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 |