Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, phone or other device by websites that you visit. Similar technologies, such as tags, pixels, beacons or floodlights, will also be referred to as cookies for the purposes of this Cookies Policy and our Cookie Consent Banner.
Cookies are widely used to make websites work more efficiently for visitors, to personalise content and advertising, to provide social media features, and to provide information to the website owners about site traffic.
Cookies collect information related to the devices and browser you used to access the internet and your browsing history. In some cases, tags are used to transfer data collected by the website owner about your visit to third parties, e.g. Facebook and Google.
Cookies set by Australia for Dolphins Limited, trading as Action for Dolphins (AFD, we, us, our) are called ‘first party cookies’. Cookies set by other parties are called ‘third party cookies’. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website or other websites you use.
Please read this Policy carefully, along with our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, to understand how we collect, use and store your personal data, and the conditions that apply when using the Site or the Content.
We use cookies to:
We use the following categories of cookies.
Some of our cookies are session based, which means that they will expire and be deleted when you close your browser, while others are persistent and will remain on your browser or device until either they expire, or you manually delete them from your browser history.
Necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.
Analytics cookies
These cookies help us to understand how visitors engage with the website and our social media. We may use a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics. In addition to reporting site usage statistics, data collected may also be used, together with some of the advertising cookies described, to help show more relevant ads across the web and to measure interactions with the ads we show.
Advertisement cookies
We, and other third parties, use these cookies to make our ads more engaging and valuable to site visitors and on social media. Some common applications of cookies are to select advertising based on what’s relevant to a user, to improve reporting on ad campaign performance and to avoid showing ads the user has already seen. They also enable us to measure the effectiveness of our digital campaigns by letting us know when certain actions have been taken by visitors. Some of these cookies collect information about users’ browsing habits across the internet in order to build a profile of their interests and make advertising relevant to them. We may also use these cookies to find other people with similar interests so that our adverts can be shown to them too.
Functionality cookies
We use a set of cookies that are optional for the website to function. They are usually only set in response to information provided to the website to personalise and optimise your experience.
First party cookies
You can choose to reject or block all or specific types of first party cookies set by virtue of your visit to Action for Dolphins’ website. You can adjust these settings by clicking on the cookie settings button below.
If you reject the use of all or specific types of cookies, you will still be able to visit our websites but some of the functions may not work correctly.
Third party cookies
You can generally control cookies through your browser. The way in which you can refuse cookies through your web browser varies depending on which browser you use. You should visit the browser’s help menu for more guidance. To assist, here are the links on how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers.
Some third parties allow you to control cookies directly through their services. For example, Meta explains how you can control your cookies here.
Some advertising networks offer you an option to opt out of targeted advertising. For more information and instructions, please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance.
Necessary cookies
| Cookie | Cookie type | Description | Expiry |
| __hs_opt_out | First party | This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the visitor to accept cookies again. | 6 months |
| __hs_do_not_track
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First party | This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot | 6 months |
| __hs_initial_opt_in
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First party | This cookie is used to prevent the banner from always displaying when visitors are browsing in strict mode. | 7 days |
| __hs_cookie_cat_pref
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First party | This cookie is used to record the categories a visitor consented to. | 6 months |
| __hs_gpc_banner_dismiss | First party | This cookie is used when the Global Privacy Control banner is dismissed. | 180 days |
| hs_ab_test | First party | This cookie is used to consistently serve visitors the same version of an A/B test page they’ve seen before. | End of the session |
| <id>_key | First party | When visiting a password-protected page, this cookie is set so future visits to the page from the same browser do not require login again. | 14 days |
| hs-membership-csrf | First party | This cookie is used to ensure that content membership logins cannot be forged. | End of the session |
