Cookie policy

Meningitis Research Foundation and the Confederation of Meningitis Organisations (COMO)

We have developed this policy to explain how we use cookies and similar technologies on our Meningitis Research Foundation (meningitis.org) and CoMO (comomeningitis.org) websites and to demonstrate our commitment to the privacy of your personal information.

The first time that you visit our websites, we notify you about our use of cookies using a notification banner. By continuing to use these websites, you consent to our use of cookies as described in this policy. However, you can choose whether or not to continue accepting cookies at any later time. Information on how to manage cookies is set out here.

Please note that our use of any personal information we collect about you is described in our privacy policy.

Essential cookies

Some cookies are essential to the functionality of our websites e.g. cookies used for our online store. If you disable all cookies, some parts of our site may no longer work.

Non-essential cookies

These are used for analytics, so we can continue to monitor and improve our websites, and for advertising, to ensure we have the resources we need to do our work. These include Google Analytics and Meta’s pixel. For more details on these two products please refer to their respective privacy policies.

Cookie	Domain	Description	Duration	Type
CMSPreferredCulture	www.meningitis.org	This is an essential cookie which is used to store the visitors preferred content culture.	1 year	Essential
CMSCsrfCookie	www.meningitis.org	This cookie is used for protecting against Cross Site Request Forgery. The cookie stores a security token that the system uses to validate all form data submitted via POST requests.	session	Essential
ASP.NET_SessionId	www.meningitis.org	Issued by Microsoft's ASP.NET Application, this cookie stores session data during a user's website visit.	session	Essential
_ga	.meningitis.org	The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookie stores information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to recognize unique visitors.	2 years	Analytics
_gid	.meningitis.org	Installed by Google Analytics, _gid cookie stores information on how visitors use a website, while also creating an analytics report of the website's performance. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.	1 day	Analytics
_gat_UA-1676008-1	.meningitis.org	A variation of the _gat cookie set by Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to allow website owners to track visitor behaviour and measure site performance. The pattern element in the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to.	1 minute	Analytics
_fbp	.meningitis.org	This cookie is set by Facebook to display advertisements when either on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising, after visiting the website.	3 months	Advertisement

How to limit or disable cookies

Our websites (meningitis.org and comomeningitis.org) store cookies. You can choose to disallow all non-essential cookies here. This would mean that only cookies that are essential to allow the websites to work would apply.

Please note that, if you choose not to accept certain cookies, it may mean we are unable to provide you with some services or features on our websites.

To understand more about what this means in certain browsers you can read more below (or you can use the “Help” option in your browser).

More about how to manage cookies:  allaboutcookies.org and youronlinechoices.com.