Cookie Policy

Use of Cookies on our Site

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.

A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come (www.hawk-conservancy.org), the ‘lifetime’ of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

Two types of cookies are used in various parts of these websites:

Session Cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and
Persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.

Find out more about cookies.

How we use Cookies on our Site and what Information we Collect

Session Cookies

To allow you to carry information across pages of our sites and avoid having to re-enter information.
To allow you to maintain a shopping basket in the shop.
Within registration to allow you to access stored information.

Persistent Cookies

To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our website and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly.
Optionally, to ‘remember’ data entered by you at registration/checkout in the shop
Optionally, to ‘remember’ your login information to the Photographic Competition area.

Third Party Cookies
We are not aware of any third parties serving cookies via these sites.

Use of Web Beacons.
Our Web pages do not contain Web beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs).

Find out more about Web Beacons.

Disabling/Enabling Cookies.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled.

Find out how to disable/enable cookies.

Cookies used

8. Cookies we use on our Platform
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Necessary

Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.

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Functional

Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.

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Performance

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

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Analytics

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

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Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.

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Others

Other uncategorised cookies are those that are being analyzed and have not been classified into a category as yet.

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