Information collected automatically

We (SOS Children) automatically collect information about your visit to our site. This information is used to make your visit to our site more efficient, and to help us follow browsing preferences on our site so that we can make regular improvements. We also automatically log your IP address, a unique identifier for your computer or other access device. Most domestic internet service providers allocate IP addresses dynamically so that your IP address changes over time.

Use of Cookies on our web sites

We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

We also use our own cookies to track certain aspects of your visit.

Our cookie policy was framed in view of the widespread acceptance of such cookies across the internet, the ability of any individual surfer to set their PC to refuse cookies and the fact that it allows us to further reduce our fundraising and administration costs.  For further information about cookies and for an explanation of how you can disable them please visit www.aboutcookies.org .

We are open to any comments on this policy, please do not hesitate to get in touch with your views about it.

Use of Adobe Flash to store video preferences

Our video player is implemented using Adobe Flash and uses its capabilities to record your preferences for playing video storing this data on your PC or mobile device.