Cookie policy
This The Good Shepherd Parish website is designed to work without cookies, browser storage, tracking pixels or similar technologies.
Draft for parish review. Legal details and operational practices must be confirmed before publication. Draft prepared .
Our cookie-free approach
This website does not set or read cookies. It also does not use local storage, session storage, tracking pixels, advertising tags, analytics identifiers or device fingerprinting. We do not use these technologies to recognise visitors, remember preferences, measure their activity or advertise to them.
The site therefore does not display a cookie banner: there are no on-site cookie choices to make and no optional tracking technologies to accept or reject.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website asks a browser to store. Similar technologies include local or session storage, tracking pixels, tags and identifiers. They can support requested features, remember choices, measure use or track activity. Some last only for a browser session; others remain until they expire or are removed.
Technical logs are not cookies
Like most websites, our hosting and security infrastructure may create server logs when a page is requested. A log may contain an IP address, time, requested page, browser information and an error or security event. These records are held on the server rather than placed in your browser. We use them only to deliver, secure and troubleshoot the website, restrict access to those who need it, and retain them only for an appropriate period. Our privacy policy explains this processing and your rights.
External websites
The website contains ordinary links to services such as maps, donation providers, livestreams and social networks. We do not load those services inside our pages. Your browser contacts the external provider only after you choose to follow its link.
An external website may use cookies or other technologies under its own policy. We do not control those technologies, and this cookie-free statement applies only while you are using this website.
If our technology changes
We review the website when adding a provider or feature. If we propose to use a non-essential cookie or similar technology, we will update this policy and put an appropriate consent mechanism in place before that technology is used. Questions can be sent to parish.ourladyofwalsingham@northamptondiocese.org. The date above shows when this policy was last reviewed.