This is our Cookies Policy and applies to use of this website. You can read the Foundation’s full Privacy Policy here.
This Cookies Policy sets out how The Baring Foundation (“we”, “our”, “us”, the “Foundation”) uses cookies and other tracking technologies through our website. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected, and this website respects any consent you have given via our ‘Manage Cookies’ page, or the cookie banner which is displayed at the bottom of the page when you visit our website. This Cookies Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal information.
If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy, please feel free to contact us using the details set out in the ‘Contact Us’ section at the bottom of this policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files with small pieces of data – like a username and password – that are used to identify a user’s device as you use a network. Specific cookies are used to identify specific users and improve their web browsing experience.
Data stored in a cookie is created by the server upon your connection. This data is labelled with an ID unique to you and your device. When the cookie is exchanged between your device and the network server, the server reads the ID and knows what information to specifically serve you.
Cookies serve the purpose of making our website function in more user friendly and effective ways, and to tailor the website operations to your needs and preferences, analyse website usage and generally improve your online user experience. Cookies can also provide useful data to be used in effective marketing.
You can find out more about cookies at https://www.allaboutcookies.org.
How we use cookies
If you visit our website and ‘allow all’ cookies we may collect some, or all, of the information available from cookies.
If you visit our website, we may use cookies to record information about:
- the areas of the website you visit
- the amount of time you spend on the site
- whether you are new to the site, or have visited it before
- the country, region, city and/or borough associated with your IP address or device
- how you came to our website – for example, through an email link or a search engine
- the type of device and browser you use
- how you use the website and the quality of your experience
- how you interact with our digital marketing
- any error messages that you receive on the site.
What types of cookies do we use?
The cookies that we use can have different characteristics. For example:
Session Cookies: Some of the cookies that we use are Session Cookies. These cookies enable our website to identify different requests from your browser during the same session, and your device can be recognised when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent Cookies: These cookies stay on your browser or device until they expire (after a set period, which differs depending on the specific cookie) or until you delete them from your browser history.
How are cookies collected and processed?
All cookies have an owner. You can identify the owner by looking at the domain. The domain is the company or website name in the cookie.
Cookies can be ‘first party’, which means that they’re owned by the website who set them (i.e. the Foundation). Alternatively, cookies can be ‘third-party’, which means they’re not owned by the Foundation.
The Foundation currently uses Google Analytics to collect and process third-party cookies.
What categories of cookies do we use?
Cookies are broken down into four categories. We apply ‘necessary cookies’ to a user’s device without consent because they are essential to the functionality of a website. However, for all other cookie categories we ask users for specific consent before applying them.
Here are the categories of cookies we use:
Strictly Necessary Cookies: these cookies are essential to provide you with the website and its services. Without these cookies, services such as transactional pages and secure login accounts would not be possible. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. You can set your browser to block these cookies, but this will mean our website won’t work as well.
Performance Cookies: we use performance/analytics cookies to analyse how the website is accessed, used, or is performing in order to provide you with a better user experience and to maintain, operate and continually improve the website. These are non-essential cookies that are used to improve our website. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our website and will not be able to monitor its performance.
Website statistics, analytics and personalisation
In order to improve our services to provide you with relevant content, and to analyse how visitors use our website, we use the following website analytics services.
Google Analytics: a web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about aggregated use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.
For more information, please read Google’s privacy policy. You can opt out of receiving cookies on the website for Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Managing cookies
You can accept all the cookies that we use by clicking on the ‘Accept cookies’ button on our cookie banner.
You can also opt out of all our cookies (except the strictly necessary ones) by clicking the ‘Reject All’ button on our cookie banner. If you choose to refuse all cookies, our website might not work as well.
You may also wish to restrict or block the cookies set by our website, or indeed any other website within your browser. The ‘Help’ function within your browser will tell you how, but you can also visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains information on how to do this as well as how to delete cookies. As noted above, please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of this website.
Click on the links below to find out how to change your cookie settings in specific browsers and/or on particular operating systems:
There is also software available which enables you to use settings that allow you to choose which cookies are set on your digital device, such as the Ghostery app.
Cookie List
The tables below set out the cookies and other tracking technologies we use and for what purposes:
| Strictly Necessary Cookies | |||
| Cookie name | Purpose | Provider | Duration |
| privacy-cookies | Remembers your choice of accepting or rejecting cookies | The Baring Foundation | 1 year |
| Performance Cookies | |||
| Cookie name | Purpose | Provider | Duration |
| _dc_gtm_UA-52809118-1 | Tracking user behaviour | Google Tag Manager | 1 minute |
| _gid | Tracking user behaviour | Google Analytics |
1 day |
| _ga_33K5YX6KEC | Tracking user behaviour | Google Analytics | 1 year |
| _ga | Tracking user behaviour | Google Analytics | 1 year |
Changes to this cookie policy
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Cookie Policy or any of our other policies. We will aim to notify you of any significant changes by way of a notice on our website or by contacting you directly when reasonably possible.
Contact us
If you have any questions or comments about this Cookie Policy, or privacy matters generally, please contact us via email, telephone or post:
Email: baring.foundation@ing.com
The Baring Foundation
8-10 Moorgate
London EC2R 6DA
May 2026