Cookies
Our websites
This Cookie Policy relates to your use of the Wellcome Collection websites (https://wellcomecollection.org).
When you choose to accept or reject cookies on one of our websites, your choices are valid for that website only. If you click through to another website, whether operated by us (including Wellcome Trust or Wellcome Funding) or a third party you will need to make separate choices in relation to the cookies that you would like to accept or reject on that other website.
For more information as to how Wellcome uses your information, please see our Privacy Policy.
What are cookies?
Like most organisations, Wellcome uses cookies, and similar technologies such as tracking pixels (referred to in this policy together as "cookies"), to capture information about our website users (referred to as "you"). A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is downloaded onto your computer or device by a website, stored and used to send information back to that website.
Cookies help to make websites work. They can also improve the performance of a site and some provide information to the owners of the site.
Cookies do not store or collect information about you like your name. But they do collect information that relates to, for example, the devices you use to access the internet and your browsing history.
What cookies do we use?
Cookies that measure website use: these allow us to count your visits to the website, and to see how you move around it. This helps us to provide you with a good experience while you browse, for example by helping to make sure you can find what you need. It also allows us to improve the way the website works.
Cookies that help with our communications and marketing: we will use these to measure how you are interacting with our marketing and advertising materials, and the effectiveness of our campaigns.
We may use targeting cookies to understand your interests and show you relevant adverts about us on other websites you visit. This includes social networks, such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Research Gate.
Targeting our adverts means they’re more effective and enable us to reach a diverse and wide-ranging audience.
Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are necessary for our website to function and therefore cannot be switched off. We use them for things like remembering your privacy settings, or information that you enter into an online form.
First party cookies: These are cookies that Wellcome sets when you visit our website.
Third party cookies: These are cookies that are used by third parties other than Wellcome. They include advertising partners and social media providers, such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Research Gate, and we may use these to serve advertisements about our work across the internet.
Cookies consent and changing preferences
We will ask for your consent to place cookies on your computer or device, except where they are essential to make our website work.
You can withdraw your consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences by changing your cookie settings. This page can also be accessed by clicking on "Manage cookies" in the footer of our websites. You can then adjust the slider buttons to "on" or "off" and save. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.
We will ask you to revisit your preferences if you haven't visited our websites in over six months, so that we can check that they are accurate.
Cookies we use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are necessary for our website to function and therefore cannot be switched off. We use them for things like remembering your privacy settings, or information that you enter into an online form.