Statutory Cookie Policy

We seek to ensure our website and other online facilities comply with applicable privacy and data protection law

Cookie Statement

We use cookies on this website that help visitors get the best from our features and content.

How we use cookies on www.tamarind-centre.org.uk

This website uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your computer drive to help the site provide a better user experience. When you first visit our site it will ask for permission to place cookies on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or remember your preferences.

What do cookies do?

Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by remembering information about your preferences.


We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used or visited. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to meet your needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.


Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.


You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. Be aware that this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

Types of cookies

Persistent cookies

These cookies remain on a user's device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.


Session cookies

These cookies enable services that you have specifically asked for. For any types of cookies that are strictly necessary, no consent is required. Therefore, by using the website, you agree for these types of cookies to be placed on your device.


Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies enable services that you have specifically asked for. For those types of cookies that are strictly necessary, no consent is required. Therefore by using the website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.


These cookies are essential for the site to function. They are used for features such as e-commerce baskets, site login and user tracking to ensure users can navigate the site effectively.


These cookies are not available to third party sites and are not used to track behaviour or to place personalised adverts or any other content.

Functionality cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) to improve your experience and provide enhanced, more personalised features. 


These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog.


You can control or delete these type of cookies in your computer browser settings.


Performance cookies

These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use the website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages they have visited. 


These cookies don't collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the website works.


You can control or delete these type of cookies in your device browser settings.

Changes to our website policies

The Tamarind Centre may change this policy by updating privacy and cookie pages.


You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes

that we  may have made.

See privacy statements

Additional References

We suggest consulting the help section of your web browser or taking a look at the 

About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

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