This page contains information on what 'cookies' are, the cookies used by Lobbi.org, how to switch cookies off in your browser, how to specifically disable third party advertising cookies, and some useful links for further reading on the subject. If it does not provide the information you were looking for, or you have any further questions about the use of cookies on Lobbi.org, please email support@tapvote.org.

• What are 'cookies'?

  • 'Cookies' are small text files that are stored by the browser (e.g. Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store such things as user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a "memory" for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately.

• How does Lobbi.org use cookies?

  • A visit to a page on Lobbi.org may generate the following types of cookie:

    Site performance cookies
    Anonymous analytics cookies
    Geotargetting cookies
    Registration cookies

• Site performance cookies

  • This type of cookie remembers your preferences for tools found on Lobbi.org, so you don't have to re-set them each time you visit. For example when setting your local area.

• Anonymous analytics cookies:

  • Every time a user visits our website, web analytics software provided by Google Analytics (Google Privacy Policy) generates an anonymous analytics cookie.

    These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before.

    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 unique users we have, and how often they visit the site.

    Unless you are signed in to Lobbi.org, these cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as username and email address.

• Geotargetting cookies

  • These cookies are used by software which tries to work out what country you are in from information supplied by your browser when it requests a web page. To ensure that the correct country specific information is shown to you.

• Registration cookies

  • When you register with Lobbi.org, we generate cookies that signal whether you are signed in or not.

    Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to particular content. It also allows us to associate any comments you post with your username.

    If you have not selected 'remember me' your registration cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer.

    While you are signed in, we combine information from your registration cookies with analytics cookies, which we could use to identify which pages you have seen on Lobbi.org as an individual,

• Other third party cookies

  • On some pages of the Lobbi.org, third parties may also set their own anonymous cookies, for the purposes of tracking the success of their application, or customising the application for you. Because of how cookies work, Lobbi.org cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by Lobbi.org.

    For example, if you use one of the social network login or account linking buttons such as Login with Google or Login with Twitter on Lobbi.org, the social network service will set it's own cookies. Similarly our payments and card authentication provider Stripe (Stripe Privacy Policy ) will place cookies to enable it's services to identify you, and verify to us, that you are the authenticated card user for example.

    Third party service partners who may set cookies on certain areas of this site:
    
    Amazon Web Services (Stripe Privacy Policy)
    Stripe (Stripe Privacy Policy)
    Google (Google Privacy Policy)
    Twitter (Twitter Privacy Policy)
    Facebook (Twitter Privacy Policy)
    LinkedIn (LinkedIn Privacy Policy)
    Mailgun (Mailgun Privacy Policy)

• 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. For example, we cannot tell if you are signed in without using cookies, so you would not be able to post comments.

    All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. In order to understand these setttings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the 'Help' option in your browser for more details.

    Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
    Cookie settings in Firefox
    Cookie settings in Chrome
    Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS.

    If you are primarily concerned about third party cookies generated by advertisers, you can turn these off by going to the Your Online Choices site.

    You can also visit the trade body representing these advertising platforms for more information: Network Advertising Initative.

    They have provided a one-stop place that gathers all of the opt-out controls. Please bear in mind that the are many more networks listed on this site than those that we use at Lobbi.org.
    http://networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

• Useful links

  • If you would like to find out more about cookies and their use on the Internet, you may find the following links useful:
    
    All About Cookies

    The IAB has provided the following website to give information specifically about privacy issues around Internet advertising:
    youronlinechoices.co.uk/uk

    For further legal information about privacy issues, you may find these links useful:

    Data Protection Act 1998
    The Information Commissioner's Office

    If you would like to contact us about cookies please email us at support@tapvote.org.