Thames Valley Air Ambulance (TVAA) makes use of cookies to function correctly and to provide the best user experience possible for you, the visitor. If you continue to use this site, you are giving consent for the site to use cookies on this device. This method of implied consent is in accordance with the Information Commissioner’s directives.
what are cookies?
A cookie is a small
text marker stored on your computer that enables us to track the use of our website.
When you visit our website we will collect
data from your computer or other device such as a smartphone or tablet using
“cookies”.
Cookies are created by your web browser when
you visit our website. Every time you go back to the website, your browser will
send the cookie file back to the website’s server. They improve your experience
of using our website, for example, by remembering your preference settings so
that you are presented with information likely to be most relevant to you, and
by measuring your use of the website to enable us to continuously improve our
website to ensure that it meets your needs.
Cookies can also be used to show you relevant
TVAA content on social media services such as Facebook – these are known as ‘retargeting’
or ‘advertising’ cookies.
If you visit our website as an anonymous visitor (e.g. you switch off cookies), TVAA may still collect certain information from your browser, such as the IP address (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a computer or other internet device).
Types of cookies
TVAA’s website makes use of the following types of cookies:
Strictly Necessary Cookies – these cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies services you have asked for such as our donation page, cannot be provided.
Performance Cookies – these cookies collect information about how you use our website, for example which pages you most frequently visit, or if you receive error messages. These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. They are only used to improve how our website works.
Functionality Cookies – these cookies remember choices you have made on our website in order to improve your experience. This could include your username, language or the region you are in. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and only apply to your browsing activity on our website.
Targeting Cookies or Advertising Cookies – these cookies collect information about your browsing habits to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.
controlling or deleting cookies
While no sensitive data is stored within these cookies, we do record personal information in the form of an IP address. If you wish to ensure that no cookies are created on your device, you are free to use your web browser’s settings to turn off cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact the functionality of our website.
third-party cookies
Our website may contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by other organisations. These third-party websites have their own privacy policies, including policies on their use of cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit, or which is collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites.
We cannot accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third-party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
current cookies
Please note that, of the list of cookie providers below, some may distribute the cookie information gathered with other third-party websites for the purpose of activity tracking. You can find out more about the policy of each cookie provider on their respective privacy pages.
We use:
COOKIE NAME
USED BY
DESCRIPTION
TYPE OF COOKIE
EXPIRATION
OPT-OUT LINK
_fbp
Facebook
Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real-time bidding from third party advertisers.
Stores the number of visits of a user, the time of their first visit, the previous visit, and the current visit. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.
This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown.
This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in.
This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site.
This cookie is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show.
This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
Set as part of the ShareThis service and monitors “click-stream” activity, e.g. web pages viewed, navigation from page to page, time spent on each page etc. The ShareThis service only identifies a user if they have separately signed up with ShareThis for a ShareThis account and given them consent. Checks how long you stay on a site: when a visit starts and ends. It does not contain any personal information and is used only for analytical purposes.
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This website uses cookies to improve your experience, analyse traffic and serve targeted adverts. By continuing to use this website, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our Cookies Policy. Cookies PolicyAccept Cookies
Privacy & Cookies Policy
Privacy Overview
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies services you have asked for such as our donation page, cannot be provided.
These cookies remember choices you have made on our website in order to improve your experience. This could include your username, language or the region you are in. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and only apply to your browsing activity on our website.
Cookie
Duration
Description
cookielawinfo-checkbox-analytics
1 year
This cookies is set by GDPR Cookie Consent WordPress Plugin. The cookie is used to remember the user consent for the cookies under the category "Analytics".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional
1 year
The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary
1 year
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary
1 year
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non-necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others
1 year
The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance
1 year
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
salt_recent_events
1 month
This cookie monitors which event pages the user has visited, in order to provide them a list of recently visited event pages. This cookie is only used to improve the user's experience of our website.
salt_recent_post
1 month
This cookie monitors which web stories the user has read, in order to provide them a list of recently read stories. This cookie is only used to improve the user's experience of our website.
These cookies collect information about how you use our website, for example which pages you most frequently visit, or if you receive error messages. These cookies don’t collect any information that could identify a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. They are only used to improve how our website works.
Cookie
Duration
Description
_ga
2 years
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gat_gtag_UA_77930033_1
1 minute
This cookie is used by Google Tag Manager to store and track website conversions.
_gid
1 day
This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress
30 minutes
This cookie is used by Hotjar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.
_hjFirstSeen
30 minutes
This is set by Hotjar to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions.
_hjid
1 year
This cookie is set by Hotjar. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample
30 minutes
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether a visitor is included in the data sampling defined by our site's pageview limit.
_hjIncludedInSessionSample
2 minutes
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether a visitor is included in the data sampling defined by the website's daily session limit.
_hjTLDTest
session
This cookie is set by HotJar. When the Hotjar script executes they try to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, HotJar try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
5 months 27 days
This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.
YSC
session
This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.
These cookies collect information about your browsing habits to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.
Cookie
Duration
Description
_fbp
3 months
This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website.
fr
3 months
The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.
IDE
1 year 24 days
Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.
test_cookie
15 minutes
This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.