Cookie Policy
I. INTRODUCTION:
1. This website, www.amaragiving.com (referred to as the “Website”) uses cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and other web technologies such as CAPTCHA’s to improve the Website’s performance, to enhance your browsing experience and to protect the Website against spam robots. Certain areas of the Website also use cookies to understand more about you, so we can offer you more personalized and enhanced browsing experience. We use a simple counter, without storing any information on your device, to count the number of visitors who accept or decline our cookies.
2. You can find out more about cookies and how to manage them in the information below. You can change your cookie settings and disable some or all cookies for the website by changing your browser settings so that
cookies cannot be placed on your device.
3. If you have any questions in relation to the cookies, please Contact Us via email at info@amaragiving.com
II. WHAT ARE WEB BEACONS?
4. Amara Giving may advertise on third-party websites either using our organisation’s or a brand name. As part of our effort to track the success of our advertising campaigns, we may at times use ‘visitor identification’ technology, such as “web beacons” or “action tags”, which count visitors who have accessed the Website after being exposed to an Amara Giving banner ad on a third-party site. We do not use this technology to access your personal information and it is only used to compile aggregated statistics, to gauge the effectiveness of our ads.
III. WHAT IS A COOKIE?
5. A ‘cookie’ is a technology that allows a website to store tokens of information (an ‘identifier’) in your browser while you are on the website. Cookies are then sent to the website on each subsequent visit, or to another webpage that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are used in order to make the website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.
6. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving and enhancing the user experience. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited the website before or whether you are a new visitor. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. These ads may either be on the basis of your previous visits to the website or alternatively, based on cookies in your browser.
7. When you visit the Website, you are given the opportunity to: (i) accept all cookies used on the Website; (ii) accept certain categories of cookies and decline others; or (iii) decline all cookies. If you have accepted our use of some or all cookies, the information related to those cookies alone are collected and used by the Website. Please note that your consent to accept or to decline cookies is limited to the Website and not to any other pages which may be hyperlinked to our Website. For more information on cookies used by those websites, please refer to the specific privacy notice or cookie policy on those websites. If you have any questions, please Contact Us.
IV. CATEGORIES OF COOKIES:
8. There are two broad categories of cookies:
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First party cookies, served directly by us to your device.
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Third-party cookies, which are served to us by a third party on your behalf.
9. Cookies can remain on your digital device for different periods of time. Some cookies are ‘session cookies’, which means that they exist only while your browser is open. These are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are ‘permanent cookies’, which means that they survive even after your browser is closed. These ‘permanent cookies’ can be used by the Website to recognize your digital device when you reopen your browser and browse the Internet again.
V. COOKIES THAT WE USE:
10. Our Website uses cookies that broadly perform the following four functions:
Essential / strictly necessary cookies, which are essential for the functioning of the Website and your use thereof;
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Performance cookies, which help us measure the Website’s performance and improve your experience. In using performance cookies, we do not store any personal data and only use the information collected through these cookies in aggregated and in an anonymised form;
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Functional cookies, which allow us to enhance your user experience (for example by remembering any settings you may have selected); and
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Marketing / Targeting cookies, which we use to track user activity and sessions to enable us to deliver a more personalized and enhanced user experience and service. Marketing cookies are set by third parties with whom we execute marketing campaigns. These allow us to provide marketing data relevant to you. If you identify yourself to us (e.g., filling out a form / signing up to receive email updates, etc.), Amara Giving collects this information and uses the data to aid appropriate marketing communications to be sent to you.
11. In addition, we also utilise cookies on certain pages of the Website to communicate with third party data suppliers in order to extrapolate your digital behaviour. This helps us to understand and target more relevant advertising in the future. The information we receive is all aggregated and anonymous, but will include statistics such as demographics, online behaviour, and lifestyle. Targeting and tracking cookies are offered via trusted third-party suppliers. Should you require more information regarding our suppliers and how these cookies operate please do not hesitate to Contact Us.
VI. HOW TO DELETE OR CONTROL COOKIES:
12. At all times, you have the right to choose whether or not to accept cookies. We explain how you can exercise this right below. However, please note that if you choose to refuse cookies, you may not be able to utilise the full
functionality of the Website.
13. You can change your cookie settings at any time by clicking the Customize Cookies button at the top of this policy. [please add this button if not already present]
14. As an alternative, you can block all cookies by activating the relevant setting on your browser (each browser offers a different functionality for this purpose) that allows you to refuse all or some cookies. 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.
15. If you accept some or all cookies on the website, you still have the option of setting your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie so that you may determine whether to accept it or not.
16. Please note that control on this aspect ultimately vests with you, the user.
VII. COOKIES SET IN THE PAST:
17. If you have disabled one or more cookies, we may still use information collected from cookies prior to your ‘disabled’ preference being set; however, from the moment that your settings are updated, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information.
VIII. AMENDMENTS TO COOKIE POLICY:
18. We will occasionally update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. When we post changes to this cookie policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, and / or share information held in cookies, we will notify you by prominently posting notice of the changes on the Website. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this cookie policy or any of our other policies.
IX. CONTACT US:
If you have any questions or concerns about the cookie policy, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@amaragiving.com
Last updated on: April 2025