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The Wellcome Privacy Statement [PDF 276KB] explains how, and on what legal basis, we collect, store, and use personal information about you as:
It also explains how we use personal information in Wellcome Collection for the purpose of archiving in the public interest.
Information on how we collect, store and use personal information in connection with grant-making is set out in our Wellcome Grants Privacy and Confidentiality Statement [PDF 271KB].
Last updated 27th September 2017
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Cookies allow us to recognise and count your visits, and to see how you move around our sites while you are using them. This helps us to provide you with a good experience while you browse and to improve the way our sites work, for example by making sure you can find what you need.
Cookies are also set when you:
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We use Google Analytics, Google Analytics demographics and interest reporting, and integrated services that require Google Analytics to collect data via advertising cookies and identifiers. Google Analytics is a tool that helps website and app owners to understand how their visitors behave. It uses a set of cookies to collect information and report website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. It also uses some cookies set by other websites to help us understand more about our sites’ visitors.
We use web beacons like Facebook Pixel to understand what users of our site do after clicking a link in an email that we’ve sent to a list of subscribers, or clicking on an advert we’ve placed on Facebook. This information helps us to improve the content we make, reach people who are interested in our work with our advertising and social activity, and measure how effective our advertising and newsletters are, without personally identifying individual site visitors, newsletter subscribers or Facebook users.
The following table is a list of the cookies we use, why we use them, and on which of our sites.
| Name | Purpose | Third Party | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| __zlcstore | This cookie is necessary for the chat-box function on the website to function. | Yes | 20 days |
| CookieConsent | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain | No | 1 year |
| has_js | Registers whether or not the user has activated JavaScript in the browser. | No | session |
| ZD-suid | Unique id that identifies the user's session. | No | 20 days |
| __cfduid | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Yes | 1 year |
| __cfruid | This cookie is a part of the services provided by Cloudflare - Including load-balancing, deliverance of website content and serving DNS connection for website operators. | Yes | session |
| __cfduid | Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic. | Yes | 1 year |
| ZD-store | Registers whether the self-service-assistant Zendesk Answer Bot has been displayed to the website user. | No | 20 days |
| collect | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. | Yes | session |
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | No | 2 years |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | No | 1 day |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | No | 1 day |
| _hjid | Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. | No | 1 year |
| _hjid | Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. | No | 20 days |
| hjViewportId | Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes. | No | session |
| ZD-buid | Unique id that identifies the user on recurring visits. | No | 20 days |
| ZD-currentTime | Registers the date and time for the user's latest visit to the website. | No | session |
| AWSALB | Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. | Yes | 6 days |
| 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. | Yes | 1 year |
| test_cookie | Used to check if the user's browser supports cookies. | Yes | 1 day |
| fr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | Yes | 3 months |
| tr | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | Yes | session |
| rc::c | This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. | Yes | session |
| __zlcmid | Preserves users states across page requests. | No | 1 year |
| _fbp | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. | No | 3 months |
| _gaexp | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to determine if the visitor is involved in their marketing experiments. | No | 3 months |
| _hjIncludedInSample | Determines if the user's navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. | No | session |
| GPS | Registers a unique ID on mobile devices to enable tracking based on geographical GPS location. | Yes | 1 day |
| PREF | Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. | Yes | 1 year |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | Yes | 6 months |
| YSC | Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Yes | session |
| yt-remote-cast-installed | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Yes | session |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Yes | 20 days |
| yt-remote-device-id | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Yes | 20 days |
| yt-remote-fast-check-period | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Yes | session |
| yt-remote-session-app | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Yes | session |
| yt-remote-session-name | Stores the user's video player preferences using embedded YouTube video | Yes | session |
| _gaexp_rc | No | 1 day |
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