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Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Policy

The Inn’s privacy policy can be 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

_ga

Google Analytics. This helps us count how many people visit lincolnsinn.org.uk by tracking if you’ve visited before.

2 years

_gat_UA-18061839-1

Google Analytics. Used to throttle request rate.

1 min

_gid

Google Analytics. Used to distinguish users.

24 hours

PHPSESSID

PHP. Enables the website to store serialised state data. It is used to establish a user session and to pass state data. No personal information is saved on this cookie.

When your browser is closed

pc_user

Benchers’ Area. Used to keep users logged in. No personal information is stored.

1 hour

_s

The Shop. Used to power Shopify analytics.

30 min

_shopify_fs

The Shop. Used to power Shopify analytics.

2 years

_shopify_s

The Shop. Used to power Shopify analytics.

30 min

_shopify_y

The Shop. Used to power Shopify analytics.

2 years

_y

The Shop. Used to power Shopify analytics.

2 years