Cookie Policy

EVF version Cookie Notice

This cookie notice applies to all websites and mobile applications operated by Effective Ventures Foundation and its associated organisations, including its sponsored projects (“EV Platforms”) unless those projects have specified a different cookie notice. You may access and change your cookie preferences at any time from the site wide cookie banner.

What are cookies?

Effective Ventures Foundation (“EV”, “we” or “us”) uses cookies on the EV Platforms. A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes a unique identifier. Cookies are created when your browser loads a particular website. The website sends information to the browser which then creates a text file. Every time you go back to the same website, the browser retrieves and sends the is file to the website’s server. Find out more about the use of cookies on www.allaboutcookies.org.

We also use other forms of technology (such as pixels and web beacons and, in apps, software development kits (usually referred to as SDKs)) which serve a similar purpose to cookies and which allow us to monitor and improve our Platforms and email communications. When we talk about cookies in this notice, this term includes these similar technologies. If you would like more information about our privacy practices, please consult our Privacy Notice.

Your use of EV Platforms may result in some cookies being stored that are not controlled by us. This may occur when the part of the EV Platform you are visiting makes use of a third party analytics or marketing automation/management tool or includes content displayed from a third party website, for example, YouTube or Facebook. You should review the privacy and cookie policies of these services to find out how these third parties use cookies and whether your cookie data will be transferred to a third country. We’ve set out below which third party cookies we use.

What cookies do we use and what information do they collect?

Required cookies: these cookies are required to enable core functionality. This includes technologies that allow you access to our websites, services, applications, and tools; that are required to identify irregular site behaviour, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security; or that allow you to make use of our functions such as making donations, saved search or similar functions.

The third party cookies that we use in this category are:

Analytics and performance cookies: : these cookies help us improve or optimise the experience we provide. They allow us to measure how visitors interact with EV Platforms and we use this information to improve the user experience and performance of EV Platforms

These cookies are used to collect technical information such as the last visited EV Platform, the number of pages visited, whether or not email communications are opened, which parts of our website or email communication are clicked on and the length of time between clicks.

They may also collect information to provide helpful features and e.g. be used to remember your preferences (such as your language preference), your interests and the presentation of the website (such as the font size).

The third party cookies that we use in this category are:

Who are we and how can you get in touch?

We are the Effective Ventures Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales (no. 1149828). Like most charities, we operate through a company limited by guarantee, the registration number of which is 07962181. Our registered office is at Trajan House, Mill Street, Oxford Oxfordshire, OX2 0DJ. If you have questions in relation to this notice or on how we use your
personal information, please contact us at: info@ev.org