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Stemette Futures work alongside nonprofit Stemettes to inspire, support and encourage girls, young women and non-binary young people into technical fields. Across our programmes, events and platforms we’re showing that STEAM is for all, in a free, fun-filled & food-filled way.

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Cookie Policy

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are a standard feature of websites that allow us to store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to our website. They help us learn which areas of our website are useful and which areas need improvement.

You can choose whether to accept the use of cookies and similar technologies in general by changing the settings on your browser, or by submitting your preferences via the pop-up on our website. However, if you disable cookies and similar technologies, your experience on our website may be diminished and some features may not work as intended.

 

What Cookies and Similar Technologies Do We Use?

Below we list the different types of cookies and similar technologies that are used on our website.

  • Essential: Enable you to navigate our website and to use its services and features. Without these necessary cookies, our website will not perform as smoothly for you as we would like it to and we may not be able to provide our website or certain services or features.
  • Preference: Collect information about your choices and preferences and allow us to remember language or other local settings and customise our website accordingly.   
  • Analytics: Collect information about your use of our website and enable us to improve the way it works. For example, Analytics Cookies show us which are the most frequently visited pages on our website, help us record any difficulties you have with our website, and show us whether our advertising is effective or not. This allows us to see the overall patterns of usage on our website, rather than the usage of a single person. We use the information to analyse website traffic, but we do not examine this information for individually identifying information. 
  • Advertising: These are set to display targeted promotions or advertisements based on your interests on our website or to manage our advertising. These cookies collect information about your activities on our website and other sites to provide you with targeted advertising.  

We also use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyse information about the use of the Services and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps, and online resources.  You can learn about Google’s practices by going to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt-out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.  

Cookie name Type of cookie Description of purpose Persistent or session cookie?  When do persistent cookies expire? First party (set by the site being visited) or third party (across different sites)?  
local_storage_support_test HTML, Essential Local storage function on the website, which allows the web to load faster. Persistent Twitter
PYPF HTTP, Essential PayPal login function on the website. 27 days PayPal objects
lang HTTP, Preference Remembers the user language version of the website. Session CDN Syndication (Twitter as provider)
_ga HTTP, Analytics Registers unique ID and creates statistics on how the user engages with the website. 2 years Stemettes
_gat HTTP, Analytics Google Analytics. 1 day Stemettes
_gid HTTP, Analytics Registers unique ID and creates statistics on how the user engages with the website. 1 day Stemettes
collect HTTP, Analytics Sends data to Google Analytics. Session Google Analytics
_widgetsettings HTML, Advertising Unclassified. Persistent Twitter
01A1 HTTP, Advertising Collects technical information about the user’s browser, IP address, operating system and screen resolution. 1 year Abmr.net
GPS HTTP, Advertising Registers a unique ID on mobiles to enable GPS tracking. 1 day YouTube
i/jot Pixel, Advertising Registers unique ID for the visitor.   Twitter
i/jot/syndication Pixel. Advertising Unclassified. Session Twitter
IDE HTTP, Advertising Registers and reports user actions after viewing the advert. 1 year  Stemettes
r/collect Pixel, Advertising Send data to Google Analytics about visitor’s devices and behaviour. It tracks the victors across devices and marketing channels. Session Doubleclick.net via Google Analytics
test_cookie HTTP, Advertising Check if the user’s browser supports cookies. 1 day Doubleclick.net
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE HTTP, Advertising Estimates user bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. 179 days YouTube
YSC HTTP, Advertising Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what YouTube videos the user has seen. Session YouTube
yt-remote-cast-installed HTTP, Advertising Stores user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. 179 days YouTube
yt-connected-devices HTML, Advertising Stores user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. Persistent YouTube
yt-remote-device-id HTML, Advertising Stores user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. Persistent YouTube
yt-remote-fate-check-period HTML, Advertising Stores user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. Session YouTube
yt-remote-session-app HTML, Advertising Stores user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. Session YouTube
yt-remote-session-name HTML, Advertising Stores user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. Session YouTube
_iub_cs-90757315 HTTP, Unclassified Unclassified. 1 year Stemettes

How Do I Manage Cookies and Similar Technologies?

You can change your settings for cookies and similar technologies by using the cookie banner on our website.

In addition, you can refuse or accept cookies from our website at any time by activating the settings on your browser. Information about the procedure to follow to enable or disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider’s website via your help screen. Please refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on commonly used browsers. Please be aware that if cookies are disabled, not all features of our website may operate as intended.

You can delete cookies that have already been placed on your device by following these instructions:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website. Please be aware that if cookies are disabled, not all features of our website may operate as intended. Please contact us at team@stemettes.org if you have any questions or concerns.

If you want to clear all cookies left behind by the websites you have visited, here are links where you can download three programs that clean out tracking cookies:

This policy was last updated on 23/06/2023.