Cookie policy

We use cookies to do a number of things. For example, remembering your preferences, recording what you've put in your shopping basket, or counting the number of people looking at our website. The information does not directly identify you, but it can give you an improved experience on our site.

For more information about cookies visit allaboutcookies.org and youronlinechoices.eu.

The cookies we use can be grouped into the following four categories:

1. Strictly necessary
2. Functional
3. Performance
4. Advertising

Strictly Necessary cookies are those that are essential for our website to function correctly, and you cannot opt out of these.

By default, Functional, Performance and Advertising cookies are turned off. When you first visit our website, a message will appear giving you the opportunity to accept all cookies or select the option to manage your cookie preferences.

The cookies we use within each category are listed below. You can manage your cookie preferences at any time by following the ‘Manage cookies’ link in the footer of every page.

The following information covers cookies on the main Oxfam GB domain (oxfam.org.uk) and sub-domains, oxfamapps.org.uk (used occasionally for particular campaigns), and Oxfam's Online Shop (onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk).

These cookies are essential to the functioning of our website, and as such cannot be switched off. They are used for important functions such as administering cookie preferences.  Strictly necessary cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

• ARRAffinity
  Purpose: This cookie is set by websites run on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to make sure the visitor page requests are routed to the same server in any browsing session.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Session
• eupubconsent
  Purpose: This cookie is used by the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework to store the user's consent. The cookie holds an encrypted consent string that vendors participating in the framework can read and determine the user's consent.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Session
• _GRECAPTCHA
  Purpose: Google reCAPTCHA is an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive challenges to keep malicious software from engaging in abusive activities on our website.
  Provider: google.com
  Duration: 179 days
• OptanonConsent
  Purpose: Stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 365 days
• OptanonAlertBoxClosed
  Purpose: Allows us to not show the Cookie Consent message more than once to a user. This cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 365 days

Additional strictly necessary cookies used only by Oxfam's Online Shop

• ak_bmsc
  Purpose: This cookie is used by Akamai to optimize site security by distinguishing between humans and bots. bm_sv. This cookie is necessary for the Akamai cache function. A cache is used by the website to optimize the response time between the visitor and the website.
  Provider: onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Two hours
• atgRecSessionsId, atgRecVisitorId,
  Purpose: This cookie is set by Oracle, the technology used by the Oxfam Online Shop. This cookie helps recognise users across visits and sessions, for example to ensure the account functionality works correctly.
  Provider: onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Persistent
• bId (AWIN)
  Purpose: Sets a browser-specific ID to identify a new click on the same browser.
  Provider: awin1.com
  Duration: 1 year
• BIGipServercloud-commerce-visit_oracleoutsourcing_com_http
  Purpose: The BIGIP cookie is an HTTP Only cookie that maintains a connection to a single application instance. This cookie is not accessible from scripts and contains no personal data.
  Provider: onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Session
• __ccstoreroute
  Purpose: This cookie is required by the technology underpinning Oxfam's Online Shop. This cookie contains no personal data and expires at the end of the session.
  Provider: onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Session
• E3sessionID
  Purpose: This is a session cookie set by Oracle (Oxfam's Online Shop). It is needed for webforms and account functionality.
  Provider: onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Session
• JSESSIONID
  Purpose: The JSESSIONID cookie, which has a life that lasts only until the user’s browsing session ends, helps the server to manage user sessions. Preserves users states across page requests.
  Provider: onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Session
• ORA_FPC
  Purpose: This cookie is used by Oracle, the software used by Oxfam's Online Shop. It contains a randomly generated visitor ID.
  Provider: onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 730 days
• source
  Purpose: This cookie takes a parameter from the URL and stores it in order to attribute traffic from our affiliate marketing network accurately.
  Provider: onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 1 month
• visitroute
  Purpose: This cookie is required by the system which runs Oxfam's Online Shop. It expires at the end of the session.
  Provider: visit-prod-eur.occa.ocs.oraclecloud.com
  Duration: 1 month
• xd..._siteUS
  Purpose: This cookies is generated by Visitor ID services and track visitor IDs. These cookies expire on 01/01/2038. It does not collect personal data. Read more information about this cookie on the Oracle website.
  Provider: onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Persistent.
• xv..._siteUS
  Purpose: These cookies are generated by Visitor ID services and track visit IDs. These cookies expire at the end of the session.
  Provider: onlineshop.oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Session.

These cookies improve your experience on the Oxfam website. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. Switching off these cookies will mean that areas of our website may not work properly.

