Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Cookies in Use

This page lists the cookies that are used on the Queen Mother Theatre (QMT) website and what they are for. This information applies to the queenmothertheatre.org.uk and qmt.org.uk domains.

The site uses both session (expires when browser is closed) and persistent (expires after a defined period, or when manually deleted) cookies.

Essential

Cookies that are “strictly necessary” for the functioning of the site.

• Our booking site (booking.qmt.org.uk) requires the use of cookies and the site won’t work as expected without them. These cookies are set when you submit a form, log in or interact with the site by doing something that goes beyond clicking on simple links.

Information updated: 2nd September 2019 – reviewed on April 2022