What are cookies?

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.

 

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to:

  • Enable effective and secure navigation through our websites
  • Understand your preferences so that we can personalise our service to you (e.g. present you with more relevant content)
  • Monitor, and therefore improve, the effectiveness of our website
  • Compile usage statistics so that we can proactively identify ways in which our website and online services can be improved, (e.g. by understanding which content is most viewed).

 

What types of cookies do we use?

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.

How do I manage my cookie settings?

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.

 

Cookies list

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

 

First party This cookie can be set to prevent the tracking code from sending any information to HubSpot 6 months 
__hs_initial_opt_in

 

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

 

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

 

Updates to this Policy

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.

 

Contact us

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