Cookies & privacy policy
1. About us
At Wildlife Heritage Areas, an initiative co-founded by World Animal Protection and the World Cetacean Alliance, we rely on supporters, people like you, to protect animals from cruelty and suffering around the world. Your support is important. That’s why we are committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what we will use it for.
This policy sets out how and why Wildlife Heritage Areas (c/o World Animal Protection) collects and uses your personal data, and how we keep it private and secure. Personal data is information that identifies you or can be used to identify you.
The policy relates to World Animal Protection’s use of personal information collected on the Wildlife Heritage Areas website that links to this privacy policy, on social media, or official Wildlife Heritage Areas content. It also relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us by phone, SMS, email, in person, and any personal information we may collect about you indirectly. How we communicate with you as an individual, and your rights as an individual in respect to such information and communications.
If you have any questions about this policy or how we use your personal data, please email privacy@wildlifeheritageareas.org or write to Global Data Protection Manager, World Animal Protection, York House, Wetherby Road, York, YO26 7NH, UK.
2. Definitions
In this privacy policy references to:
- “we”, "us" or "our" are to Wildlife Heritage Areas c/o World Animal Protection, York House, Wetherby Road, York, YO26 7NH, a Charity in England and Wales (Registered Charity 1081849) and as a Company Limited by Guarantee in England and Wales (Registration No. 4029540). The Company has two subsidiary companies: World Animal Protection Trading Company Limited (Registration No. 2880146) and World Animal Protection Executor Service Limited (Registration No. 3106147).
- “the Website” is www.wildlifeheritageareas.org
3. Information we collect
The information which we collect may include:
a. Any personal details about you as an individual which you provide to us through forms on the website and emails exchanged with us, such as your first name, last name, email address, location, telephone number, organisation, business name, position, and job title.
b. Your preferences and use of email updates, as recorded by emails that we send you. Your IP Address, a string of numbers unique to your computer that is recorded by our web server when you request any page or component of the Website. This information may be used to monitor your usage of the Website.
* For more details, please see our statement below policy on ‘Cookies’
4. Use of your information
a. Any information about you as an individual which we collect from the website will be used in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 2018 and other applicable laws.
b. The information will be used to deal with you and / or your organisation.
c. In certain cases we may use your email address to send you information about Wildlife Heritage Areas. If so, you will be offered the option to opt out of receiving such e-mails.
d. We may need to pass your personal information to other companies for administrative purposes. We may use third parties, to carry out certain activities, such as processing and sorting data, monitoring how customers use the Website and issuing our e-mails. Third parties are not allowed to use your personal information for their own purposes. For these purposes your details may be transferred outside the United Kingdom (UK) and when this happens, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal information and to keep it secure. If appropriate safeguards do not exist, we will only transfer your personal data with your explicit consent, after informing you of the possible risks of such transfer.
e. We will not sell or pass on your personal information to anyone.
5. Data storage
We regularly review the personal information that we store, so that we only store it for as long as we need to. This storage period will not exceed 2 years without re-permission or where there is a legal requirement to do so.
6. How to control your personal information
Your personal information belongs to you, and we want you to feel in control of it. Here’s how you can exercise your rights.
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. Please put your request in writing to the Global Data Protection Manager, World Animal Protection, York House, Wetherby Road, York, YO26 7NH, UK, together with two forms of identification (current passport [the page with your personal details]; driving licence; birth certificate; utility bill from last 3 months; current vehicle registration document; bank statement from last 3 months; rent book from last 3 months. We don’t store this identification. It’s used solely to verify the requester’s identity). It’s helpful if you explain what particular records you’re seeking, but you don’t have to say.
You have a right to ask us to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete. To do this, please send details of the changes you want us to make to privacy@wildlifeheritageareas.org. We may ask you to provide a form of identification.
You can let us know via our website at anytime if you no longer wish to be contacted by Wildlife Heritage Areas.
7. Complaint
If you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is being processed by Wildlife Heritage Areas (or any third parties we use to help process your data), or how your complaint has been handled, please see our complaints policy.
You have the right to lodge a complaint directly with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
8. Cookies
a. Cookies may be used by the Website to allow us to recognise you and your preferred settings for future sessions. This saves you from re-entering information on return visits to the Website. You have the option not to use this feature, in which event no cookies will be retained on your computer.
b. If the site has a secure log-in for our registered users, it may use a temporary ’session cookie’ in order to perform the secure login to our website. This cookie contains no personal information, just a long random number, and is deleted from your web browser when you exit the Website.
c. Temporary cookies are used in the transactional part of the Website to authenticate you as an authorised user after you have logged in.
d. Your browser may be capable of being programmed to reject cookies, or to warn you before downloading cookies, and information regarding this may be found in your browser’s ‘help’ facility.
For an explanation of cookies see the All About Cookies website.
If you have any questions regarding the use of cookies please contact us.
