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Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Policy

The Inn’s privacy policy is located at https://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/policies/

Cookie Policy

How Lincoln’s Inn uses cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information sent to your web browser by a website you visit. They collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. Further information about the use of cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org

We use two types of cookies on our website.

Session cookies (also called process cookies) help make the website work and deliver services that the website visitor expects, like navigating around web pages or accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website will not function properly.

Analytics cookies are used by Google Analytics to help us understand how you engage with our website. We use Google Analytics to record what pages you view within our site, how you arrived at our site and some basic information about your computer. All of that information is anonymous – so we don’t know who you are; just that somebody visited our site. The information we collect from analytics helps us understand what parts of our sites are doing well and we use this information to make our website better. You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Users may choose not to accept cookies and visit the site anonymously or refuse consent to the provision of personal information; however such refusals may prevent you from engaging in certain activities on the website.

Cookies on our website

These are the cookies set commonly on our website:

Cookie Name

Purpose

Expires

wordpress_*

Necessary cookies for WordPress authentication and session management.

Session (expires on logout)

wordpress_logged_in_*

Indicates if a user is logged into WordPress.

Session (expires on logout)

Recite.Preferences

Stores user preferences for the Recite accessibility tool.

365 days

Recite.Persist

Used to maintain Recite accessibility settings.

365 days

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

A YouTube cookie that measures bandwidth to determine video player performance.

~6 months

VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA

A YouTube cookie storing user privacy preferences.

~6 months

YSC

A session-based YouTube cookie that tracks video views.

Session (expires when browser closes)

__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN

A YouTube security-related cookie for feature rollout.

~6 months

_ga

Google Analytics cookie used to distinguish users.

~2 years

_ga_Q5Y46KQF

A Google Analytics cookie related to tracking.

~2 years

CookieControl

Stores user cookie consent preferences.

Persistent