Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Labour Friends of the Forces uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and protect personal information.
Last updated: 18 August 2026
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites can place on your device when you visit them. They are commonly used to make websites work correctly, remember preferences, provide website functionality and help website operators understand how their websites are used.
Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser, while others may remain on your device for a set period of time.
2. How we use cookies
Labour Friends of the Forces uses cookies and similar technologies to:
- Make our website function correctly and securely
- Enable membership accounts and members-only content
- Remember choices and cookie preferences
- Help protect the website against misuse or security threats
- Understand how visitors use our website through website analytics
- Support third-party services and embedded content used on the website
3. Necessary cookies
Some cookies are necessary for the website to operate properly. These may be used for functions such as website security, account login, session management, remembering cookie preferences and other essential website features.
These cookies may operate without consent where they are necessary to provide a service or functionality requested by the visitor.
Our website is built using WordPress and includes membership functionality. WordPress, our membership system and other essential website services may set cookies where necessary to provide these features.
4. Membership and account cookies
Members are able to log into the website to access content that is available exclusively to members.
When you sign into a membership account, cookies may be used to recognise that you are logged in and to maintain your session while you use the website.
These cookies are necessary to provide account and members-only functionality and may remain active for the duration of your session or for another appropriate period where login details or preferences are remembered.
5. Analytics cookies
We use Google Analytics, connected through Google Site Kit, to help us understand how visitors use our website and how the website is performing.
This may include information such as pages visited, how visitors navigate around the website, the type of device or browser used and general website usage information.
Where consent is required, analytics cookies and similar non-essential technologies will only be activated after you have made the appropriate choice through our cookie consent system.
6. Marketing and advertising cookies
We do not currently use advertising or marketing tracking pixels such as the Meta Facebook Pixel, Google Ads conversion tracking or similar advertising technologies on this website.
If this changes in the future, this Cookie Policy and our cookie consent settings will be updated where appropriate.
7. Mailchimp
We use Mailchimp to manage newsletter subscriptions and send email communications.
If you subscribe to our newsletter using a form on our website, information you provide through that form may be passed to Mailchimp so that your subscription can be managed.
Mailchimp may use technologies associated with its forms, email communications and engagement features in accordance with its own privacy and cookie practices.
8. GoCardless
We use GoCardless to arrange membership Direct Debit payments.
When you continue to GoCardless to arrange a payment, you leave our website and use GoCardless's service. GoCardless may use its own cookies and similar technologies in accordance with its own privacy and cookie information.
Cookies used directly on the GoCardless website are controlled by GoCardless rather than Labour Friends of the Forces.
9. Third-party content and services
Our website may contain content provided by third-party services, including embedded YouTube videos and Facebook content.
When third-party content is loaded, the provider may use cookies or similar technologies or receive information about your interaction with that content.
Where consent is required, this content or the associated non-essential technologies may be prevented from loading until you have made the appropriate choice through our cookie consent system.
Our website may also contain links to external websites. Once you leave our website, the cookies used by those websites are controlled by the relevant third party and are subject to their own privacy and cookie policies.
10. The cookies used on this website
The exact cookies used by our website may change as website features, plugins and third-party services are updated.
We use a cookie consent management system to help identify and manage the cookies and similar technologies used by the website.
The website's cookies will be reviewed periodically and following significant changes to the website or the services we use.
11. Cookie consent
We use Complianz to manage cookie consent on this website.
When you first visit the website, you may be presented with a cookie banner that allows you to make choices about the use of non-essential cookies and similar technologies.
Necessary cookies may still operate where they are required for the website or a service requested by you to function.
Where consent is required, you can choose whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can also review or change your cookie preferences later.
12. Managing cookies in your browser
Most web browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies through the browser's privacy or security settings.
Blocking some cookies may affect how this website or certain features operate, including membership login and other functionality that relies on necessary cookies.
13. Changing your cookie preferences
You can review or change your choices about non-essential cookies at any time using the cookie settings provided on this website.
Changing or withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing that took place before your preferences were changed.
14. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when the technologies, services or cookies used on our website change.
When we make changes, we will update the date shown at the top of this page.
15. Contact us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact:
Labour Friends of the Forces
Email: info@labourforces.org
