Cookie notice

References to “our”, “us” or “we” within this Cookie notice are to Young Women’s Trust. For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, the data controller is Young Women’s Trust of Unit Unit 1.01 Wenlock Studios, 50-52 Wharf Road, London N1 7EU (registered charity number 217868). This means that we are responsible for determining how and why your personal data is processed. To learn more about how we process your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.

Like most websites, our websites use cookies to collect information. Cookies are small data files (of letters and numbers) which are placed on your computer or other devices (such as smartphones or tablets) as you browse this website.

Cookies are used to ‘remember’ when your computer or device accesses our website and to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our websites and also allows us to improve our sites.

We use the following cookies:

  • Essential cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of our websites.
  • Analytics (or performance) cookies: These cookies collect anonymised information about how and when you and other visitors use our websites, such as which pages are visited most frequently. Information collected by performance cookies is used to improve how our website works and to enhance your experience on the website, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily, to find out what kind of content users are interested in.
  • Marketing cookies: These cookies record your visit to our websites, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. This information is used by third third parties to make advertising more relevant to your interests. We note that opting out of marketing cookies will not remove advertising but will make it less relevant to you.

Cookies are stored for different periods of time on your computer or device depending on whether they are “session cookies” or “persistent cookies”.

  • Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser or leave the website. They are only stored on your computer or device for that browser session or website visit.
  • Persistent cookies are stored on your computer or device for a period of time after you close your browser or leave the website.

What cookies do we use? 

You can find out more information about the cookies we use, the purposes for which they are used and the duration of these cookies below:



Cookie name:ASP.NET_SessionId
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose:Preserves the visitor’s session state across page requests.
Duration: 1 day


Cookie name:AWSALB
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose:Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.
Duration: 1 day


Cookie name:AWSALBCORS
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose: Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.
Duration: 6 days


Cookie name: AWSALBTG
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose:Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.
Duration: 7 days


Cookie name: AWSALBTGCORS
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose:Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.
Duration: 6 days


Cookie name: AWSELB
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose: Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.
Duration: 1 day


Cookie name:AWSELBCORS
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose:Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience.
Duration: 1 day


Cookie name: CONSENT (google.com)
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose: Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. The cookie is necessary for GDPR compliance of the website.
Duration: 2 years


Cookie name: CONSENT (youtube.com)
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose: Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. The cookie is necessary for GDPR compliance of the website.
Duration: 2 years


Cookie name:CookieConsent
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose:Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain.
Duration: 1 year


Cookie name:CookieControl
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose:Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry.
Duration: 3 months


Cookie name: _GRECAPTCHA
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose: This cookie is to provide spam protection.
Duration: Session


Cookie name:NSC_#
Type of cookie:Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times.
Purpose: Essential
Duration: 1 day


Cookie name:rc::a
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose: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.
Duration: Persistent


Cookie name:rc::c
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose:This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots.
Duration: Session


Cookie name: Wf_loginalerted_*
Type of cookie: Essential
Purpose: To provide protection against hackers.
Duration: Persistent


Cookie name: _ga
Type of cookie: Analytics
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Duration: 1 day


Cookie name: _ga_*
Type of cookie: Analytics
Purpose: To store and count page views.
Duration: 1 year


Cookie name: _gat
Type of cookie: Analytics
Purpose: Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate.
Duration: 1 day


Cookie name: _gid
Type of cookie: Analytics
Purpose: Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website.
Duration: 1 day


Cookie name: _hjid
Type of cookie: Analytics
Purpose: Sets a unique ID for the session. This allows the website to obtain data on visitor behaviour for statistical purposes.
Duration: 1 year


Cookie name: collect
Type of cookie: Analytics
Purpose: Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.
Duration: Session


Cookie name: fsFonts
Type of cookie: Analytics
Purpose: This cookie contains an ID string on the current session. This contains non-personal information on what subpages the visitor enters – this information is used to optimize the visitor’s experience.
Duration: Session


Cookie name: _fbp
Type of cookie: Marketing
Purpose: To store and track visits across websites.
Duration: 3 months


Cookie name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Type of cookie: Marketing
Purpose: Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos.
Duration: 179 days


Cookie name: YSC
Type of cookie: Marketing
Purpose: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
Duration: Session


Cookie name: ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY
Type of cookie: Marketing
Purpose: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Duration: Persistent


Cookie name: yt-remote-cast-available
Type of cookie: Marketing
Purpose: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Duration: Session


Cookie name: yt-remote-cast-installed
Type of cookie: Marketing
Purpose: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Duration: Session


Cookie name: yt-remote-connected-devices
Type of cookie: Marketing
Purpose: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Duration: Persistent


Cookie name: yt-remote-device-id
Type of cookie: Marketing
Purpose: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Duration: Persistent


Cookie name: yt-remote-fast-check-period
Type of cookie: Marketing
Purpose: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Duration: Session


Cookie name: yt-remote-session-app
Type of cookie: Marketing
Purpose: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Duration: Session


Cookie name: yt-remote-session-name
Type of cookie: Marketing
Purpose: Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video.
Duration: Session



How do I change my cookie settings?

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the icon in the right hand corner of the site.

You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Your browser’s ‘help’ function will tell you how to do this. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit aboutcookies.org or allaboutcookies.org.

However, please note that if you choose to block all cookies, this may limit your ability to use our websites.

Changes to this Cookie notice

We reserve the right to change our Cookie notice from time to time. If we decide to change our Cookie Notice we will let you know by posting information on the homepage of youngwomenstrust.org.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Cookie notice, please contact us on digital@youngwomenstrust.org or at Young Women’s Trust, Unit 1.01 Wenlock Studios, 50-52 Wharf Road, London N1 7EU.