| hs_langswitcher_choice | First party | This cookie is used to save a visitor’s selected language choice when viewing pages in multiple languages. | 2 years |
| _stripe_mid | First party | This cookie is set for fraud prevention and detection by Stripe. | 11 months 30 days |
| _stripe_sid | First party | This cookie is set for fraud prevention and detection by Stripe. | 29 minutes |
| _paypal_storage | First party | This cookie is used by PayPal to store account details | Persistent |
| fundraiseup_cid | First party | This cookie is used to identify a user’s browser. This cookie is necessary for the Fundraise Up platform to function properly and securely by helping us detect and prevent fraud, as well as understand how people interact with your giving experience. | 10 years |
| fundraiseup_session | First party | This cookie is used to identify a user’s session. This cookie is necessary for the platform to function properly and securely by helping us detect and prevent fraud, as well as understand how people interact with your giving experience. | End of session |
| __cfruid | Third party
(Cloudfare) |
This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider, Cloudfare, because of their rate limiting policies. | End of session |
| __cf_bm | Third party
(Cloudfare) |
This cookie is set by HubSpot’s CDN provider, Cloudfare, and is a necessary cookie for bot protection. | 30 minutes |
| m | Third party
(Stripe) |
This cookie tracks a user’s Stripe session. | 1 year 11 months 29 days |
| x-pp-s | Third party
(PayPal) |
This cookie is likely used for maintaining secure sessions and preventing fraudulent activity. | End of session |
Analytics cookies
| Cookie | Cookie type | Description | Expiry |
| __hstc | First party | The main cookie for tracking visitors. | 6 months |
| hubspotutk | First party | This cookie keeps track of a visitor’s identity. It is passed to HubSpot on form submission and used when deduplicating contacts. | 6 months |
| __hssc | First party | This cookie keeps track of sessions. | 30 minutes |
| __hssrc | First party | Whenever HubSpot changes the session cookie, this cookie is also set to determine if the visitor has restarted their browser. | End of the session |
| _ga_1SYT7H6N45 | First party | This cookie is used to persist session state. | 399 days |
| _ga | First party | This cookie records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user (using Google Analytics). | 399 days |
| _ga_# | First party | This cookie is used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions. | 399 days |
| tsrce | Third party
(PayPal) |
This cookie could be used for tracking the source from where the user arrived at PayPal. | 2 days |
| l7_az | Third party
(PayPal) |
This appears to be a system related cookie but its exact function isn’t known. | 30 minutes |
| ts_c | Third party
(PayPal) |
This cookie appears to be associated with timestamp information and tracking user session data. | 2 years 11 months 29 days |
| ts | Third party
(PayPal) |
This cookie appears to be associated with timestamp information and tracking user session data. | 2 years 11 months 29 days |
Advertisement cookies
| Cookie | Cookie type | Description | Expiry |
| NID | Third party
(Google) |
This cookie is used to collect website statistics and track conversion rates and Google ad personalisation | 182 days |
| YSC | Third party
(Youtube) |
This cookie is used by Google in combination with SID to verify Google user account and most recent login time. | End of session |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Third party
(Youtube) |
This cookie tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. | 180 days |
| _fbp | Third party
(Facebook) |
This is a Facebook tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalised advertising. | 89 days |
| fr | Third party
(Facebook) |
This cookie contains a unique browser and user ID, used for targeted advertising. | 89 days |
| paypal-offers–cust | Third party
(PayPal) |
This cookie likely pertains to providing or tracking customised offers or advertisements for the user. | 23 hours 59 minutes |
Functionality cookies
| Cookie | Cookie type | Description | Expiry |
| yt-remote-device-id | Third party
(Youtube) |
This cookie stores a unique ID for the user’s device for YouTube to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. | Persistent |
| yt.innertube::requests | Third party
(Youtube) |
This cookie stores a list of YouTube requests made by the user. | Persistent |
| yt-remote-connected-devices | Third party
(Youtube) |
This cookie stores a list of connected devices for YouTube. | Persistent |
| yt.innertube::nextId | Third party
(Youtube) |
This cookie stores a list of YouTube requests made by the user. | Persistent |
| ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY | Third party
(Youtube) |
This cookie stores the last result entry key used by YouTube. | Persistent |
| LANG | Third party
(PayPal) |
This cookie is likely used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time a user visits the website. | 8 hours 45 minutes |
| enforce_policy | Third party
(PayPal) |
This cookie might be related to enforcing PayPal’s security policies or user preferences. | 11 months, 30 days |
| nsid | Third party
(PayPal) |
This is likely a session identifier, used to manage user sessions on the website. | End of session |
We may update this Policy from time to time without notice to you, so please check it regularly, particularly if you are using our website.
This Cookies Policy was last updated on 26 July 2023.
If you have any questions please contact us in any of the following ways: