Needs Met - Cookie Policy

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

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

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 secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. 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.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose so that they can serve you with relevant advertising on their websites.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name	Purpose	More information
_judge_key	Necessary cookie for authenticating sessions and managing the login process
_judge_web_user_remember_me	Necessary cookie for authenticating sessions and managing the login process
__stripe_mid	Necessary cookie for making payment transactions, fraud prevention and detection	More information available at stripe.com
_ga	Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device.	More information available at google.com
_ga_*	Used by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device.	More information available at google.com

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site/app.

Continuing to use the site/app will start to store the third-party cookies listed above as you navigate around the site/app, including a cookie to remember your consent choice – this cookie will expire within 24 months from the date it is stored.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire within 24 months.

Opt-out of Third-Party Cookies

To help you opt-out of other third-party vendor’s use of cookies, visit the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at info@yourneedsmet.co.uk