Hope for Men

Cookie Policy

Last updated: 28 March, 2024

Topics

Introduction
What are cookies?
How do we use cookies?
What types of cookies do we use?
1. Strictly Necessary cookies:
2. We don’t use third-party cookies:
Cookies that have been set in the past
How to manage cookies
Changes to this Cookie Notice

Introduction

Hope for Men is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. When you visit our website, Hopeformen.org, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

This Cookie Policy includes an overview of cookies that we use on the Hope for Men website. It also provides a list of the specific cookies that we use, a description of why we use them, and an explanation of how to opt-out of the cookie if possible. This Cookie Policy forms part of our Privacy Notice.

Please reach out to us at info@hopeformen.org if you have any questions about our practices, or send us a message via the Contact us page of our site.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a piece of information sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer so that the website can use to gather information. Cookies can help a website recognize repeat users and allow a website to see web usage behavior.

“First party cookies” are placed by a website directly and “third-party cookies” are placed by a third-party with a website’s permission to do so.

If you are interested in cookies and similar technologies, you can learn more on websites like allaboutcookies.org and allaboutcookies.org.uk

How do we use cookies?

Hope for Men uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including keeping you signed in and to ensure your privacy. For example, we use them to detect when someone might be trying to hack your Hope for Men account or spam the Hope for Men community.

What types of cookies do we use?

There are several different types of cookies. These include strictly necessary, analytics, personalization, and marketing. However, our website uses only first-party strictly necessary cookies at this time. This means we do not share any personal details or cookies with third parties, such as advertisers or marketing.

Strictly Necessary cookies:

These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site, and expire in 2 hours. Because basic functions of our website would not work without these cookies, they do not require your consent. This complies with GDPR. You can visit their site at: GDPR.

They include, for example:

the “sessionid” cookie: this cookie enables our website to see you as a single visitor as you move from one page to another and to log securely into the website;
the “csrftoken” cookie: this cookie protects against hackers submitting unauthorized data to our server through your account using Cross website Request Forgery techniques.

We don’t use third-party cookies:

While we don’t use third-party cookies, we do use Calendly to book online meetings, and Zoom to conduct online meetings and the online Support Group sessions. You can individually accept or decline them when you book an appointment with us or join a meeting or online Support Group session.

To learn more about the cookies they use, visit Zoom’s Cookie Statement and Calendly’s FAQs

Cookies that have been set in the past

Because we only use strictly necessary cookies that expire after two hours, there are no cookies that have been set in the past.

How to manage cookies

Except for strictly necessary cookies, you can set your browser not to accept cookies. and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser.

The following links explain how to access cookie settings in various browsers:

Changes to this Cookie Notice

We may change our use of cookies in the future to include third-party service providers who place cookies on this website, such as marketing, and amend this Cookie Notice at any time by posting the amended version on the website as your notification of these changes. If applicable laws require additional notice or consent, we will amend our cookie consent notice to reflect these changes.
We may update this Cookie Notice periodically to account for changes in our collection and/or processing of personal data, and will post the updated Privacy Notice on our website, with a “Last Updated” date at the top. If we make material changes to this Cookie Notice, we will notify you and provide you an opportunity to review before you choose to continue using our products and services.

Updated: 10 February, 2024

Created: 05 November, 2023