Cookies Policy

Thank you for visiting the Be Free To Sing® website.  This Cookies Policy applies to the domains (collectively known as the "website") owned by Be Free To Sing of Victoria, Australia (hereafter referred to as 'BFTS'):

This Cookies Policy provides further information on the cookies used on the website and the decisions you can make regarding these cookies.  If you do not agree with this Cookies Policy or any other agreement that governs your use of BFTS services, you should not use the BFTS website and its services.

For details of how BFTS collects and manages your personal information, please see the Privacy Policy.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are served through websites and stored on your computer/device via your browser. Cookies can make website pages load more efficiently, help personalise your experience as you navigate through a website, and remember your preferences when you visit the website again.  The types of cookies are:

  • Session Cookies: These cookies contain an identifier (a randomly-generated string of letters and numbers) that a website server sends to a browser for temporary use during a limited timeframe.
  • Persistent Cookies: These cookies are stored on a computer/device via the browser to remember information such as website visitor preferences, settings and other information for future visits to that website. These cookies remain on the computer/device where they were stored until they expire (eg one year later) or are removed manually.
  • First-party Cookies: These cookies are stored on your computer/device by the website you visit.
  • Third-party Cookies: These cookies are stored on your computer/device, not by the website you are visiting, but by a third-party service such as a social networking platform, an advertiser or an analytics system.

2. How are cookies used on this website?

Required

  • Session Cookie: A first-party session cookie containing non-personally identifiable information is stored in a temporary memory location on your browser.  The purpose of this cookie is for the connection between your browser and the website server.  It gives the BFTS website a short-term memory of your interactions with the website during your current visit. The cookie is deleted once you close your browser.
  • Consent Cookies: These first-party persistent cookies are stored on your computer/device once you have made a decision about your cookie consent preferences, which you can change at any time.  The cookies contain non-personally identifiable information that keep track of the decision you have made about whether or not other cookies will be stored on your computer/device via your browser. Deleting these cookies will display the Cookies Policy Notification Bar at the bottom of the page again.

Optional

  • Social Media Cookies: By default, no social media buttons to share BFTS website content (eg blog articles) on social networking platforms will be displayed until you have made a decision to accept these third-party session and/or persistent cookies being stored on your computer/device once you click on one or more of these social media buttons. Social media buttons displayed on the BFTS website are provided for your convenience only, to help make it easier for you to share BFTS website content on these social networking platforms.

    Enabling these cookies will also allow you to view any videos that may be embedded from their social networking platforms on BFTS web pages. For example, if accepted, a social media cookie may be stored by YouTube to measure the views of a YouTube video embedded on a BFTS web page that may be of interest to you.

    BFTS has no control over or responsibility for these cookies as they are stored on your computer/device by the social networking platforms and not the BFTS website.

BFTS encourages you to be aware of the personally and non-personally identifiable information collected and managed by third-party services by reading the policies on their websites:

The BFTS website does not use analytical cookies to track visitors' usage of the website and does not use targeted advertising cookies that deliver (personalised) third-party ads on the website.

Cookies served through this website

A session cookie containing non-personally identifiable information has been stored in a temporary memory location on your browser.  This will be deleted once you close your browser.

Persistent cookies are currently disabled.  This decision can be reversed by you at any time by clicking the allow button below.

When displayed on any page of this website you can also adjust your cookie consent preferences via the Cookies Policy Notification Bar at the bottom of the page or by clicking the Cookies Manager (small padlock) icon at the bottom left of the page.

3. How do I manage or delete cookies?

First-party persistent cookies stored by the BFTS website on your computer/device via the browser can be managed or deleted by the following methods, when available to access:

  • Cookies Policy Notification Bar at the bottom of the page;
  • Cookies Manager (small padlock) icon at the bottom left of the page; and/or
  • buttons at the end of Cookies served through this website table displayed above.

Third-party cookies (eg the social media cookies set by social networking platforms) can be managed or deleted through your browser settings - see the 'Help' section of your browser for how to do this or visit www.aboutcookies.org for further information.  The same browser-specific methods apply to managing or deleting first-party cookies.

If you have visited this website using different browsers, remember to follow the above-mentioned steps to manage or delete cookies in each of those browsers.

Note that if you remove the required cookies used by the BFTS website, this may impact your experience while on the BFTS website.

4. Changes to this Cookies Policy

BFTS reserves the right to make amendments and corrections to this Cookies Policy at any time. Please review this page from time to time to check for new and updated information.

5. Cookies Policy enquiries

If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy, please get in touch at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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