Cookie notice
What this website stores in your browser, why, and how to change your choice.
1. What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. Cookies cannot read your files, run programs or see what you do on other websites. They are used to remember a choice you have made, or to keep a logged-in person signed in.
This website also uses similar technologies. Browser local storage works in the same way as a cookie: it stores a small item in your browser, and we read it back when the page needs it. The difference is that local storage is not sent to us with every request, and it is not shared between websites.
This notice covers cookies, local storage and similar technologies used by this website. "You" means the person using the device that opened the page.
2. Why we need permission
The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, known as PECR, control cookies and similar technologies used for tracking and for storing information on your device.
- Strictly necessary storage. Regulation 22 allows a website to store and read information on your device where that is needed for the site to work, or to comply with a legal duty. We do not need your consent for this, because without it the site cannot function.
- Everything else needs consent. Under regulation 6, any other storage or reading of information on your device needs your consent. Consent has to be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous, and it has to be as easy to refuse as it is to accept.
So we use two legal bases only: strictly necessary storage under regulation 22, and your consent under regulation 6 for the two things that need it.
3. Everything this website stores
| What it is | What it does | How long it lasts | Consent needed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrator session cookie | Keeps a signed-in administrator signed in to the admin panel. It is set only when an administrator signs in. Visitors are never given it, and it is marked as secure and restricted to this site | Until the administrator signs out, closes the browser, or is signed out automatically after 60 minutes of inactivity | No. Strictly necessary under regulation 22 |
| Cookie choice, in browser local storage | Remembers your answer to the consent banner, so that you are not asked again on every visit | Until you clear your browsing data for this website | No. Strictly necessary under regulation 22 |
| Community Live Hub headline cache, in browser local storage | Holds the headlines we have already fetched, so the Hub can be shown for 24 hours without asking a third party for them again. It holds headlines only, and nothing about you | 24 hours, then it is replaced | It is written only after you accept, and it is kept only if you accept. It holds no information about you and cannot be used to track you |
| Google Fonts | After you accept cookies, the site loads the fonts Cormorant Garamond, Inter and Noto Sans Bengali from Google. Your browser sends your IP address and technical details to Google when it does this | Each time a page is opened | Yes. Consent under regulation 6 |
| Public RSS proxy service | After you accept cookies, the site asks a public RSS proxy service to fetch public RSS and Atom feeds, so that the Community Live Hub can show current headlines. The proxy service and the publishers receive the request | Each time the 24 hour cache expires | Yes. Consent under regulation 6 |
There is nothing else. No advertising cookies, no analytics cookies, no tracking pixels, no social media cookies and no cross-site cookies. The small letter badge shown beside each Live Hub headline is drawn on your own screen by the website itself, so it does not call any outside service.
4. How the consent banner works
- When you first visit, a banner appears at the top of the page. It explains that the fonts and the live headlines would send requests to Google and to the RSS proxy service.
- You have two choices. Accept allows the Google Fonts and the live headlines. Reject allows only the storage the site needs to run, and nothing more.
- Nothing is pre-selected, and the site works either way. There is no cookie banner that hides the rest of the page.
- Your choice is saved in your browser so that you are not asked again. We do not use your choice to send you advertising, and we do not build a profile of you from it.
5. What happens if you say no
- The site uses the fonts already on your own device instead of loading Google Fonts.
- The Community Live Hub shows an offline snapshot of headlines that is saved with the website itself. It does not update, and no request is made to any third party service.
- Nothing else changes. Every page, form and link works exactly as it does for someone who has accepted.
Until you accept, no information about your visit is sent to Google or to any other third party. When you decline, the small letter badge beside each headline is drawn on your own screen, so nothing is requested from outside the website.
6. What this website does not do
- No analytics or audience measurement scripts.
- No advertising, and no advertising cookies.
- No tracking pixels, beacons, tags or device fingerprinting.
- No social media embeds, like buttons or share widgets.
- No cross-site tracking, and no advertising profile of you.
- No selling or sharing of your browsing data.
7. Other websites you visit
We link to other websites, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, government pages, the BBC and other charity websites. Those links are plain links and not embedded content, so they set no cookies while you are on our site.
When you follow a link, you are on someone else's website. Their own cookie notice and privacy notice apply to you from that point on. We do not control those websites and we are not responsible for how they handle your information.
The Donate button opens a small box where you choose email or WhatsApp. If you choose email, your own email application opens and this website sends nothing. If you choose WhatsApp, a WhatsApp page opens in a new tab and WhatsApp applies its own cookie notice there. This website sets no WhatsApp cookie either way.
This button is safe to use at any time. It clears your saved choice, shows the banner again and lets you pick Accept or Reject. Nothing else on the site changes.
8. Changing your choice and controlling cookies
You can change your mind at any time. The quickest way is the button on this page, marked "Change my cookie choice". Press it and the banner will appear again, then choose Accept or Reject. Your new choice is saved and the page updates to match it. You can also clear the site data for www.lcbmcr.co.uk in your browser and reload the page, and the banner will appear again. In Chrome and Edge, open the padlock or tune icon in the address bar and choose "Cookies and site data". In Firefox, open the shield icon in the address bar and choose "Cookies and site data". In Safari, open "Settings" and then "Privacy and Security".
Your browser can also block or delete cookies and local storage for this website. If you block storage completely, the banner choice cannot be remembered, so the banner will appear on every visit, and the admin panel will not work for administrators. The public pages of the website are unaffected.
The Community Live Hub cache clears itself after 24 hours, and the administrator session cookie disappears when the administrator signs out or closes the browser.
9. Questions and contact
If you have a question about cookies or similar technologies on this website, or if you want to make a data protection request, contact us.
- LCB Manchester, also known as Language and Culture of Bangladesh
- Registered address: 2 Earl Walk, Manchester M12 4HL
- Email: info@lcbmcr.co.uk
- Website: www.lcbmcr.co.uk
- Registered charity number: [CHARITY NUMBER]
- Information Commissioner's Office registration number: [ICO REGISTRATION NUMBER], if we are required to register. If we are not, we do not need one and we will say so here.
Our privacy notice explains the personal information we hold, why we hold it and the rights you have over it.
Our terms of use for this website are published on the Terms and Conditions page. Where we refer to those terms in this notice and in our privacy notice, we call them "these terms".
Last updated 6 November 2026