Cookie Policy
Warwickshire NARPO Branch
Last updated: July 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how the Warwickshire Branch of the National Association of Retired Police Officers (“Warwickshire NARPO”, “the Branch”, “we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on this website.
Some cookies are essential for the website, member login and security functions to work. Other cookies, including analytics and certain third-party cookies, are optional and will only be used where you have given the required consent.
You do not consent to optional cookies merely by continuing to browse the website. Where optional cookies are used, you should be given a clear opportunity to accept or reject them.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites place on your computer, tablet, mobile telephone or other device when you visit them.
Cookies can be used to:
- Enable essential website functions.
- Keep you signed in to a secure members’ area.
- Protect the website and member accounts against misuse.
- Remember preferences or choices you have made.
- Understand how visitors use the website.
- Enable content or services supplied by another organisation.
Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser. These are commonly called session cookies. Others remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them. These are commonly called persistent cookies.
Similar technologies, including local storage, scripts, tags and tracking pixels, may perform functions similar to cookies. References to cookies in this policy include these technologies where appropriate.
2. Essential and optional cookies
Essential cookies
Essential cookies are required to provide the website or a service that you have requested. They may be used to:
- Operate secure member login and account functions.
- Maintain a logged-in session.
- Protect forms and accounts against spam or unauthorised access.
- Enable website navigation and basic functions.
- Remember your cookie consent preferences.
- Maintain website and server security.
These cookies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary to provide the service requested or to transmit communications securely.
Please note: Essential cookies cannot normally be disabled using the website’s consent controls. You may block them through your browser, but doing so could prevent the members’ area, forms, security features or other parts of the website from working correctly.
Optional cookies
Optional cookies are not necessary for the website’s essential functions. These may include:
- Analytics and performance cookies.
- Non-essential functionality cookies.
- Cookies used by embedded videos, maps or social-media services.
- Advertising or tracking cookies, if any are introduced in the future.
Optional cookies should remain disabled unless and until you choose to accept the relevant category.
3. Categories of cookies we may use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies support essential website functions and may be used without consent where the applicable legal exemption applies.
They may support:
- WordPress website administration and security.
- Secure member login.
- User authentication and session management.
- Password-reset functions.
- Form security and spam prevention.
- Remembering cookie preferences.
Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies allow the website to remember choices or preferences that are not essential to provide the core service.
They may be used to remember:
- Display or accessibility preferences.
- Selected website settings.
- Information entered into a form during a browsing session.
- Preferences associated with an optional embedded service.
Where a functionality cookie is not strictly necessary, it will only be set after the appropriate consent has been obtained.
Analytics and performance cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how people use the website. Information collected may include:
- Which pages are visited.
- How visitors arrived at the website.
- How long visitors spend on particular pages.
- General browser, device and operating-system information.
- Approximate location information derived from an IP address.
- Website errors and performance information.
Where an analytics service such as Google Analytics is active, its cookies and scripts will be treated as optional and should not be loaded until the visitor has consented.
Analytics information may be aggregated or pseudonymised, but this does not automatically make the cookies exempt from the consent requirements.
Third-party and embedded-content cookies
Some website pages may contain content or services provided by another organisation, such as:
- Embedded videos.
- Interactive maps.
- Social-media content.
- External forms or booking services.
- Security or spam-prevention services.
These providers may place or access cookies when their content is loaded. Where those cookies are not essential, the relevant content or service should remain blocked until you consent.
Simply following a normal link to another website does not usually cause that external website to set cookies through the Warwickshire NARPO website. Once you visit an external website, however, that organisation’s own privacy and cookie policies will apply.
4. Cookies that may be present on this website
The precise cookies present can vary depending on whether you are logged in, which page you visit, which services are enabled and the choices you make through the cookie banner.