• AWSALBTGCORS, AWSALBTG
  Purpose: Used by Form Assembly, which provides web form services and uses Amazon Web Services to load-balance traffic to ensure good performance.
  Provider: faforms.net
  Duration: 6 days.
• BrowserId_sec, X-Salesforce-CHAT
  Purpose: These cookies is used by the Salesforce Live Chat Tool, which enables website users to contact Oxfam's Supporter Relations Team.
  Provider: Force.com
  Duration: 365 days.
• FORMASSEMBLY
  Purpose: This cookie is used to maintain session information for users interacting with forms. It helps in tracking the user's session state, ensuring that data entered into forms is retained as users navigate through multi-page forms or return to a form after a break. This enhances the user experience by preventing data loss and ensuring continuity.
  Provider: FormAssembly.com
  Duration: Session.
• FASRV
  Purpose: This cookie is typically used by our forms platform for load balancing purposes. It helps distribute incoming web traffic across multiple servers to ensure that the website remains responsive and performs well under load.
  Provider: FormAssembly.com
  Duration: Session.

These cookies gather information such as how many people are using our site or which pages are popular to help us improve customer experience. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

• ABTasty
  Purpose: Used by ABTasty, an AB testing software provider. Contains visitor ID, campaign, History, timestamp and account settings. Find out more on the ABTasty website.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 13 months
  
• ABTastySession
  Purpose: Used by ABTasty, an AB testing software provider. Contains landing page URL. Also used to determine if the session is new. Find out more on the ABTasty website.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 30 minutes of inactivity
  
• ABTastyDomainTest
  Purpose: Checks that ABTasty is operating on the expected domain. Find out more on the ABTasty website.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: a few milliseconds
  
• _hjSessionUser_3060642, _hjid
  Purpose: Used by HotJar. We use Hotjar to understand how you use our website through Hotjar services such as heatmaps, and page usage recordings. This cookie is set when a user first lands on a page. Ensures data from subsequent visits to the same site are attributed to the same user ID. More information about HotJar cookies.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 1 year
  
• _hjSession_3060642
  Purpose: Used by HotJar. Holds current session data. Ensures subsequent requests in the session window are attributed to the same session. More information about HotJar cookies.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 30 minutes
  
• _hjRecordingEnabled
  Purpose: Used by HotJar. Set when a HotJar Recording starts. Read when the Recording module is initialized to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session.More information about HotJar cookies.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Session.
  
• _hjFirstSeen
  Purpose: Used by HotJar. Identifies a new user’s first session.More information about HotJar cookies.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Session.
  
• _hjUserAttributesHash
  Purpose: User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session.More information about HotJar cookies.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Session.
  
• _hjViewportId
  Purpose: Used by HotJar. Stores user viewport details such as size and dimensions.More information about HotJar cookies.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Session.
  
• _hjTLDTest
  Purpose: Used by HotJar. to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of page hostname.More information about HotJar cookies.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: Session.

These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners so that they can show you relevant adverts on other sites. This helps to ensure our advertising works as effectively and efficiently as possible. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.

• _adal_ca
  Purpose: Used by Adalyser, a platform that tracks TV advertising campaigns. This cookie stores traffic source and campaign data and is used to determine which advertising campaign drove that visit to the Oxfam website.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk / oxfamapps.org.uk
  Duration: 6 months
  
• _adal_cw
  Purpose: Used by Adalyser, a platform that tracks TV advertising campaigns. Ties events (such as signing a petition or donating) back and is used to determine to which advertising campaign that event should be attributed.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk / oxfamapps.org.uk
  Duration: 1 week
  
• _adal_id
  Purpose: Used by Adalyser, a platform that tracks TV advertising campaigns. Uniquely identifies a device to aid the attribution of a visit to a particular advertising campaign.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk / oxfamapps.org.uk
  Duration: 1 month
  
• _adal_ses
  Purpose: Used by Adalyser, a platform that tracks TV advertising campaigns. Determines whether there is an active session and which conversions have taken place in this session to prevent duplicates, stores a list of events in this session.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk / oxfamapps.org.uk
  Duration: Session
  
• ar_debug
  Purpose: This cookie is used by Pinterest, a social sharing platform.
  Provider: pitnerest.com
  Duration: 364 days
  
• ATN
  Purpose: This cookie is served by Atlas, a subsidiary of Meta, and is used as a third-party cookie by several websites. Privacy information on the Meta website.
  Provider: atdmt.com
  Duration: 2 years
  
• __cf_bm
  Purpose: This is a CloudFoundry cookie.
  Porvider: Twitter.com
  Duration: A few seconds
  
• _dlt
  Purpose: This cookie is created by Quantacast. Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes.
  Porvider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 1 day
  
• _ga
  Purpose: Used by Google Analytics. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as an identifier. More details about the purpose and nature of Google Analytics cookies.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 2 years
  
• _gid
  Purpose: This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish unique users and also assigns a unique value for each page visited. We use this to monitor and improve the performance of our website. More details about the purpose and nature of Google Analytics cookies.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 1 day
  
• _gcl_au
  Purpose: Used by Google Analytics. This cookie is used to determine whether a user has arrived at a particular page. More details about the purpose and nature of Google Analytics cookies.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 90 days.
  
