Reviewed: August 2018
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by websites you visit.
They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently for visitors, and to provide information to the owners of the site. Some of the cookies we use are essential in order for parts of the website to operate. In the table below we have given a description and purpose for each cookie we use.
How do we use cookies on the website?
We use cookies on the website for our own internal purposes, to track how users navigate through the website. This helps us to evaluate and improve the Macmillan website and our online services.
We use information derived from cookies in order to:
- compile statistics on how our website is being used, which can help us to improve our website and online services.
- facilitate users' ability to navigate through the website.
- ascertain whether the website is operating effectively.
- personalise and improve the service we offer you by understanding your preferences and establishing which areas of the website are most relevant to you.
We also use cookie technology with our online registration forms to ensure we maintain your confidentiality and security as you move through secure or password protected areas of the our websites.
Third party cookies
We also use third party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisement about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
Managing cookies
In your web browser you can control which types of cookies you allow. You can turn cookies on or off using your browser's settings. You can also delete cookies and clear your browser's cache (history).
See the following links describing how to do this on some popular browsers:
Our cookies
Below is a list of the main cookies we use across our websites. If you would like more information please contact our web team on webmanager@macmillan.org.uk
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for our websites to function and therefore cannot be switched off. They are only set in response to actions made by you such as setting your privacy preferences, logging into our sites and/or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block these cookies, however this will inevitably mean that some parts of our sites will not work.
Cookies used
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not function properly.
Cookies used
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Categories
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Cookies (Lifespan)
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community.macmillan.org.uk
Macmillan Online Community
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- Telligent.Evolution-UI (Session)
- .te.dpr (Session)
- AuthorizationCookie (Session)
- _parsely_session (< 1 days)
- ThreadFilter (Session)
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shop.macmillan.org.uk
Macmillan Shop
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- CART (Session)
- eid (1824 days)
- welcome_code (Session)
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be.macmillan.org.uk
be.Macmillan
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- contrast (Session)
- ManufacturerFilterID (364 days)
- DistributorFilterID (364 days)
- SectionFilterID (364 days)
- SkinID (364 days)
- CategoryFilterID (364 days)
- GenreFilterID (364 days)
- LastViewedEntityInstanceName (< 1 days)
- LastViewedEntityName (2914807 days)
- ProductTypeFilterID (2914807 days)
- VectorFilterID (2914807 days)
- LastViewedEntityInstanceID (2914807 days)
- BeMacmillan (2914807 days)
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learnzone.macmillan.org.uk
Macmillan Learn Zone
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think.macmillan.org.uk
Think. Improve. Change.
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- lightstep_guid/medium-web (6 days)
- lightstep_session_id (6 days)
- tz (6 days)
- sz (6 days)
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pixel.parsely.com
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- pid (364 days)
- _parsely_visitor (395 days)
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jobs.macmillan.org.uk
Macmillan Job Vacancies
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- earcusession (6 days)
- skin (2914807 days)
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medium.com
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- uid (364 days)
- __cfduid (364 days)
- sid (364 days)
- __cfruid (Session)
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macmillan.soutron.net
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- .ASPXANONYMOUS (69 days)
- ASP.NET_SessionId (Session)
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vimeo.com
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promisejs.org
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t.trackedlink.net
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Performance Cookies
These cookies allow us to count web site visits and traffic sources so we can both measure and improve the performance of our sites as well as that of our digital advertising campaigns. They help us to know which pages (including those which provide information the support we provide to cancer patients and their families) are the most and least popular, see how visitors move around the site and measure the impact of our digital adverts. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited (or how you have reached) our sites -this means that we will not be able to monitor site/digital advertising campaign performance as accurately.
Cookies used
Targeting Cookies
"Targeting Cookies" are used by our advertising partners (eg. Facebook) to collect information about how you use our website (including visits to our cancer information pages) and show you associated adverts on other sites. The information that’s been used to build that profile may also be used to find other people with similar interests to yours so that our adverts can be shown to them too. No directly identifiable personal information is shared with our advertising partners eg. details such as your email address), but information that uniquely identifies your browser and internet device will be shared. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
Cookies used
Unclassified Cookies
These are cookies that we are in the process of classifying.
Cookies used
