Cookies Policy

BACKGROUND

In common with most other websites, Assemblies of God Incorporated (“AoG”), use cookies. A cookie is a small piece of text sent from a website and stored in your web browser. The cookie can be retrieved by the website the next time you return to the

website, so that the website can, for example, remember your saved preferences. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. 

WHAT ARE COOKIES? 

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit our website. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally

improving the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests. 

Cookies can be “First Party”, i.e. set by AoG, or “Third Party” – set by another company to perform the function, e.g. Google Analytics. 

As with many websites, we may also use Adobe Flash Player to deliver video content to you. Adobe utilise their own cookies also known as Flash Cookies, which are not manageable through your browser settings but are used by the Flash Player for similar purposes, such as storing preferences or tracking users. Further details and instructions to remove this cookie can be found here. 

USE OF COOKIES BY AoG 

When someone visits our website we collect standard internet log information. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the website. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. 

If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through any of the website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it. For further details of our Privacy Policy please click here. 

We also allow cookies to be set by a number of independent measurement and research companies – details of which can be found in the cookies table below. These companies read and write their own cookies onto your devices. For example, these cookies are used to track the adverts and keep count of the number of times that each advert is viewed by users. We use this type of information to help improve the services the website provides to you.

Examples of purposes for which a cookie may be used: 

This cookie [is essential for our site to OR enables us to]: 

[(a) Estimate our audience size and understand how our website it used.] We use the following cookies: 

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. They include, for example, [cookies that enable you to log into our intranet service] You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website. 
• Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. 

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party

cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies: Google Analytics and Squarespace Analytics.

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the relevant consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies. 

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, click here. 

HOW CAN I PREVENT COOKIES BEING USED? 

When you first visit our website, you will have the opportunity to provide consent or deny access to certain cookies in the cookie banner. 

You can find out how to do this via your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser’s menu or by visiting http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index. html. You can choose to accept or reject cookies being used on our website in the cookies banner.

However, please be aware that should you choose to disable cookies it may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website and some of the website may fail to work. Except for strictly necessary cookies, all cookies will expire after 12 months. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

USE OF COOKIES BY AoG 

When someone visits our website we collect standard internet log information. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the website. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We also allow cookies to be set by a number of independent measurement and research companies. These companies read and write their own cookies onto your devices. For example, these cookies are used to track the adverts and keep count of the number of times that each advert is viewed by users. We use this type of information to help improve the services the website provides to you. 

If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through any of the website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.