Cookies

Our website uses local storage (such as cookies) to provide you with the best possible experience and to allow you to make use of certain functionality (such as being able to shop online). Further information can be found here in our Cookies Policy.

Cookies’ are small text files that are placed on a user’s computer hard drive by a website. There are several types of cookie and the most common are often referred to as ‘session’ cookies. These are used to keep track of information needed by a user as they travel from page to page within a website. These cookies have a short lifetime and expire within a few minutes of the user leaving the site.

IWA uses benign, short lived ‘session’ cookies and ‘first party’ cookies to tell whether a website user has logged-in, where to find details that can be used to pre-fill parts of on-line forms and to personalise the user’s visit to the website. They are necessary for the e-commerce and member log-in parts of the site to work correctly.  By use of the website you are consenting for this use of cookies.

IWA’s website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyse how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for IWA and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

Other types of cookies can be used to track internet activity after the user has left a website. These are either sponsored by organisations external to the website being visited (known as ‘third party’ cookies) or can originate from the website organisation itself (‘first party’ cookies). These usually have a long lifetime with several months being quite common. They are ‘harvested’ and ‘refreshed’ whenever the user visits a page where the same or a similar cookie is being used. These are often used for delivering adverts that are more likely to be relevant to you. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. IWA’s websites (www.waterways.org.uk, www.wrg.org.uk and www.fundbritainswaterways.org.uk) do not use third party cookies, but we do use advertising cookies to:

• Identify that you have visited IWA’s website, so that we can show you relevant information from IWA.
• Provide Google’s advertising network with information on your visit so that Google can present you with adverts that you may be interested in.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. It is also important not to exclude the benign and useful session cookies or first party cookies. If you do decide to refuse the use of cookies, IWA recommends that you choose an option that rejects all third parties.

By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Further information about cookies is available at www.aboutcookies.org

Links to other sites

Our website contains hyperlinks to many other websites. We are not responsible for the content or functionality of any of those external websites (but please let us know if a link is not working by using the ‘Contact us’ link at the top of the page).

If an external website requests personal information from you (e.g. in connection with an order for goods or services), the information you provide will not be covered by IWA’s Privacy Policy. We suggest you read the privacy policy of any website before providing any personal information.

When purchasing goods or services from any of the businesses that our site links to, you will be entering into a contract with them (agreeing to their terms and conditions) and not with IWA.