Cookie Policy

Last updated: 24th September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how the Sussex Heart Charity uses cookies and similar technologies on our website.

It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more generally how we collect, use and protect personal information.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that websites can place on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit them.

They can be used for a range of purposes, such as making a website work correctly, remembering choices you have made, supporting particular website features and helping website owners understand how their website is being used.

Similar technologies, including scripts, tags and local storage, may perform related functions. In this policy, we use the term cookies to cover these technologies where appropriate.

How we use cookies

We use a limited number of cookies on our website.

Some are necessary for the website or services you request to work properly. Others are optional and are used only where you have allowed them through our cookie preference settings.

We do not use cookies to sell your personal information.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies support the basic operation, security and functionality of our website and the services you choose to use.

They may be used for purposes such as:

• remembering your cookie choices
• maintaining secure website sessions
• supporting security and fraud prevention
• directing website requests correctly between servers
• enabling payment or donation functionality that you choose to use.

These cookies are used where they are necessary to provide the website or a service you have requested and cannot normally be switched off through our cookie preference centre.

You can configure your browser to block cookies, but doing so may prevent some parts of the website from working correctly.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies support additional website features that are not essential to the basic operation of the site.

For example, they may be used to support an email signup form or maintain information required while you interact with a particular feature.

We only allow optional functional cookies where you have agreed to the Functional category in our cookie preferences.

If you reject functional cookies, the main website will continue to work, although some optional features may not operate as intended.

Analytics cookies

With your permission, we use analytics cookies to help us understand how people use our website.

These may tell us things such as:

• how many people visit the website
• which pages are visited
• how visitors move through the website
• approximately how long people spend on particular pages
• the type of device or browser being used
• how visitors arrived at the website.

We use this information to understand how well the website is working and where we may be able to improve it.

We do not use analytics cookies to make decisions about individual visitors or to create profiles for targeted advertising.

Analytics cookies are not loaded unless you allow the Analytics category through our cookie preferences.

Advertising cookies

The Sussex Heart Charity does not currently use website cookies for behavioural or personalised advertising.

If this changes in the future, we will update this policy and our cookie preference settings as appropriate.

Cookies currently used on this website

The cookies currently used on our website include:

The exact cookies used may change as our website and the services connected to it are updated. We periodically review and update this information.

Third-party services

Some parts of our website interact with services provided by other organisations. This may include services used for payments, donations, mailing-list forms, website analytics or other website features.

These services may use cookies where their functionality is required or where you have given the appropriate permission.

Where another organisation processes information for its own purposes, its own privacy and cookie information may also apply.

Managing your cookie choices

When you first visit our website, you can:

• Accept All optional cookies
• Reject All optional cookies
• Manage preferences and choose which categories you wish to allow.

Necessary cookies will remain active where they are required for the website or a service you have requested to operate.

You can change your choices at any time by selecting the Cookie preferences button displayed on our website.

Changing your preferences will affect future use of optional cookies. You can also use your browser settings to view, delete or block cookies already stored on your device.

How long cookies remain on your device

Some cookies last only for your current browsing session and are removed when you close your browser.

Others remain for a defined period so that a preference or function can be remembered when you return.

The table above shows the normal duration of the main cookies currently used on our website. Browser settings and browser-imposed limits may sometimes result in shorter retention periods.

Keeping our cookie use under review

We periodically scan and review the cookies used on our website and check that optional cookies are controlled by our cookie consent settings.

We may update this Cookie Policy where our website, services or use of cookies changes.

The date at the top of this page shows when the policy was most recently updated.

Contact us

If you have any questions about the Sussex Heart Charity’s use of cookies or personal information, please contact us using the details provided in our Privacy Policy.

The Chief Executive is the main contact for privacy and data protection enquiries.