Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored by the browser (for example, Internet Explorer) on your computer or electronic device. They allow websites to remember you for a period of time so that they can store things like user preferences and make the website quicker and easier for you to use.
Without cookies, some things on websites would not be able to work: for example, without cookies it might not be possible to know whether or not you are logged in on a website, which would prevent you from being able to see content restricted to logged-in users.
How does the Ealing Symphony Orchestra website use cookies?
A visit to a page on the Ealing Symphony Orchestra website may create the following types of cookie:
Anonymous Analytics Cookies.
Anonymous analytics cookies
Every time someone visits our website, software provided by other organisations (Google Analytics and SquareSpace) generates an 'anonymous analytics cookie'.
These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before and what pages you visit. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and, if you don't, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual users we have, and how often they visit the site. We use them to gather statistics, for example, the number of visits to a page, to help us identify if visitors would benefit from more information on a particular area.
How do I turn cookies off?
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the 'Help' option in your browser for more details.
Useful links
You can find out more about cookies and their use on the internet from allaboutcookies.org.