Information supplied by cookies help us understand our online visitors, and help provide you with a better experience. For example, if on a previous visit you went to our exhibition
ticket page, we might find this out from your cookies, and in the future be able to highlight new exhibitions that you may be interested in learning more about. Types of cookies we use include:
Essential / strictly necessary cookies
Some cookies are essential so you can move around the website(s) and use its features. Without these cookies, services you've asked for can't be provided. These cookies don't gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remember where you've been on the internet. If you don’t want us to use cookies, some parts of the site will not work, for example webpages to keep you logged in during your visit, and when you add something to your online shopping basket.
Functionality cookies
Functionality cookies remember choices you make to improve your online experience, such as recently viewed pages, and enabling social media components, like Facebook and Twitter.
Performance cookies (for analytics)
These cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited. They keep track of what pages and links are popular and are performing well so we can make improvements and measure the effectiveness of our marketing communications.
Third party cookies
We use a number of suppliers such as Google, Facebook, YouTube and email service providers who also set cookies on our website(s) on its behalf in order to deliver the services that they are providing. These cookies are placed on our website, and may collect information about your online behavior, such as your IP address, the website you arrived from, and what you may have previously purchased from us. If you would like more information about the cookies used by these suppliers, as well as information on how to opt-out, please see their individual privacy policies.
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why.
Name of cookie |
Owner |
Purpose |
Duration |
JSESSIONID |
National Gallery Company |
This cookie is used to identify you as a user between page loads. This allows us to remember certain settings, like which part of the website you were using before you were asked to sign in or register. This cookie is destroyed each time you close your browser. |
Session (cookie expires at the end of the session when you close your browser) |
__utma,
__utmz |
Google |
Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of our website and compile reports for us on activity.
Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. 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. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. By using the News App, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
How to reject or delete these cookies
http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html |
Session (cookie expires at the end of the session when you close your browser) |
Facebook |
Facebook |
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends.
Facebook’s social plugin the ‘LIKE’ button is embedded into most of the pages on our website. There are several cookies coming from Facebook, while we are unable to list all of them, we can confirm the domain is “facebook.com” for all of them.
For more information, visit Facebook’s Cookie Policy |
Session (cookie expires at the end of the session when you close your browser) |