Below is a table of all cookies on this website – their name, purpose and expiry:
Necessary
| Cookie | Domain | Expiry |
| AspNetCore.Antiforgery.***** Purpose: This cookie supports security functionalities on the website. |
www.wildlifeheritageareas.org | Session |
| __cf_bm Purpose: The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming trac that matches criteria associated with bots. |
.myfonts.net | 29 minutes 55 seconds |
| __cf_bm Purpose: The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming trac that matches criteria associated with bots. |
.vimeo.com | 29 minutes 53 seconds |
| _cfuvid Purpose: This cookie is a part of the services provided by Cloudflare - Including load balancing, deliverance of website content and serving DNS connection for website operators. |
.vimeo.com | Session |
| ARRAnity 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. |
.www.wildlifeheritageareas.org | Session |
| ARRAnitySameSite Purpose: This cookie is set by websites running on the Windows Azure cloud platform. It is used for load balancing to ensure that visitor page requests are forwarded to the same server in each browser session. |
.www.wildlifeheritageareas.org | Session |
| cookierst-consent Purpose: This cookie saves your cookie preferences for this website. You can change these or withdraw your consent easily. |
www.wildlifeheritageareas.org | 6 months |
| cookierst-consent Purpose: This cookie saves your cookie preferences for this website. You can change these or withdraw your consent easily. |
www.wildlifeheritageareas.org | Persistent |
| cookierst-id Purpose: This cookie contains your unique ID so CookieFirst can identify unique visitors to this website. |
www.wildlifeheritageareas.org | Persistent |
Performance
| Cookie | Domain | Expiry |
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN Purpose: By setting this token, YouTube and therefore Google can ensure that a single user sees a consistent version of an experimental feature across different sessions or pages (a "staged rollout" or "A/B test") |
.youtube.com | 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours 59 minutes 57 seconds |
| _clsk Purpose: This cookie connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. |
.wildlifeheritageareas.org | 23 hours 59 minutes 57 seconds |
| _clsk Purpose: This cookie connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. |
www.wildlifeheritageareas.org | 23 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds |
| _ga Purpose: Registers a unique ID for a website visitor to track how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics. Data transfer to third countries: USA. Google LLC. is certified under the Data Privacy Framework, indicating that your rights as a data subject can be guaranteed. |
.wildlifeheritageareas.org | 1 year 1 month 4 days 13 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds |
| _ga_******** Purpose: This cookie stores a unique ID for a website visitor and tracks how the visitor uses the website. The data is used for statistics. Data transfer. to third countries: USA. Google LLC. is certified under the Data Privacy Framework, indicating that your rights as a data subject can be guaranteed. |
.wildlifeheritageareas.org | 1 year 1 month 4 days 13 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds |
| ai_session Purpose: This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique anonymous session identifier cookie. |
www.wildlifeheritageareas.org | 29 minutes 56 seconds |
| ai_user Purpose: This cookie name is associated with the Microsoft Application Insights software, which collects statistical usage and telemetry information for apps built on the Azure cloud platform. This is a unique user identifier cookie enabling counting of the number of users accessing the application over time. |
www.wildlifeheritageareas.org | 11 months 4 weeks 2 days 9 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds |
Functional
| Cookie | Domain | Expiry |
| .EPiForm_BID Purpose: This cookie identifies the form submission made to the site when a visitor submits data via an Episerver form. Stores a GUID as the browser ID. |
www.wildlifeheritageareas.org | 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 3 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds |
| .EPiForm_VisitorIdentier Purpose: Keeps track of the current user and makes it possible to link a submitted form to a specific user. |
www.wildlifeheritageareas.org | 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 3 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Purpose: This cookie allows YouTube to check bandwidth usage. |
.youtube.com | 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours 59 minutes 57 seconds |
| vuid Purpose: This is a cookie from Vimeo used for the video player on our website. |
.vimeo.com | 1 year 1 month 4 days 13 hours 59 minutes 58 seconds |
| YSC Purpose: Register unique IDs and keep statistics on which videos users have viewed from YouTube. |
.youtube.com | Session |
Advertising
| Cookie | Domain | Expiry |
| __Secure-YEC Purpose: These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising. |
.youtube.com | Session |
| _clck Purpose: Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID. |
.wildlifeheritageareas.org | 11 months 4 weeks 2 days 9 hours 59 minutes 56 seconds |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA Purpose: This cookie is used to track and enrich the users privacy settings on YouTube. |
.youtube.com | 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours 59 minutes 57 seconds |
Unclassified
| Cookie | Domain | Expiry |
| __Secure-YNID | .youtube.com | 5 months 3 weeks 6 days 21 hours 59 minutes 57 seconds |
| EPiStateMarker | www.wildlifeheritageareas.org | Session |
| is | .wildlifeheritageareas.org | 29 minutes |
| iv | .wildlifeheritageareas.org | 1 year 1 month 4 days 13 hours 59 minutes 55 seconds |
9. Other websites
This privacy policy only covers the Wildlife Heritage Areas website. Any other websites which may be linked to by the Website may be subject to their own privacy policy, which may differ from ours and we are not responsible for the content provided on any third-party web sites.