Terms, privacy and cookies

Copyright notice

All material appearing on this website is Copyright © The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, and its respective authors unless otherwise stated. Material must not be copied or distributed without prior written permission. Please contact us with any enquiries.

Data protection

Please refer to the College's main data protection policies for more information.

Privacy

Like most websites, our web server automatically records certain information when you visit; this includes your computer’s IP address, the time, the page requested and information about your browser and operating system. This information is stored securely on our systems and is used to troubleshoot potential issues and monitor access to the web server.

This website uses Google Analytics which provides us with statistical information about how people use our website; for example the pages visited, the length of time spent on each page, whether visitors are new or returning and what site referred the visitor to our website. We use this information to help improve our website. Your IP address is anonymised before data is sent.

The website also uses Google Analytics demographics and interests reporting. This means that Google Analytics records information about your demographics and interests, by interacting with Google advertising cookies which have already been set. We use this information to identify our key audiences and help improve our website, content and communications.

It is possible to opt out of Google Analytics.

Cookies

This site uses cookies, and the cookies from Google Analytics have already been set. If you do not agree to this site setting cookies on your computer then please exit the site and remove any cookies that may already have been set: How to delete cookies (aboutcookies.org).

Cookies set by this website

Google analytics sets the following cookies:

_ga is used to determine the current visitor session
Expires: 2 years after being set

_gat is used to throttle request rate
Expires: 10 minutes after being set

More information about these cookies is available on the Google Analytics website.

Our website also sets the following cookies to enhance the user experience:

has_js stores whether your browser supports JavaScript, to enhance the website's user experience.
Expires: End of session

Cookies set by other services

This website uses third party services to provide a more interactive and engaging experience.

Crazy Egg

This website uses the Crazy Egg service to gather information on how the website is used; including which links and buttons are being clicked on. This data is gathered into heat maps, which provide useful information to help us improve the usability of the website.

This service sets the __cfduid cookie from the crazyegg.com domain, which expires 1 year after being set.

For more information, including how to opt-out of Crazy Egg tracking, please see the Crazy Egg opt-out page.

YouTube

Visiting a page on this website with a YouTube video on will set a number of cookies on your computer, which are set by the youtube.com domain. These cookies include: APISID, GEUP, HSID, LOGIN_INFO, PREF, SAPISID, SID, SSID, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC.  Please refer to Google's Privacy Policy for more information about these cookies.

reCAPTCHA

The contact form on this website uses Google's reCAPTCHA service to reduce spam submissions. This page will use additional cookies and storage set by the google.com domain. The reCAPTCHA window on the contact form contains links to find out more about Google's privacy policy and terms.

ShareThis

This website uses the ShareThis service to allow you to quickly and easily share a page to your social media accounts. ShareThis set a number of cookies to provide this functionality, including: __stid (expires after 1 year) and __uset (expires after 10 days). Please refer to the ShareThis privacy policy for further information.

Facebook

Pages on this website may contain embedded Facebook videos. Visiting one of these pages will set cookies on your computer for domains ending facebook.com. These embedded videos are therefore aware of whether you are logged-in to Facebook in the current browsing session. For more information please refer to Facebook's cookie policy.

Other

Other media embeds may be present across the site, including Google maps and other services. Each of these services may set additional cookies on your computer and you should refer to the privacy policies of each provider to find out more about their use of cookies.