necessary cookies, but not all necessarily fall into that category.
- Targeting Cookies – we like to know when and how often you visit the Site, and which parts of it you have used. This information helps us better to understand you and, in turn, to make the Site and advertising more relevant to your interests.
- Third Party Cookies – are not placed by us; instead, they are placed by third parties that provide services to us and/or to you. They may be used by advertising services to serve up tailored advertising to you on the Site, or by third parties providing analytics services to us (these cookies will work in the same way as analytics cookies described above).
- Persistent Cookies – are those which remain on your computer or device for a predetermined period and are activated each time you visit the Site. All of the cookies we have mentioned may be persistent cookies.
- Session Cookies – are temporary and only remain on your computer or device from the point at which you visit the Site until you close your browser. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser. All of the cookies we have mentioned may be session cookies.
Cookies on the Site are not permanent and will expire as indicated in the table below.
For more details of the personal data that we collect and use, the measures we have in place to protect personal data, your legal rights, and our legal obligations, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
For more specific details of the cookies that we use, please refer to the table below.
What cookies does the Site use?
First party cookies: https://stgregorysfoundation.org.uk
| Name of Cookie | Purpose & Type | Strictly Necessary |
| wordpress_test_cookie | The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users’ browser supports cookies. | Yes |
| hustle_module_show_count-popup-4 | This cookie is generated by our Hustle plug-in, which we use to manage informational and marketing pop ups across our website. This cookie is used to ensure the correct behaviours of pop ups, specifically as to whether it needs to be displayed (or if the user has already seen the pop up the desired number of times). | No |
| inc_optin_popup_long_hidden-4 | This cookie is generated by our Hustle plug-in, which we use to manage informational and marketing pop ups across our website. This cookie is used to ensure the correct behaviours of pop ups, specifically as to whether it needs to be displayed (or if the user has already seen the pop up the desired number of times). | No |
First party cookies: https://shop.stgregorysfoundation.org.uk/
| Name of Cookie | Purpose & Type | Strictly Necessary |
| LASTVISITEDCATEGORY | Tracks last visited category to build product breadcrumbs | Yes |
| RECENTLY_VIEWED_PRODUCTS | Keeps track of products which the user has viewed to show recently viewed block | Yes |
| SHOP_ORDER_TOKEN | Representation of the order | Yes |
| SHOP_SESSION_TOKEN | Representation of the user session | Yes |
| SHOP_TOKEN | Essential for security; used to store the customers hash after logging in & is used for customer look up | Yes |
| STORE_VISITOR | Used to track anonymous site usage | Yes |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Token to avoid Cross-site request forgery, also known as one-click attack or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF | Yes |
| Shopper-Pref | Used to store Shopper Preferences such as Currency | Yes |
| tracking-preferences | Used to store shopper tracking preferences when consent manager is enabled. To help determine what type of Scripts(Essential, etc) will load | Yes |
| bc_consent | Used to determine if the shopper has consented to tracking when the consent manager is enabled. | Yes |
| SHOP_SESSION_ROTATION_TOKEN | Essential for security; used for cart/checkout sessions | Yes |
| SHOP_DEVICE_TOKEN | Essential for security; used for lockouts | Yes |
Third party cookies
| Name of Cookie | Purpose & Type | Provider | Strictly Necessary |
| AWSALBCORS | This cookie is used for load balancing services provded by Amazon inorder to optimize the user experience. Amazon has updated the ALB and CLB so that customers can continue to use the CORS request with stickness. | admin. giveasyoulive. com | Yes |
| AWSALB | AWSALB is a cookie generated by the Application load balancer in the Amazon Web Services. It works slightly different from AWSELB. | admin. giveasyoulive. com | No |
The Site uses analytics services provided by Google and others. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling us to better understand how the Site is used. This, in turn, enables us to improve the Site and theproducts offered through it. You do not have to allow us to use these cookies, however whilst our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of the Site, it does enable us to continually improve the Site, making it a better and more useful experience for you.
The analytics service(s) used by the Site use(s) analytics cookies to gather the required information.
The analytics service(s) used by the Site use(s) the following analytics cookies:
| Name of Cookie | Purpose & Type | Provider | Strictly Necessary |
| FORNAX_ANONYMOUSID | Analytics | BigCommerce | No |
| _ga | The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site’s analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors. | No | |
| _gid | Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website’s performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. | No | |
| _gat_gtag_UA_29465131_1 | This cookie is set by Google and is used to distinguish users. | No |
Consent and control
Before cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown a pop-up requesting your consent to set those cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of cookies you are enabling us to provide the best possible experience and service to you.
You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of cookies unless those cookies are strictly necessary; however certain features of the Site may not function fully or as intended.
In addition to the controls that we provide, you can choose to enable or disable cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all cookies or only third party cookies. By default, most internet browsers accept cookies but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser or the documentation that came with your device.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of the Site after the changes have been made. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.
If there is a conflict between the current version of this Cookie Policy and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.
How regularly is the policy reviewed?
The policy is reviewed every two years, last update September 2021.
