Privacy Policy and GDPR Statements

On this website

Essex Music Service may process and store information that you send us from this website via online forms such as, but not limited to, the following.

Sign-up Forms eg if you sign-up for an event or apply to join a group
Contact Forms
Mailing Lists

More information about the processing and storage of this data will be added in due course.

Cookies

A cookie is a small collection of data sent by a website to a web browser that can subsequently be ‘read’ by the website. We use cookies to track usage of this website in order that we can better serve your needs and provide you with relevant information.

The cookies used on this website include ones from:

Twitter
Facebook
Google Analytics
AddThis
WordPress (if you administer this website)
The Charanga eLearning System (if you log in to Charanga)

If you’d like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org

If you log in to the Charanga eLearning system

The privacy and GDPR statements for all data processed and controlled by Charanga can be found on Charanga’s main website. Links to specific pages can be found here:

Cookie	Duration	Description
__atuvc	1 year 1 month	This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated.
__atuvs	30 minutes	This cookie is set by Addthis to make sure you see the updated count if you share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated.
lang		This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.
newsletterpopup	90 days	Invites the visitor to sign up for the Essex Music Education Hub newsletter.

Cookie	Duration	Description
__utma	2 years	This cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to distinguish users and sessions. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmb	30 minutes	The cookie is set by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to determine new sessions/visits. The cookie is created when the JavaScript library executes and there are no existing __utma cookies. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to Google Analytics.
__utmc	session	The cookie is set by Google Analytics and is deleted when the user closes the browser. The cookie is not used by ga.js. The cookie is used to enable interoperability with urchin.js which is an older version of Google analytics and used in conjunction with the __utmb cookie to determine new sessions/visits.
__utmt	10 minutes	The cookie is set by Google Analytics and is used to throttle request rate.
__utmz	6 months	This cookie is set by Google analytics and is used to store the traffic source or campaign through which the visitor reached your site.
_gat	1 minute	This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites.
YSC	session	This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.

Cookie	Duration	Description
IDE	1 year 24 days	Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.
loc	1 year 1 month	This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located.
MUID	1 year 24 days	Used by Microsoft as a unique identifier. The cookie is set by embedded Microsoft scripts. The purpose of this cookie is to synchronize the ID across many different Microsoft domains to enable user tracking.
test_cookie	15 minutes	This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user's browser supports cookies.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	5 months 27 days	This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.

Cookie	Duration	Description
_gat_UA-148347527-1	1 minute	No description
_uetvid	16 days 6 hours	No description
CONSENT	16 years 10 months	No description
cookielawinfo-checkbox-functional	1 year	The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-others	1 year	No description
country	session	No description
elearning_resource_production	session	No description
gclid	1 month	No description
has_touch	1 day	No description
search_terms	session	No description
xtc	1 year 1 month	No description

Cookie	Duration	Description
_ga	2 years	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gid	1 day	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.
_uetsid	1 day	This cookies are used to collect analytical information about how visitors use the website. This information is used to compile report and improve site.
uvc	1 year 1 month	The cookie is set by addthis.com to determine the usage of Addthis.com service.