The Royal College of Organists uses cookies and similar tools on the First Stop! website to improve its performance and enhance your user experience. This policy explains how we do that.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files which a website may put on your computer or mobile device when you first visit a site or page. The cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit. Web beacons or other similar files can also do the same thing. We use the term “cookies” in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.
There are many functions cookies serve. For example, they can help us to remember your preferences, analyse how well our website is performing, or ensure that user functions work properly. Cookies used on First Stop! don’t collect information that identifies you, and will instead collect more general information such as how users arrive at and use our websites, or a user’s general location.
What sort of cookies does First Stop! use?
Generally, our cookies perform up to three different functions:
1. Essential cookies – some cookies are essential for the operation of our website.
2. Performance cookies – we utilise other cookies to analyse how our visitors use our websites and to monitor website performance. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience by customising our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular, which method of linking between pages is most effective, and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages.
3. Functionality cookies – we use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences and to enable the delivery of specific services.
Does anyone else use cookies on the First Stop! website?
We do not allow advertisers or other third parties to place cookies via the First Stop! website. The only exception is that like many companies, we use Google Analytics to help us monitor our website traffic and improve its performance over time so that we can improve the services it provides and its relevance for visitors.
Can a website user block cookies?
As we’ve explained above, cookies help you to get the most out of our websites. By continuing to access our site, you are consenting to our use of cookies. However, if you do wish to disable our cookies then please follow the instructions for your browser at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.
Please remember that if you do choose to disable cookies, you may find that certain sections of our website do not work properly.
More Information
More detail on how businesses use cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.
