Cookies Policy

Law Centres Network Cookie Policy

About Us

The Law Centres Network is the trading name of the Law Centres Federation, a registered charity (no. 1088588) and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (no. 2433492).

We want you to be fully informed about your rights and how the Law Centres Network uses Cookies on the websites and platforms we own and manage. We hope that the following sections will answer any questions you have. If not, you can contact us using the following details:

Telephone: 0203 637 1330

Email: info@lawcentres.org.uk

Address: 1 Lady Hale Gate, Gray's Inn, London WC1X 8BS.

Cookie Policy Overview

This Cookie Policy explains how the Law Centres Network (LCN) handles cookies. This policy applies to the following websites and online platforms that LCN owns and manages.

  • LCN website: When you visit our website and use our web forms

  • Members platform: When personnel from across the Law Centres Network access our internal Members' platform

  • LCN Conference Platform: When you access our online Annual Conference platform.

  • Law for All Campaign website: When you visit the campaign page for the Law Centres 50th Anniversary.

  • SMS Tool: Used by Law Centres to communicate with clients.

Website Cookies

A "cookie" is a file stored on your computer's web browser. The main purpose of a cookie is to track usage, tailor web pages and remember login information.

Cookies don't give us access to your computer, and the information we collect through cookies doesn't include personal information.

How we use cookies

We use cookies to track how and when you access this site. This helps us to analyse the performance of this site. We use the following cookies:

Law Centres Network Website https://www.lawcentres.org.uk/

  • _hjid – a Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.

  • _hjFirstSeen – a Hotjar cookie used to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions.

  • _hjIncludedInPageviewSample – a Hotjar cookie to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.

  • _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress – a Hotjar cookie used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.

  • _hjIncludedInSessionSample - a Hotjar cookie used to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.

  • Lang – a functional cookie used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.

  • CAKEPHP – a cookie used as a cookie controller used for managing other cookies.

  • __utma - This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

  • __utmc - The cookie is set by Google Analytics and is deleted when the user closes the browser. It is used to enable interoperability with urchin.js, which is an older version of Google Analytics and is used in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine new sessions/visits.

  • __utmz - Google Analytics sets this cookie to store the traffic source or campaign by which the visitor reached the site.

  • __utmt - Google Analytics sets this cookie to inhibit request rate.

  • __utmb - Google Analytics sets this cookie, to determine new sessions/visits. __utmb cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. It is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.

LCN Conference Platform https://conference.lawcentres.org.uk/

  • AWSALBCORS - managed by Amazon Web Services and is used for load balancing.

  • AWSALB - a cookie generated by the Application load balancer in the Amazon Web Services. It works slightly different from AWSELB.

Members platform https://members.lawcentres.org.uk/

  • _ga_MDNNSKL5YQ - cookie is installed by Google Analytics.

  • _ga – a Google Analytics cookie used to identify unique users.

  • hjid – a Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.

  • _hjFirstSeen – a Hotjar cookie used to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions.

  • _hjIncludedInPageviewSample – a Hotjar cookie to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit.

  • _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress – a Hotjar cookie used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie.

  • _hjIncludedInSessionSample - a Hotjar cookie used to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.

SMS Tool https://messaging.lawcentres.org.uk/

  • _ga – a Google Analytics cookie used to identify unique users.

  • _gid – a Google Analytics cookie that stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance.

  • _gat_gtag_UA_115415705_1 - Set by Google to distinguish users.

Controlling cookies

You can accept or decline the use of cookies through functionality built into your web browser. If you want to learn more about cookies, or how to control or delete them, please visit www.aboutcookies.org.uk for detailed guidance.