Effective as of June 25, 2024:

This page describes the types of cookies and other technologies used by Catalyst when you visit any of our websites, including, catalyst.org, events.catalyst.org, donate.catalyst.org, and connect.catalyst.org.

What are cookies and similar technologies?
What types of cookies does Catalyst use?
How To Control and Delete Cookies

 

What are cookies and similar technologies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device, such as your computer, mobile phone or tablet, when you visit a website. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They are used to distinguish you from other website users and help the website remember information about your visit including your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another. This makes it easier to visit the site again and make the site more useful to you.

However, it’s not only cookies that can be used in this way. Functions performed by a cookie can be achieved by other means too. This Cookie Notice, therefore, also applies to any similar technology that stores or accesses information on your device. This could include, for example, HTML5 local storage, local shared objects, beacons, pixels, and plug-ins. The single term “cookies” refers to cookies and any similar technologies.

 

Third party cookies: When using our website, you may be directed to other websites for such activities as surveys, to make payments, for job applications, and to view content. Some of our pages contain embedded content such as YouTube videos, and you may receive cookies delivered from these websites. Catalyst does not have control over the placement of cookies by other websites you visit, even if you are directed to them from our website. Depending on the cookies you choose to allow some of their content may not work.

 

How To Control and Delete Cookies

 
Consent Tool: You will have been presented with the chance to accept certain cookies when you first visited our site in our Cookie Preference Centre. You can change your cookie preferences by visiting the preference centre and adjusting the toggle to ‘On’ or ‘Off’, and clicking ‘Save Settings’. Some cookies are essential cookies and cannot be turned off using the toggle. These cookies are ‘Strictly Necessary’ and are listed below. If you choose not to accept some or all of our cookies, then we will only store these ‘Strictly Necessary’ Cookies.
 
Using Your Browser: Many of the cookies used on our website can be disabled by disabling the cookies through your browser. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.
 
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
 
Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:
 

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Opera
• Apple Safari

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

 
Cookies Set in the Past

Collection of your data from our analytics cookies can be deleted. If cookies are deleted, the information collected prior to the preference change may still be used.  However, we will stop using the disabled cookie to collect any further information from your user experience. For our marketing cookie, when a user opts out of tracking, a new cookie is placed to prevent users from being tracked

 
Questions?

For more information, feel free to email our data privacy officer at [email protected].