• _fbp
  Purpose: Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. More information about Facebook's use of cookies.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 90 days
  
• fr
  Purpose: Contains a combination of unique IDs for browser and used by Facebook for targeted advertising.More information about Facebook's use of cookies.
  Provider: Facebook.com
  Duration: 3 months
  
• IDE
  Purpose: Used by Google DoubleClick to monitor the success of advertisements and to present targeted ads to the user.
  Provider: Doubleclick.net
  Duration: 390 days
  
• lang
  Purpose: This cookie is used by Twitter to store language preferences, potentially to serve up content in the preferred language. More information on the Twitter website.
  Provider: Twitter.com
  Duration: Session
  
• lantern
  Purpose: This cookie is used by the affiliate marketing platform AWIN to store a reference to a visit to attribute a sale to marketing channels.
  Provider: awin.com
  Duration: 29 days
  
• *_lantern, 2921_lantern
  Purpose: Used by SingleView, part of the Awin affiliate marketing platform. Stores a reference to a visit to attribute a sale to marketing channels.
  Provider: roeye.com
  Duration: 181 days
  
• mc
  Purpose: This cookie is used by Quantserve to track anonymous information about how website visitors use the site.
  Provider: quantserve.com
  Duration: 395 days
  
• MSPTC
  Purpose: Used by Microsoft to track traffic from adverts on the Bing.com search engine.
  Provider: Bing.com
  Duration: 389 days
  
• MUID
  Purpose: Used by Microsoft Bing as a unique user identifier.
  Provider: Bing.com
  Duration: 390 days
  
• muc_ads
  Purpose: This is a cookie that is set by X (formerly Twitter). It collects data on user behaviour and interaction to make advertising more relevant.
  Provider: t.co
  Duration: 729 days
  
• _pin_unauth
  Purpose: Used by Pinterest to track the use of its services. More information on the Pinterest website.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 1 year
  
• personalization_id
  Purpose: This cookie is used by Twitter. It is primarily used for tracking and targeting. More information on the Twitter website.
  Provider: Twitter.com
  Duration: 2 years
  
• _rdt_uuid
  Purpose: This cookie is set by Reddit and is used for tracking the views of embedded videos and performance of the advertisements.
  Provider: Reddit.com
  Duration: 2 months
  
• __qca
  Purpose: This cookie is created by Quantacast for aggregate traffic analysis. Quantcast privacy policy.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 390 days
  
• __Secure-xxxxxxx
  Purpose: Used by YouTube, which collects user data through videos embedded in websites. This is then aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites.
  Provider: youtube.com
  Duration: 179 days
  
• sc_at
  Purpose: Cookie associated with embedding content from Snapchat. Snapchat privacy policy.
  Provider: snapchat.com
  Duration: 390 days
  
• _scid, _scid_r,_schn1,_schn2
  Purpose: These cookies are used by Snapchat to assign a unique ID to a user. Snapchat privacy policy.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 395 days
  
• _spdt
  Purpose: Used by Spotify to analyze user interactions on a site, specifically focusing on the actions that audio listeners take after hearing or seeing an ad.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 395 days
  
• ttcsid_
  Purpose: To measure and improve the performance of our advertising campaigns and to personalise the user's experience (including ads) on TikTok. TikTok privacy policy.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 89 days
  
• _tt_enable_cookie, _ttp
  Purpose: To measure and improve the performance of our advertising campaigns and to personalise the user's experience (including ads) on TikTok. TikTok privacy policy.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 389 days
  
• _uetsid
  Purpose: This cookie is used by Microsoft Bing to determine what ads should be shown that may be relevant to its users.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 1 day
  
• VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA
  Purpose: Used by Youtube.com to stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain.
  Provider: Youtube.com
  Duration: 179 day
  
• _uetvid
  Purpose: Used by Microsoft Bing to present relevant advertisements based on the user's preferences.
  Provider: Oxfam.org.uk
  Duration: 17 days
  
• X-AB
  Purpose: This cookie is associated with embedding content from Snapchat. Snapchat privacy policy.
  Provider: Snapchat.com
  Duration: 1 day

We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.

• PREF — Expires after eight months.
• VSC — Expires at the end of your session.
• VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE — Expires after eight months.
• remote_sid — Expires at the end of your session.