How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you come to our website and also allows us to improve our site.

Cookies (Cookie | Name):

  • Cookie preference | civicCookieControl
    This cookie is used to remember a user’s choice about cookies on soif.org.uk. Where users have previously indicated a preference, that user’s preference will be stored in this cookie.
  • Google Analytics | _utma, _utmb, _utmc_utmz
    These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
    Click here for an overview of privacy at Google
  • Hubspot
    We use Hubspot as our CRM and to send newsletters and marketing information. You can find out more about hubspot’s use of cookies on
    their information page
  • Youtube
    We sometimes embed videos from our YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
    Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
  • Wistia | __distillery
    We embed videos from our Wisitia channel. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including how you interact with the videos.
  • WordPress | Our website uses WordPress. WordPress will set strictly necessary cookies that are essential for you to move around our website.

How do I change my cookie settings?

We use cookie control to allow you opt-out of all our cookies (except the necessary ones).

You can also opt out of cookies using your web browser though you may not be able to use our website properly. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.