Analytics choices

We count how this site is used so we can make it better: which talks are played and for how long, how people find them, what they search for and which pages they use. You can switch this off at any time.

What we count

• Pages viewed, how you arrived (another site’s name, or a newsletter link’s campaign tag), how long a page was in use and how far down it was read.
• Plays of talks: audio or video, where the play started, how much was heard or watched, which parts were replayed or skipped, playback speed and how smoothly it played.
• Searches: what was searched for, how many results there were and which was chosen.
• Use of Sunday notes: packs, slides and questions opened, and downloads. Never what anyone writes.
• Shares, downloads and how quickly pages load.
• The kind of device, browser and operating system, such as “phone, Safari, iOS”.

What we never collect

• Your IP address, name, email address or account.
• Any identifier that could recognise you or follow you from one visit to the next, including browser fingerprinting.
• The words in your notes or journals.

There are no advertising or third-party trackers. The figures are used only by the church to improve this site, and nothing is shared with anyone else.

What is stored on your device

One entry in your browser’s storage, called glenabbey-analytics, holds the date of your last visit, the time of your last activity and roughly how many visits you’ve made. Many visitors share every possible value, so it can’t identify you. It lets us count visitors and returning visitors without recognising anyone. If you switch analytics off, the entry is removed and only your choice is kept.

Separately, your browser remembers where you got to in up to 12 talks, so a talk can carry on where you left off. It stays on your device unless you’re signed in, when it follows you to your account, and it’s cleared when you sign out.

While analytics is off, a cookie called glenabbey-analytics-choice says just “off”. Our server records searches itself, and the cookie lets it respect your choice too. It’s the same for everyone who switches off, lasts 400 days and is removed when you switch back on.

Talks and search on other websites

When a talk or our search appears on another website, such as the church’s, your browser keeps it apart from this site, so the choice you make here doesn’t reach it. Each of those has its own “Anonymous analytics” switch at the bottom, which works in the same way.

How long we keep it

Each day’s records are added up into daily totals, and the records themselves are deleted within 7 days. Only the totals are kept. Small numbers about members and Notes are shown as “fewer than 5”.

Who can see it

Only the site’s administrators. Search words can contain personal details, so they are never published.

Your browser’s privacy signal

If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, we treat it as switching analytics off. The switch above works whatever your browser does.

Why there’s no cookie banner

The law allows a site to count its own use for statistics, to improve the site, without asking first, as long as it explains what it does and makes it easy to say no. That is what this page is for. The cookie that remembers you’ve switched analytics off doesn’t need your consent either: it only keeps the choice you made. See the privacy notice for everything else, or email [email protected] with any question.