COOKIE POLICY

When you visit the Combined Cadet Force website small pieces of information are stored on your computer. These are known as Cookies.

To improve your experience and make this website simpler to use, we sometimes place small amounts of information on your computer, mobile phone or device. These include small files known as cookies.

The cookies used on this website improve your experience by:

  • Recognising your settings – so you don’t need to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page
  • Remembering the information that you’ve given (e.g. your username and password) - so you don't need to keep entering it
  • Measuring how you use our website - so we can make improvements that meet your needs
  • Tracking the websites that you use - so our advertising using third-party networks is better targeted and more relevant to you
  • Our cookies contain anonymous information such as a unique identifier but this information is not used to identify you personally.

The cookies used on this website can be grouped into the following categories:

  1. Strictly necessary cookies – required to enable you to move around the website and use essential features
  2. Statistic cookies - collect information about how you use our website and help us improve performance and provide a better user experience
  3. Targeting cookies – used by advertising networks to track your browsing across the internet whilst enabling us to enhance our website with services provided by third-parties

Some cookies are set directly by the armycadets.com website. Others are set by third-parties when you visit the Combined Cadet Force website. Third-party cookies include those set by advertising networks, the partners we use for web analytics, and external websites delivering embedded content and videos (e.g. YouTube and Vimeo).

Cookies are stored on your computer for different lengths of time depending on what they are used for. Session cookies are temporary cookies and are only stored until you leave the website or when you close your web browser. Persistent cookies last for a fixed period of time, defined within the cookie, and allow the website to recognise the device and track repeat visits.

We do not sell the information collected by cookies.

Further information about individual cookies used on this website is provided below.

HOW CAN I CONTROL COOKIES?

If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can change your browser settings to reject new cookies or delete those that have already been set.

You can choose to accept or reject the functionality and targeting cookies set by the Combined Cadet Force website using the cog button in the bottom left corner of your screen and can change these settings at any time.

You will also be given the opportunity to change your cookie settings when you first visit our website. If you continue to browse the website without changing your cookie settings, we will assume you are happy to accept all types of cookie on the Combined Cadet Force website.

You can accept or reject functionality or targeting cookies at any time by changing your cookie settings, although third-party advertising networks may continue to use the information previously collected through targeting cookies.

You cannot change the settings for strictly necessary or performance cookies because these are required to provide a good browsing experience and allow us to collect basic statistics on website usage.

If you create an online account, you will be asked to accept the cookies required for the online application when you register or log in.

In addition to managing the cookie settings on this website, you can opt-out of tracking and targeting cookies by following the instructions provided on the appropriate third-party websites. We have provided links to help you find this information and set your preferences.

Do Not Track (DNT) is a feature offered by some browsers but is not currently supported by this website. When enabled, it sends a request to the website not to track your browsing, but a universal standard to determine how DNT requests are to be interpreted has not yet been adopted by software providers and website owners.

To learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org.

WHAT COOKIES ARE USED ON THE Combined Cadet Force WEBSITE?

The following cookies are strictly necessary to enable you to move around the website and use essential features. These cookies don’t collect any information that is used to identify you personally.

Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the Army website. If you prevent these cookies, we may be unable to protect your privacy or predict how our website will perform during your visit.

STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES SET BY THE COMBINED CADET FORCE

CONSENT - Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.

CraftSessionId - Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes

test_cookie - Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies.

Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

STATISTIC COOKIES SET BY THE COMBINED CADET FORCE

_at.hist.# - Used by the social sharing platform AddThis to store the user's usage history of the AddThis sharing widget

_ga - Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

_gat - Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate

_gid - Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.

Targeting cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

TARGETING COOKIES SET BY THE COMBINED CADET FORCE

__atuvc - Updates the counter of a website's social sharing features.

__atuvs - Ensures that the updated counter is displayed to the user if a page is shared with the social sharing service, AddThis.

_at.cww - Used by the social sharing platform AddThis

at-lojson-cache-# - Used by the social sharing platform AddThis

at-rand - Used by the social sharing platform AddThis

IDE - Used by Google DoubleClick to register and report the website user's actions after viewing or clicking one of the advertiser's ads with the purpose of measuring the efficacy of an ad and to present targeted ads to the user.

loc - Geolocation, which is used to help providers determine how users who share information with each other are geographically located (state level).

uvc - Detects how often the social sharing service, AddThis, encounters the same user.

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE - Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.

xtc - Registers the user's sharing of content via social media.

YSC - Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

yt.innertube::nextId - Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

yt.innertube::requests - Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.

yt-remote-cast-available - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video

yt-remote-cast-installed - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video

yt-remote-connected-devices - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video

yt-remote-device-id - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video

yt-remote-fast-check-period - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video

yt-remote-session-app - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video

yt-remote-session-name - Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video