Cookie Information

How and why the Adoption UK website uses cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile when you browse websites. The Adoption UK website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. They are not, and can not, be used to identify you personally. Your privacy is respected at all times.

We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website:

To determine whether users are logged in to our site - preventing users from having to re-enter details for every page they load and enabling members to view member-only areas of the site
Remembering items placed in the shopping basket of our online shop and ensuring the check-out facility for online payments works effectively
Enabling logged-in users to post content on our blogs and message boards

We use cookies to monitor the performance of our website and to make improvements:

We use Google Analytics tracking code on our website. This enable us to (anonymously) monitor the number of visitors to our site as well as the volume and patterns of usage. This enables us to improve our website to ensure it runs as effectively as possible, and to identify areas for development
For further information on Google Analytics’ use of cookies, please visit the Google website

We do not use cookies to:

Collect any personal and identifiable information (without your expressed permission)
Pass data to advertising networks
Pass date to third parties

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