Cookie Policy

This website uses cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences at any time.

Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored on the user’s device when you visit this website. MHA uses these anonymous cookies to help monitor/analyse website traffic and understand how the website is being interacted with so that we can continuously improve the user’s experience of our website.

We use cookies to:

• Track visitor use of the website and to compile statistical activity using Google Analytics, a service provided by Google Inc. Google automatically collects a partial IP address which ensures you remain anonymous.
• Gather non-personal, demographic and website usage information and if you choose to share any content using the social media buttons on this site.

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Cookies this website may use

Advertising

• Google Ads - holds site-wide performance for www.mha.org.uk which we analyse to determine how MHA's use of digital advertising can be more cost-effective. We use Google Ads to serve adverts to a particular person who has visited a certain MHA webpage. For more information visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Bing Paid Search - holds site-wide performance for www.mha.org.uk which we analyse to determine how MHA's use of digital advertising can be more cost-effective. We use Bing Paid Search to serve adverts to a particular person who has visited a certain MHA webpage. For more information visit: https://privacy.microsoft.com/
• Facebook and Instagram - holds content accessed on www.mha.org.uk which we use to serve personalised content through Facebook advertisements. For more information visit: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
• LinkedIn - holds content accessed on www.mha.org.uk which we use to serve personalised content through LinkedIn advertisements. For more information visit: https://privacy.linkedin.com/
  
• YouTube - tracks viewing of YouTube videos on the website and used by Google in combination with SID to verify your Google user account, if you have one, and your most recent login time to your Google account. This cookie is also used by Google to set each of its users’ preferred language preferences and by Youtube as part of their embedded services on the Websites (sharing etc.). For more information visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies

Website performance

• Google Analytics - holds site-wide performance and anonymous visitor usage data for www.mha.org.uk which we monitor and analyse to understand the performance of www.mha.org.uk. For more information visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Hotjar - holds site-wide performance and anonymous visitor usage data for www.mha.org.uk which we monitor and analyse to understand the performance of www.mha.org.uk. For more information visit: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy/

Location mapping

• Google Maps - holds user browser and preferences which we use for map display optimisation and Google Map usage tracking. For more information visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Social sharing platform

• Share This - holds referral source data which we use to provide reporting data. For more information visit: https://sharethis.com/privacy/

Gaining your consent to use tracking cookies

MHA is required to gain your consent before we store and use any cookies which are not intended to be used solely for the operation of this website. We do this by providing a cookie notice at your initial point of entry to this website where you have the option to manage your cookie usage preferences