Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites you visit. Cookies allow us to identify you (or, more accurately, your computer) when you visit our website. Knowing how often people are visiting each page of our website helps us work out how and where to improve our website.

Our website uses a mix of necessary and non-essential (performance) cookies. While the essential cookies are needed to make the site functions properly, you can set your preferences for the non-essential cookies by using our cookie preferences tool. This will appear automatically the first time you visit our site or if you open up our site in a private web browser. You can also find it at any point in the website footer.

This cookie policy is part of our Privacy Policy.

There are different categories of cookies:

Necessary cookies help make our 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 and you cannot disable these cookies through the preference settings on our site. You can disable these by changing your browser settings, though this will result in some parts of our website not working.

Functional cookies enable us to enhance the functionality of our website, for example by providing you with a more personalised experience based on previous preferences you may have selected or your previous visits. You can disable these cookies through the preference settings on our site or your browser settings however this may result in some parts of the website not working properly.

Persistent cookies and session cookies

Persistent cookies remain on a visitor’s device for a set amount of time. This means for example that we can identify when a site visitor is a repeat visitor or new to us.

Session cookies are created temporarily and last for as long as your browser window is open, being automatically deleted after you close your browser. These allow us to link the actions of a user during a visit to the website, to provide a consistent experience.

First party cookies and third-party cookies

First-party cookies are set directly by our website.

Third-party cookies are set by another website, usually because we have incorporated elements from those other sites into our site (for example videos or social media plugins).

Details about the cookies we use on instituteforsmallideas.org are set out below. Some of these are third-party cookies. We use different cookies for nesta.org.uk which you can find in the dedicated cookie policy for that website.

First-party cookies

• yrpri.sid: Cookie that keeps you signed in as you move around the site. Contains a session identifier used by the server to retrieve your session and recognise your account. Necessary for login. Expires after 24 hours.
• aws-waf-token: Amazon Web Services cookie that verifies you are a real user (rather than an automated bot) after completing a security challenge, allowing subsequent requests to process without re-challenging. Contains an encrypted, opaque token and is only set for visitors outside of the UK.

Third party cookies

This website uses cookies provided by other organisations to support video embeds. These are third-party cookies. You can read privacy policies from these third parties below:

• YouTube cookies: used to embed videos and provide video elements on websites. Read YouTube’s privacy policy.

If you want, you can block cookies by changing the settings on your browser – we have set out below links to the help pages of some major browsers which explain how you can do this. Blocking the cookies we use may have an adverse impact on the presentation of some or all of our website. General guidance on how to manage your cookies can be found here:

Your Online Choices

Specific guidance on how to manage cookie options for common website browsers can be found here:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari
• Internet Explorer
• Microsoft Edge