This Cookie Policy explains how South Carolina Children's Fund ("SCCF", "the Fund", "we", "us") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at southcarolinachildrensfund.org (the āWebsiteā or “Site”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information, or that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first- and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Site to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Site. Third parties serve cookies through our Site for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by accepting or rejecting the use of cookies on this site via the notification banner that appears when you first visit our Site. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our Site may be restricted. If you continue to use our site by clicking or scrolling after the banner appears, you accept the use of cookies on this Site. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.
What cookies are being used?
The specific types of first- and third-party cookies served through our Site and the purposes they perform are described in the table below (please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific pages you visit):
Essential website cookies
Cookies from the following entities are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
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Cloudflare
Places on end-user devices that access customer sites protected by Bot Management or Bot Fight Mode (Privacy Policy) -
Google reCAPTCHA
Used to track and analyze user behavior to distinguish humans from bots or automated software (Privacy Policy)
Performance & functionality cookies
Cookies from the following entities are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Site but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.
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YouTube
Stores a unique ID for the user’s device for YouTube; Stores a list of YouTube requests made by the user; Stores a list of connected devices for YouTube; Stores a list of YouTube requests made by the user; Stores the last result entry key used by YouTube (Privacy Policy)
Analytics cookies
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Site is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Site for you.
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Google Analytics
Used to distinguish individual users by means of designation of a randomly generated number as client identifier, which allows calculation of visits and sessions; Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user (Privacy Policy)
Advertising & advertising analytics cookies
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
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LinkedIn
Used to optimize the range of advertising on Linkedin (Privacy Policy) -
Meta
Tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalized advertising across Meta-owned properties such as Facebook and Instagram (Privacy Policy) -
YouTube / Google
YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is 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; Used by Google to verify Google user account and most recent login time (Privacy Policy)
Social networking cookies
These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our Website through third-party social networking and other websites. These cookies may also be used for advertising purposes.
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LinkedIn
Cookie used for Sign-in with Linkedin and/or for Linkedin follow feature on 3rd party websites (Privacy Policy) -
Meta
Tracking pixel used to identify visitors for personalized advertising across Meta-owned properties such as Facebook and Instagram (Privacy Policy)
How can I control cookies on my browser?
As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information. The following is information about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:
- Digital Advertising Alliance
- Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance
What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?
Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an email including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Do you use Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects?
Websites may also use so-called “Flash Cookies” (also known as Local Shared Objects or “LSOs”) to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, fraud prevention, and for other site operations.
If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash Cookies by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash Cookies (referred to “information” on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash Cookies that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).
Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with our services or online content.
Do you serve targeted advertising?
Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. They can accomplish this by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details, or other details that directly identify you unless you choose to provide these.
How often will you update this Cookie Policy?
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. This will be indicated by an updated “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Please therefore revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
Where can I get further information?
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us using the contact form listed at the bottom of this page.