Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work better, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. A cookie often contain a unique number, which can be used to recognise your computer when a user of your computer returns to a website that it visited previously.

You can read our privacy policy for more information about how we process personal data.

How Cookies Work

The cookies we use can be grouped into the following two categories: Essential cookies and Non-Essential Cookies. Essential cookies are the strictly necessary cookies that are essential for our website to function correctly, and you cannot opt out of these. However, you can choose to opt-out of non-essential cookies.

When you first visit our website, a message will appear giving you the opportunity to accept all cookies or decline the use of cookies as you use the website. The cookies we use within each category are listed below.

Essential cookies

Essential cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like:

  • Anonymised basic analytics for e.g google analytics
  • Your choice whether you consented to save non-essential cookies or not
  • Bot detection (eg. captchas, commerce)
Cookie name Provider Expiry Purpose
_grecaptcha google.com (Recaptcha) Persistent This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website
_GRECAPTCHA google.com (Recaptcha) 179 days This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website
rc::a google.com (Recaptcha) Persistent This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.
rc::b google.com (Recaptcha) Session This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.
rc::c google.com (Recaptcha) Session This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots
_ga_ google.com (Anonymous analytics) 2 years Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
_gat google.com (Anonymous analytics) 1 day Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate
_gid google.com (Anonymous analytics) 1 day Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
collect google.com (Anonymous analytics) Session Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
CookieConsent lovelife.org.za 1 year Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain
Drupal.country-code lovelife.org.za Session This is a geo-location cookie that is used to show the country where the visitor is from
fundraiseup_cid Fundraise up 10 years An overall unique and anonymous Fundraise Up identifier for that visitor/user, persistent across sessions, used for anti-fraud, element analytics, and components of AI suggestions. First party cookie.
fundraiseup_session Fundraise Up Session A temporary session ID used for domain-specific elements such as the reminder, message bar, and social proof elements as well as some anti-fraud features. First party cookie.

Non-essential cookies

Non-essential cookies are those which add features to the site, but aren’t considered necessary for the site to work, such as for complex tracking.

Cookie name Provider Expiry Purpose
CONSENT google.com (youtube.com) 195 months Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE google.com (youtube.com) 179 days Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
YSC google.com (youtube.com) Session Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen
NID google.com (Ads via maps) 6 months Registers a unique ID that identifies a returning user’s device. The ID is used for targeted ads.
usbl.#.c.# Usabilla Persistent Used to track user feedback and aids us  in shaping the user journey on the website by getting to know the  user experiences