Cookie policy

We use a small amount of strictly necessary storage to make the site work. This includes remembering your cookie choice so the banner is not shown on every visit, keeping your session working while you move between pages, and protecting forms against spam and abuse.

Your cookie choice is stored in your browser's local storage as a versioned, timestamped record, so this browser knows which choice applies. It stays until you clear your browser data, change your preference, or we publish a new version of our analytics arrangements. This storage cannot be switched off, because the site relies on it and it is not used for tracking.

This is the essential cookie and browser storage currently in use on this site. All of it is strictly necessary; nothing listed here is used for advertising or cross-site tracking. Optional Google Analytics cookies, which are only set if you accept analytics, are listed separately below.

Other organisations’ services, such as the jobs board on its own domain, set their own cookies under their own notices.

Our website hosting platform includes built-in visitor statistics, and this reporting is currently active. It starts automatically on published sites and gives us aggregate figures such as pages viewed, referring source, device category, a broad country indication derived from your browser time zone, and counts and duration of visits.

The hosting provider's documentation states that this measures overall traffic, does not build individual visitor profiles and does not follow visitors across separate visits. It is platform-level reporting we do not configure per visitor, and it is separate from the optional analytics controlled by the “Accept all” and “Reject all” buttons on the cookie banner.

We use Google Analytics to understand, in aggregate, how people find and use this site — which pages are viewed, how long visits last and where visitors arrive from. It runs only if you choose “Accept all” on the cookie banner. If you reject analytics, or have not made a choice yet, the Google Analytics script is never loaded and no analytics cookies are set.

We use Google Analytics 4, which does not store your full IP address. We do not use it for advertising or to build individual profiles, and the figures we see are aggregate numbers. Google processes the data under its own privacy policy.

If you change your mind and withdraw analytics, Google Analytics is switched off from that point on, but cookies already set remain in your browser until you clear your browser data or they expire. Introducing this provider resets any preference you had already saved, so the cookie control appears again asking for a fresh choice.

• Use Cookie settings here or in the site footer to reopen the control and change your decision at any time.
• Rejecting or withdrawing consent stops any non-essential cookies being set from that point on; essential storage remains so the site keeps working.
• Clearing cookies and site data in your browser also resets your choice, and the banner will appear again on your next visit.
• Most browsers let you block cookies entirely, though some features may then break.

Our job board, event registration and any embedded content are provided by other organisations on their own domains. This policy does not cover them: once you follow a link to those services, their own cookie and privacy notices apply and you may need to set your preferences again there.

For anything not covered here, see our privacy notice or email hello@charityjobsni.com.