About cookies

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small set of information that a website may store on your computer for a variety of reasons. Websites create and use cookies but rely on your browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc) to manage them. 

We only use cookies that allow the Mouritz website to work properly, to store your preferences, or to monitor how the website is working.

Key points

• We aim to comply fully with the requirements of legislation governing the use of cookies.
• Usage data for monitoring the website is anonymised: we do not track individuals
• We do not share our usage data with third parties
• We do not use third-party or marketing cookies 

What can cookies be used for?

Cookies can be used for four main purposes:

• "Essential" or "Strictly necessary" cookies — These are cookies required for a website to work properly in response to your actions or preferences.
  Because they are essential, we do not need your explicit consent to use them, although we must tell you about them.
• Preferences cookies — These allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past. For example, when we ask if you want to store cookies, your preferences are themselves stored in a cookie. (But note: this is also an essential cookie).
• Analytics or performance cookies — These collect information about how a website is used, such as  which pages are visited, which links are clicked on.
  Mouritz uses Google Analytics for the sole purpose of improving website functions. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and anonymised and fed back to us as usage reports.  The information collected is not accessible to anyone else. Google is our "data processor" i.e. it processes the information on our behalf and has no rights to process it independently. And we do not use Google Analytics Advertising features.
• Marketing cookies — These cookies track your online activity to help advertisers. Mouritz does not use Marketing cookies.

Managing cookies

You can decide what cookies to allow on the Mouritz website by stating your cookie preferences. Your preferences are stored (using cookies) so we don't have to keep asking.  You can change your preferences at any time. We periodically ask you to reconfirm your preferences or if you have deleted your preference cookie.

Note that if you withdraw consent that you previously gave, we do not delete the cookies that were set previously. You can do this via your browser if you want to.

N.B. As the Mouritz Shop runs on a different software platform from the rest of the mouritz.org website, using different  cookies, you may be asked separately for the cookie preferences relating to that part of the website. Apologies for any inconvenience.

You can also control cookies globally via browser settings (i.e. in Firefox, Safari, Edge, Chrome, Internet Explorer or whatever software you use to explore the world-wide web). But if you turn them off globally, this website and many others may not work as you want. You'll certainly be asked each time you visit the Mouritz website whether you will accept cookies, as the cookie that would normally store your preference will not exist.  

Browsers also offer options to review what cookies are currently set for individual websites, and to delete some or all of them.

As browsers are constantly being updated, third-party information about them often lags behind the current state of play and can be misleading. So we recommend that, if you want to know what your browser cookie control options are, you search the help pages of your preferred browser for the latest information.  For up-to-date information, you are recommended to focus on the official help of the browser and ignore anything from the "community" for the browser. For example, in Firefox you would restrict your search results to "Help Articles Only".

The cookies we might use

(Whether these cookies are used will depend partly on which parts of the site you visit and partly on what cookie preferences you set).