Our mission is to create brighter futures for children and young people. We do this by providing fostering, residential and support services where children and young people can feel safe and cared for. We support them to make positive relationships which give them the confidence to succeed.
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St Christopher’s is a charity creating brighter futures for children and young people in care. Our vision is for every child and young person to be safe, loved and happy, to achieve their potential and have a bright future.
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All our services have the same goal: to support children and young people to fulfil their potential, grow into independent adults and have happy, successful futures.
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There are many ways you can support St Christopher's work with children and young people. Find out how you can help young people reach their goals.
Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file which may be placed on your computer’s hard drive when you visit a website. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the site owners, such as which pages you find useful or not. A web browser normally deletes session cookies when it quits. A cookie does not give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. Cookies are used on this site to maintain functionality as you move between pages.
Find out how to manage cookies on the Information Commissioner’s Office website.
How we use cookies on stchris.org.uk
Our website uses first party cookies, which allow us to distinguish you from other users of the website. They maintain functionality as you move between pages and help us to improve our site. We also use some widely-used third-party social media plugins, which create cookies, as marketing tools and to improve experience for our visitors.
Understanding how our website is used
Google Analytics (Universal Analytics)
We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use this website (stchris.org.uk). We do this to help make sure the site is meeting your needs and to make improvements based on our findings.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit on stchris.org.uk
- the time you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We don’t collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so we can’t identify who you are.
We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data. You can find an overview of Google’s Privacy Policy here and the Google Code here.
Google Analytics use the following cookies:
Name | Purpose | Expires |
_ga | This helps us count how many people visit our website by tracking if you’ve visited before. | 2 years |
_gid | This helps us count how many people visit our website by tracking if you’ve visited before. | 24 hours |
_gat | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made | 1 minute |
_gat_rollup | Used to manage the rate at which page view requests are made. | 1 minute |
Google Analytics (ga.js) library
Name | Purpose | Expires |
__utma | Like _ga, this lets us know if you’ve visited before, so we can count how many of our visitors are new to our website or to a certain page | 2 years |
__utmb | This works with _utmc to calculate the average length of time you spend on our website | 30 minutes |
__utmc | This works with _utmb to calculate when you close your browser | When you close your browser |
__utmz | This tells us how you reached the website (for example from another website or a search engine) | 6 months |
You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies.
Browser Session
Name | Purpose | Expires |
ASP.NET_SessionId | This cookie is automatically set when you land on the website. It enables functionality between pages and is essential for parts of the site to operate. It is held temporarily and is deleted when you close your web browser. It does not contain personally identifiable information and is anonymous. | When you close your browser |
For more information on this, please visit the Microsoft website.
YouTube
We sometimes use YouTube to embed videos on some pages of the site. YouTube sets cookies when you visit one of these pages to give us information on the number of times a video is viewed and the type of browser used to view it.
For more information visit the YouTube Privacy and Safety Centre
Enabling website functionality
Our cookie banner
You may see a notification when you visit our website to let you know that we are using cookies.
Name | Purpose | Expires |
complianceCookie | Used to prevent the cookie banner from showing repeatedly. | 365 days |
Alert messages
We might display a message on our website to tell you about an important event or situation. We use local storage to help us update alert messages periodically.
Name | Purpose | Expires |
server | Used to store contents of the current global alert and display it if it is switched on. | Does not expire |
server | Used to determine the time of the last check for an updated global alert. | Does not expire |
server | Used to determine whether or not to display the global alert. | Does not expire |
server | Used to store contents of the current global alert and display it if it is toggled on. | Does not expire |
How to manage your cookies
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To find out how to allow, block, delete and manage the cookies on all standard web browsers, go to www.allaboutcookies.org and select the browser and version you are using. You’ll also find information about how to delete cookies from your computer.
If you choose to have your browsers refuse cookies, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of this website.