Cookie Policy

This policy was last reviewed on 13/6/23 and is currently being updated.

stem4 (“stem4” or “we” or “us” or “our“) is a registered charity (charity number 1144506) located at 51 St George’s Road, London SW19 4EA and we use cookies to improve your experience of our Website.

You can find out more below about what cookies are, the cookies we use and how to switch off cookies.  You can indicate your acceptance of our use of cookies in accordance with this Cookie Policy (“Policy“) by clicking on “Yes” in the appropriate place on the banner that appears on the homepage of our Website.  However, please note that if you do not click “Yes” but you continue to browse our Website you will be deemed to have accepted our use of cookies in accordance with this Policy.

In this Policy:

Personal Information” means information that relates to a living individual who can be identified from that information that is held by us or is likely to be held by us;

Website” means the website .

1.  What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file containing small amounts of information which is downloaded to / stored on your computer (or other internet enabled devices, such as a smartphone or tablet) (“your device“) when you visit our Website. Cookies help us remember information about your visit, like your country, language and other settings. They can also help us to operate the Website more efficiently and make your next visit easier. Cookies can also allow us to do various other things, as explained below.

2. What cookies do we use?

When you visit the Website, the following cookies may be downloaded to your device:

Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are required for the administration and operation of the Website. Without these cookies, the Website (or parts of it) may not work properly. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website.

Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors/users of the Website and to see how such visitors/users move around the Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way the Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

While we do not use targeting cookies for advertising purposes, we use a number of third-party cookies on the Website for functional, as well as analytical/performance, purposes. If you would like more information about these third-party cookies, please click here.

To enrich our content, we sometimes embed photos and video content from websites such as YouTube. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube, YouTube may set a cookie. Please note that we do not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website, such as YouTube, for more information about their cookies.

A list of the main cookies we use on the Website are set out below:

  • Google Analytics
  • YouTube

3. How do you turn cookies off?

If you do not want us to install cookies or you don’t agree to how we use them in any way, you can change the settings on your Internet browser or reject cookies. The “Help” section of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your device from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including those cookies that are strictly necessary for the administration and operation of the Website) you may experience reduced functionality or not be able to access all or parts of the Website. Further information may be found at allaboutcookies.org.

4. Changes to our policy

This Policy was last updated on 14th May 2018. This Policy may change from time to time and, if it does, the up-to-date version will always be available on the Website, in particular on the homepage of our Website. Please note that at any time by continuing to use the Website you will be deemed to have accepted our use of cookies in accordance with this Policy.

5.  Queries and our contact details

If you have any questions or comments relating to this Policy, please get in touch with us by email at enquiries@stem4.org.uk.

Cookies may collect personal information about you. Cookies help us remember information about your visit to our website, like your country, language and other settings. Cookies allow us to understand who has seen which webpages, to determine how frequently particular pages are visited and to determine the most popular areas of our website. They can also help us to operate our website more efficiently and make your next visit easier. Cookies can allow us to do various other things. For more information about how our cookies work and information about how to manage your cookie settings please visit our Cookie Policy 

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