Cookie Policy

Updated May 2018

We use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, mobile device IDs and similar files or technologies to collect and store the information we automatically collect about your computer, device, and use of the www.nesst.org [Website]. You can find out more about cookies and how to control them in the information below.

If you do not accept the use of these cookies, please disable them using the instructions in this cookie policy, by following the 'opt-out' links provided below or by changing your browser settings so that cookies from the Website cannot be placed on your computer or mobile device.

What Is a Cookie?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a certain webpage. Cookies are then sent back to the originating webpage on each subsequent visit, or to another webpage that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are widely used in order to make the Website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the Website.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited the Website before or whether you are a new visitor.

There are two broad categories of cookies:

• First party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device.
• Third party cookies, which are served by a third party on our behalf. We use third party cookies for functionality and performance/analytics purposes.

NESsT’s Website is hosted by Squarespace, a third-party Website hosting and management platform. Squarespace is the technical provider of the cookies implemented on NESsT’s Website. Squarespace uses cookies to track user interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how users use our Website. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve our Website. The reports disclose Website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can learn more about Squarespace’s cookie policy and opt out at www.squarespace.com/cookie-policy.

Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are 'session cookies', meaning that they exist only while your browser is open. These are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are 'permanent cookies', meaning that they survive after your browser is closed. They can be used by the Website to recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again.

How Do We Use Cookies?

What Types of Cookies Do We Use?

The types of cookies used by us in connection with the Website can be classified into one of three categories:

• Essential and Functional Cookies
• Analytics and Performance Cookies
• Social Media Cookies

You may opt out of cookies at any time by following the instructions provided in the next session "How to Control or Delete Cookies" (see below).

Essential and Functional Cookies

Essential cookies are required to provide you with the Website and any services available through this Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like transactional pages and secure login accounts, would not be possible.

Functional cookies record information about choices you've made and allow us to tailor the Website to you. These cookies mean that when you continue to use or come back to the Website, we can provide you with our services as you have asked for them to be provided. For example, these cookies allow us to: 

• Remember settings you have applied, such as layout, text size, preferences, and colors;
• Show you when you are logged in; and
• Store accessibility options.

Squarespace serves the following cookies on our behalf to allow you to navigate and use key features on our site. 

1. Cookie Name: Crumb  |  Duration: Session  |  Purpose: Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF). CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browser into taking unwanted action in an application when someone’s logged in.
2. Cookie Name: RecentRedirect  |  Duration: 30 minutes  |  Purpose: Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects.
3. Cookie Name: Locked  |  Duration: Session  |  Purpose: Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.
4. Cookie Name: squarespace-popup-overlay  |  Duration: Persistent  |  Purpose: Prevents the Promotional Pop-Up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it
5. Cookie Name: squarespace-announcement-bar  |  Duration: Persistent  |  Purpose: Prevents the Announcement Bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We use analytics and performance cookies to analyze how our Website is accessed, used or is performing in order to provide you with a better user experience and to maintain, operate and continually improve the Website. For example, these cookies allow us to: 

• Better understand our Website visitors so that we can improve how we present our content;
• Test different design ideas for particular pages, such as our homepage;
• Collect information about Website visitors such as where they are located and what browsers they are using;
• Determine the number of unique users of the Website; and
• Improve the Website by measuring any errors that occur.

Squarespace serves the following Analytics and Performance cookies on our behalf to collect information about how visitors interact with our Website. 

1. Cookie Name: ss_cid  |  Duration: 2 years  |  Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
2. Cookie Name: ss_cvr  | Duration: 2 years  | Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
3. Cookie Name: ss_cvisit  |  Duration: 30 minutes  |  Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
4. Cookie Name: ss_cvt  |  Duration: 30 minutes  |  Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
5. Cookie Name: ss_cpvisit  |  Duration: 2 years  |  Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
6. Cookie Name: ss_cookieAllowed  |  Duration: 30 days  |  Purpose: Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies

Social Media Cookies

On some pages of our Website, third parties that provide applications through our Website may set their own anonymous cookies in order to track the success of their applications or customize applications for you. For example, when you share an article using a social media sharing button on our Website (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest), the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this. Because of how cookies work, we cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by us. Some pages of our Website may also contain embedded content, such as video content from YouTube, and these sites may set their own cookies.

How to Control or Delete Cookies