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    This Cookie Policy is intended for anyone using the msichoices.org website.

    This policy tells you about the cookies we use, why we use them and how they improve your experience on our website. 

    Cookies are small digital files that websites save locally to your computer or mobile device and enable us to “remember” your visits, actions or preferences. They are commonly used to support various functions on our website. Cookies also help us to understand how effective our website has been to you and improve our communication to you on our services.

    We use cookies to:
    – Make our site work.
    – Collect data on how users navigate our site, which helps us to improve it.
    – Allow you to share our content on social networks.
    – Help us provide relevant advertising to those who may be interested in it.
     
    We do not use cookies to:
    – Collect any personal data.
    – Pass personal data to third parties.
     
    We also use both first-party and third-party cookies on our website.

    “First-party” cookies are set and collected by our website and are generally used to identify language, location preferences or render basic site functionality and are only used when you visit our website.

    “Third-party” cookies are set and collected on our website by third-party providers. These third parties include our partners and service providers, such as advertisers, search engines, social media platforms, or analytics platforms that enable us to improve and personalise your experiences on our websites and deliver relevant content to you. We do not share any data with these third parties that may identify you. These cookies are applied in accordance with the third party’s cookie policy, which we have no control over. To find out more about the cookies set by these external sources, please visit their websites.

    This website only uses four types of cookies:
     
    1. Strictly necessary cookies

    These cookies are essential. They let you use all the different parts of our website. Without these cookies, some features of our website would not work properly.

    2. Performance cookies

    These cookies help us understand how you use our website and assess its performance. For example, they allow us to see which pages on our site are visited the most.

    3. Functional cookies

    These cookies improve your browsing experience by remembering choices you made about the website during your last visit. For example, your settings and user preferences.

    4. Targeting cookies

    We or our third-party partners may use targeting cookies (also called advertising cookies) when you are browsing our website to allow us display relevant advertising to you on our website, and on other websites and social media platforms. Targeting cookies are not used to directly identify you and do not store personal data. Only digital identifiers and behavioral information (e.g. if you donated) would be used for this purpose. Data collected by these cookies is not used to send direct marketing messages to you.

    To find out more about the cookies set by these external sources, please click the links below:
    Google Analytics
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    Google Maps
    Google +
    Facebook
    Twitter
    LinkedIn
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    Vimeo

    Some cookies are sessional, which means they are kept only for the duration of your visit on the website. For example, a cookie that checks whether you can read our website properly is sessional. Other cookies last for longer, from 6 months to 2 years. Those cookies will tell us how many times you visited our website, for example.

    When you first visit our website, a pop-up banner will appear to let you know our website uses cookies and to invite you to read this Cookie Policy. You can choose to continue to browse the website and accept the cookies we use, or you can choose to reject or block some specific types of cookies by clicking on the cookie preferences on our website.

    Some cookies are essential cookies, which cannot be turned off. These cookies are “Strictly necessary”. If you choose not to accept our cookies, then we will only store these “Strictly necessary” cookies. You can also change your preferences on our website and/or the websites of any third-party service provider by changing your browser settings.

    Please note that most browsers automatically accept cookies. Therefore, if you do not wish cookies to be used, you may need to actively delete or block the cookies. If you reject the use of cookies, you will still be able to visit our website but some of the functions may not work correctly. By using our website without deleting or rejecting some or all cookies, you agree that we can place those cookies that you have not deleted or rejected on your device. 

    You can visit the below sites to find more information on how to manage your cookie settings in these popular browsers:
     
    Internet Explorer
    Google Chrome
    Firefox
    Safari
    Opera

    Please see our Privacy Policy to find out more about how we keep your information safe and private.

    If you have any questions about our Cookies Policy, you can contact us by email: [email protected] or by post:

    MSI Reproductive Choices
    1 Conway Street
    Fitzroy Square
    W1T 6LP
    London
    United Kingdom

    We will keep this policy under regular review and will publish any updates on this page. This Cookies Policy was last updated on 31 December 2023.