| Cookie or service | Provider | Purpose | Typical duration | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress_logged_in_* | Warwickshire NARPO / WordPress | Recognises a logged-in website user and enables access to authorised website functions. | Usually the browser session or the selected login period. | Essential |
| wordpress_sec_* | Warwickshire NARPO / WordPress | Supports secure authentication for logged-in users and website administrators. | Usually the browser session or the selected login period. | Essential |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Warwickshire NARPO / WordPress | Checks whether the visitor’s browser accepts cookies so that login functions can operate. | Session. | Essential |
| wp-settings-* | Warwickshire NARPO / WordPress | Stores interface and administration preferences for a logged-in WordPress user. | Usually up to one year. | Functional |
| wp-settings-time-* | Warwickshire NARPO / WordPress | Supports the storage of WordPress interface preferences. | Usually up to one year. | Functional |
| Cookie consent preference | Warwickshire NARPO / cookie consent provider | Records whether you accepted or rejected optional cookie categories so that the website can remember your choice. | According to the consent system’s configured duration. | Essential |
| Form or security cookies | Warwickshire NARPO or its security provider | Protects website forms, login functions and member accounts against spam, automated submissions and unauthorised access. | Session or a limited security period. | Essential |
| _ga | Google Analytics, where enabled | Distinguishes website visitors and supports website usage statistics. | Typically up to two years, depending on the configured retention period. | Analytics |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics, where enabled | Maintains and measures a website analytics session. | Typically up to two years, depending on the configured retention period. | Analytics |
| Embedded-content cookies | Relevant third-party provider, where used | Enables optional content such as videos, maps, external forms or social-media features. | Varies by provider. | Third party |
Important: The table should reflect the services actually active on the website. If Google Analytics or any other listed service is not installed, the corresponding entry should be removed. If another plugin or embedded service sets cookies, it should be added to this table.
5. Cookie consent and your choices
When you first visit the website, a cookie banner should provide controls that allow you to:
- Accept optional cookies.
- Reject optional cookies.
- Manage individual cookie categories, where available.
Rejecting optional cookies should be as straightforward as accepting them. Optional cookies should not be set before you make a positive choice.
Essential cookies may still be used because they are required to operate the website, maintain security or provide a service that you have requested.
Your choice will not affect core access: Rejecting analytics and other optional cookies should not prevent you from reading public pages or using essential member account functions.
You may withdraw or change your consent at any time by reopening the website’s cookie settings. Withdrawing consent does not make earlier processing unlawful, but optional cookies should no longer be used after your preference has been updated.
If the website does not currently display a permanent cookie-settings link or button, browser controls can still be used to delete stored cookies. However, a website control should be provided where a consent-management system is active.
6. Managing cookies through your browser
Most browsers allow you to view, block or delete cookies through their privacy or security settings.
You may be able to:
- Delete cookies that have already been stored.
- Block all cookies.
- Block third-party cookies.
- Allow cookies only from selected websites.
- Configure the browser to delete cookies when it closes.
- Receive a warning before a cookie is stored.
The precise controls vary between browsers and devices. Please refer to your browser’s help or privacy settings for instructions.
Please note: Blocking all cookies may prevent secure login, the members’ area, forms and other important website functions from operating correctly.
7. Google Analytics
Where Google Analytics is enabled, it may be used to provide aggregated information about website use and performance.
Google Analytics may process information including:
- Cookie identifiers.
- IP address and approximate geographical information.
- Browser and device information.
- Pages visited and interactions with those pages.
- Referral and campaign information.
Google Analytics must remain disabled until the visitor has accepted analytics cookies through the website’s consent mechanism.
Where Google Analytics is used, the Branch should configure available privacy settings appropriately, including suitable data-retention periods and restrictions on unnecessary advertising or data-sharing features.
Further information about Google’s processing practices is available through Google’s own privacy documentation.
8. External websites
The website contains links to websites operated by National NARPO and other organisations.
When you follow a link to an external website, that organisation may use its own cookies and similar technologies. Warwickshire NARPO does not control cookies placed directly by an external website.
You should review the privacy and cookie information provided by the relevant organisation.
9. Personal information collected through cookies
Some cookie identifiers and technical information may constitute personal data under UK data-protection law, particularly where the information can be connected with a device, website account or individual.
Where personal information is processed through cookies or similar technologies, it will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Notice.
The Privacy Notice explains:
- Who is responsible for personal information.
- The purposes and lawful bases for processing.
- Who information may be shared with.
- How long information is retained.
- Your data-protection rights.
- How to contact us or make a complaint.
10. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when:
- The website’s functionality changes.
- New plugins or external services are introduced.
- Existing cookies are removed or changed.
- Our consent-management system changes.
- Applicable laws or regulatory guidance change.
The latest version will be published on this page and the “Last updated” date will be amended.
Where a significant change affects the choices available to visitors, the website may ask you to review your cookie preferences again.
11. Contact us
For questions about this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies on the Warwickshire NARPO website, please contact:
You may also contact National NARPO about its own website and national membership systems:
38 Bond Street
Wakefield
WF1 2QP
Email: dpo@narpo.org