Cookie Policy

The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust understands and respect the importance of your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your personal information.  Please read this Cookie Policy in conjunction with our Privacy Policy.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

Cookies ensure a consistent and efficient experience for users of the site. A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are, either for a single visit or for multiple visits. 

Two types of cookies are used on this website - session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). 

Cookies will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. 

Cookies allow us to obtain information regarding users of our site which essentially helps us to provide you with a better user experience and tailor our services to your individual needs. We may collect information such as your IP address, online activity, web browser details and online activity. We will not however collect or store any of your passwords or other highly sensitive data. 

Necessary cookies.  Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Preference cookies. Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

Statistic cookies. Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

Marketing cookies. Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites.  The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.

Unclassified cookies.

Unclassified cookies are cookies that we are in the process of classifying, together with the providers of individual cookies.

You can adjust your settings by clicking on the Cookiebot widget in the bottom left hand corner of the screen and change your consent at any time.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Name 

Category 

Cookie Provider 

Purpose 

Status 

.AspNetCore.Mvc.CookieTempDataProvider 

Necessary 

rafct.com 

Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests. 

Necessary; expiry time: Session 

ARRAffinity 

Necessary 

rafct.com 

Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. 

Necessary; expiry time: Session 

ARRAffinitySameSite 

Necessary 

rafct.com 

Used to distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimise response times. 

Necessary; expiry time: Session 

CookieConsent 

Necessary 

rafct.com 

Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain 

Necessary; expiry time: 1 Year 

UMB_SESSION 

Necessary 

rafct.com 

Stores domain prefix to determine whether it holds https or http URL properties. 

Necessary; expiry time: Session 

_PCCID 

Preferences 

purechat.com 

Identifies the visitor across devices and visits, in order to optimize the chat-box function on the website. 

Preferences; expiry time: 400 days 

_purechatLocalStorageAccess 

Preferences 

prod.purechatcdn.com 

Necessary for the functionality of the website's chat-box function. 

Preferences; expiry time: Persistent 

_purechatVisitorWidgetPlaySound 

Preferences 

rafct.com 

Necessary for the functionality of the website's chat-box function. 

Preferences; expiry time: Persistent 

#-# 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. 

Marketing; expiry time: Session 

__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Unclassified 

Marketing; expiry time: 180 days 

_ga 

Marketing 

rafct.com 

Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. 

Marketing; expiry time: 2 years 

_ga_# 

Marketing 

rafct.com 

Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor's device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. 

Marketing; expiry time: 2 years 

iU5q-!O9@$ 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. 

Marketing; expiry time: Session 

LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. 

Marketing; expiry time: Session 

LogsDatabaseV2:V#||LogsRequestsStore 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. 

Marketing; expiry time: Persistent 

NID 

Marketing 

google.com 

Unclassified 

Marketing; expiry time: 6 months 

TESTCOOKIESENABLED 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. 

Marketing; expiry time: 1 day 

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Tries to estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. 

Marketing; expiry time: 180 

YSC 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. 

Marketing; expiry time: Session 

YtIdbMeta#databases 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. 

Marketing; expiry time: Persistent 

remote_sid 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Necessary for the implementation and functionality of YouTube video-content on the website. 

Marketing; expiry time: Session 

ytidb::LAST_RESULT_ENTRY_KEY 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Used to track user’s interaction with embedded content. 

Marketing; expiry time: Persistent 

yt-remote-cast-available 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. 

Marketing; expiry time: Session 

yt-remote-cast-installed 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Stores the user’s video player embedded YouTube video 

Marketing; expiry time: Session 

yt-remote-connected-devices 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video 

Marketing; expiry time Persistent 

yt-remote-device-id 

Marketing  

youtube.com 

Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video  

Marketing; expiry time: Persistent 

yt-remote-fast-check-period 

Marketing 

youtube.com 

Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video 

Marketing; expiry time: Session 

yt-remote-session-app 

marketing 

youtube.com 

Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video 

Marketing; expiry time: Session 

yt-remote-session-name 

marketing 

youtube.com 

Stores the user’s video player preferences using embedded YouTube video. 

Marketing; epxiry time: Session 

Please note this site may use cookies from third parties, over which we have no control. These may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

To deactivate the use of third-party advertising cookies, please use the cookie controls options in your browser.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire in accordance with the timescales set out in the table above.