Cookie Policy

Introduction
By using the Crossways Community Church Website (“Crossways Website”), you permit us to collect and use your information from activity on devices you use in accordance with this Cookies Policy and the Privacy Notices for the Crossways Website.

Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Crossways Website, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What Are Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Crossways Websites or a third-party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the Crossways Website more useful to you.

Cookies can be “session” cookies (which last only for the duration of your web or application session and expire when you close your browser or exit the application) or “persistent” (used to remember you when you return to use the Crossways Websites and, as such, will last longer).

How Crossways Community Church Uses Cookies
When you use and access the Crossways Website, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.

We use cookies for the following purposes:
to enable certain functions,
to store your preferences,
to enable marketing delivery and to help evaluate and compile aggregated statistics about user activity.

We use both session and persistent cookies on the Crossways Website, and we use different types of cookies to run the Crossways Website:

Strictly necessary cookies: These enable you to navigate and use all the features in the Crossways Website. We may also use these cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies you cannot use the Crossways Website.

Functionality Cookies: These enable us to remember you have visited the Crossways Website before, preferences you may have indicated and information you have provided to us in order to provide enhanced functionality and personal features.

Performance and Analytical Cookies: This information is used to make sure the Crossways Website can cope with the volume of users, to help us correct errors, and to measure use across the Crossways Website. These cookies help us see if you have visited the Crossways Website before so we can identify the number of unique users we receive. They also help us understand how long you spend on the Crossways Website and from where you are accessing them.

Retargeting or Advertising Cookies: in addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies, for example, Google Analytics, to analyse statistical information from users of the Crossways Website. We might be able to associate such information with other information which we collect from you once we receive it from a third party. These cookies collect information about the pages you visit and also other information about other websites you visit. This information is only collected by reference to the cookie identifier that you are using. For more information visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/.

Third-Party Cookies
We can use third-party service providers to provide site metrics and other analytics services.
This Cookies Policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, third-party cookies, web beacons, or other tracking technologies, which are covered by such third parties” cookies and privacy policies.

Examples of our third-party service providers used by the Crossways Website include:
Google Analytics
Facebook
DoubleClick
Wix
Planning centre
YouTube
Google Maps cookie

Your Choices Regarding Cookies
Most web and mobile device browsers are set to automatically accept cookies by default. However, you can change your browser settings to prevent automatic acceptance of cookies, or to notify you each time a cookie is set. If you would like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all the features on the Crossways Website, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

Find More Information About Cookies
You can learn more about cookies, including information on how to block cookies, on the following third-party websites:
AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/.