Last updated: 14 February 2026

Cookies and other similar technologies

This website is operated by Christian Concern. Your privacy is important to us. You can find out more about how we use personal information in our privacy notice (opens on christianconcern.com).

Like many websites, this website uses cookies and similar technologies. These technologies are operated by us or selected third-parties.

Below, you can find out more about these technologies and various ways in which you may be able to control them.

External links: The information on this page only applies to this domain (hopeforournation.org.uk). If you click on a link on this website that takes you to a third-party website or another Christian Concern website, then your use of that site (and any information that is collected from you or about you) is governed by that website’s policies and notices. We are not responsible for the content or information collected on third-party websites.

What cookies and similar technologies are used on this website?

When you visit this website, certain information may be stored locally on your device by webservers operated by us or by selected third-parties.

This information may include cookies and similar technologies. (You can find out more about what cookies and similar local storage technologies are, further down this page).

Currently, only ‘essential’ cookies (or similar local storage technologies) are used on the website. They are classed as essential because we or the service provider(s) that we use deem them to be necessary for the proper functioning of this website.

This means that a limited amount of information (e.g. cookies) may be stored on your device either by us or by our webhosting provider to enable us to deliver the core functionality of this website to you. We consider the use of this information to be necessary for us to provide a basic experience of this website as we intend it to be, and appropriate given what we think you might expect if you choose to visit this website.

For example, a cookie called crumb may be set when you visit this website. This is a session cookie. Session cookies aren’t intended to exist any longer than a particular visit to a website. When you finish your visit to a website and close your browser, session cookies are usually deleted automatically, and they may be deleted sooner than that.

This website is hosted by Squarespace.

It is possible that Squarespace (and services that it uses) may use simple local storage to help optimise or secure the delivery of webpages to you. For example, local storage with key names squarespace-video-player-options and test may be set.

You can read Squarespace’s privacy policy here, and read more about cookies used by Squarespace here.

Certain cookies are set when users log in to our website but since logging in is not a publicly available feature, we do not record those cookies here.

You may be able to use your browser settings (see below) to block the storage and use of this information but if you choose to do this, this website may not function as intended.

What information might be collected about my visit to this website?

When you visit this website we, and the service provider(s) that we use to provide this website, may collect information about you and your visit.

This information may include, for example, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your internet browser type (e.g. Google Chrome), and your device type.

Certain information (such as your IP address) is needed by the webserver to provide the web pages that you have requested. Information such as the browser and the type of device that you are using may be used by us to provide web content to you in the best format.

This and other information (e.g. the date and time of the request, browser type) may be stored in server log files by the hosting platform that we use. It may be used to maintain and improve the security and performance of the web server. The web hosting platform may share this information with us.

This website is hosted by Squarespace.

How can I control the use of cookies and similar technologies on this website?

There are various ways in which you may be able to control the use of cookies and similar technology on this or other websites.

For example, you may be able to use your browser settings to block the use of some or all cookies and local storage technologies. You can find out more about how to adjust your browser settings at www.cookiesandyou.com and other similar sites.

If you choose to block all cookies and similar technologies on this website, you may find that this website does not function as intended.

What are cookies and other local storage technologies?

Cookies

‘Cookies’ are small files that a webserver asks your browser to store on your device.

  • First-party cookies are cookies that are set and used directly by the website that you are visiting. For example, if you visit one of our websites, we might use a cookie to remember your privacy settings.

  • Third-party cookies are cookies that are set and used by a webserver or service different from the website that you are visiting. For example, we might enable you to watch a video from our YouTube channel on our website (e.g. a media clip), and YouTube might use a cookie in the process of providing that video service.

  • Session cookies are cookies that aren’t intended to exist any longer than a particular visit to a website. When you finish your visit to a website and close your browser, session cookies are usually deleted automatically (and they may be deleted sooner than that – e.g. during your visit, or after a certain period of not being used).

  • Persistent cookies are cookies that may remain on your device beyond a particular visit. For example, we may might use a persistent cookie to remember your privacy settings for a certain period of time, so that you don’t have to re-enter them each time that you visit our website. The ‘lifetime’ or ‘expiry date’ of a persistent cookie is usually set by the website that creates it.

You can find out more about cookies at www.cookiesandyou.com and similar sites.

A small number of first- and third-party cookies may be used on this website, including both session and persistent cookies.

Where cookies are used by this website, they are classed as ‘essential’ since we, or the webhosting service that we are using, deem them to be necessary in order to provide the core functionality of the website. You can find out more about this above.

Other local storage

‘Cookies’ are the best-known example of information stored by a webserver on your device but there are other similar technologies that websites can use to store and use information locally. Examples include HTML5 storage (localStorage, sessionStorage), IndexedDB and Web SQL.

Where these technologies are used on this website, they are classed as ‘essential’ since we, or the webhosting service that we are using, deem them to be necessary in order to provide the core functionality of the website. You can find out more about this above.