This is the cookies policy for the website of FARA Foundation (Charity number 1139349) whose address is Suite 1, Level 2, 8 Waldegrave Road (“we”, “us” and “our”) which is at https://www.faracharity.org/ (“Website”).
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 site.
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 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. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts 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.
- 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).
- 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.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Type
| Duration |
| reCAPTCHA | This cookie is placed when you visit the Website and is used to track and analyse your behaviour to distinguish humans from bots or automated software. | Strictly necessary | Up to one year |
| PHP.net PHPSESSID | These cookies are placed when you visit the Website and are used to maintain your session whilst you use other areas of the Website, or when you leave and return to the page. | Functionality | Expires when the browser is closed |
We also use some third-party cookies on our Website and the details of these are set out in the table below:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Type
| Duration |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIV | This cookie is set by YouTube and collects user data from videos embedded on the Website so that YouTube can personalise advertising across different websites. YouTube is owned by Google, who use this cookie with their SID cookie to verify Google user accounts and their most recent login time. | Targeting | Up to 6 months |
| YSC | This cookie is set by YouTube and collects user data from videos embedded on the Website to track views and personalise advertising across different websites. YouTube is owned by Google, who use this cookie with their SID cookie to verify Google user account and most recent login time. | Targeting | Expires when the browser is closed |
| lastExternalReferrerTime | This cookie is set by Meta and collects user data to detect how you reached the Website by registering your last URL-address. | Analytical or performance | Expires when the browser is closed |
| _ga_#
| This cookie is set by Google as part of the Google Analytics tool. It collects non-identifiable data from you by assigning you a random identifier (such as a number). The data is reported to us to understand user experience and improve our Website. We will not (and will not allow any third party) to use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our Website. We will not associate any data gathered from our Website with any personally identifying information from any source and Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. | Analytical or performance | Up to 6 months |
| _fbp | This cookie is set by Facebook and collects user data relating to your behaviour to personalise advertising on it when you are visiting Facebook. | Analytical or performance Targeting | Up to 90 days |
| fr | This cookie is set by Facebook and collects your data relating to your behaviour to personalise advertising on it when you are visiting Facebook. | Targeting | Up to 90 days |
| NID | This cookie is set by Google as part of the Google Analytics tool. It collects data relating to your preferences to personalise advertising and your user experience. This cookie can also collect information from users when they are signed out of a Google account. We will not (and will not allow any third party) to use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our Website. We will not associate any data gathered from our Website with any personally identifying information from any source and Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. | Functionality | Up to 6 months |
| Stripe_m | This cookie is placed when you visit the Website. It collects data relating to your behaviour and this data is passed to Stripe for the purposes of personalising and improving their service. | Analytical or performance | Up to 1 year |
Choices About Cookies
You can choose which analytical, 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.
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.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire at the end of the relevant period shown in the tables above.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at [email protected].
Last updated: April 2025