Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how the Friends of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Charity uses cookies through our website – www.       This policy is to be read alongside the Friends Privacy Statement which explains how the Friends use personal data. If you do not accept our use of cookies, please disable them following our guidance below.

Session cookies are created temporarily when you visit a website, for example to remember your information entered in a form when navigating to a different page. They do not contain any personal information about you and are deleted when you leave the site.

Persistent cookies (also called a stored or permanent cookie) are used to collect information such as web surfing behaviour or preferences for a specific website. These cookies are not deleted when you leave the site but expire after a set period.

These describe whether the cookies are issued by the website that you are currently visiting (first party) or by a different site (third party).

You can find out more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org

You can control whether to accept or refuse cookies and to delete cookies that have already been set. Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default. However, most browsers let you turn off either all or third-party cookies. What you can do depends on the browser you are using. If you do not accept our use of cookies as set out above, please do not accept our cookie notice and set your browser to reject cookies. However, please be aware that this may impair or limit your ability to use our website. The option to do this is usually found in the options, settings or preferences menu of your browser or mobile device. Please refer to your web browser vendor’s website for more information.

We may update our use of cookies from time to time and consequently we may update this notice. We recommend therefore that you read this notice regularly.