Guide to the CTE website and cookie policy

Welcome to the website of Churches Together in England. We hope you quickly find what you are looking for.

There is a great deal of information on these pages. We have tried to arrange it so that most things are just three clicks away. This page explains how we arranged the website structure. (NEW - cookie policy at the bottom of this page)

Gateway pages

To help you find individual pages we have produced various 'Gateway' pages. Each Gateway page has several windows, - just like the main home page. Each window has a section theme and list of pages. See, for example Local Ecumenism Gateway page.

'Script and link' pages

Where we need to explain, you will find some pages read as a script, with a live web link for each topic described. This page is an example of a 'script and link' page.

National / regional / local Churches Together
Churches Together in England links the national network together. Regionally, Churches Together is served by the 'Intermediate Bodies', which generally operate at a county level. All over England cities, towns and villages have their own Churches Together Groups. Though national, our website seeks to serve the churches working together in England at all levels. More information for local groups is available however, so we provide a list of regional websites of Churches Together.

Special interest areas

A sizeable part of the work of Churches Together in England is conducted by staff who have a special interest. These include Interfaith, Evangelisation and Minority Ethnic Christian Affairs. There are a large number of specialist interest areas in Churches Together in England - each helping the churches in England work together for a particular concern. Each concern has an area of the website. For a full list visit our Themes page.

Working together and Common Cause

If you visted the Themes page you have seen that we distinguish between 'Working Together' and 'Common Cause'. Churches Together in England has a number of Coordinating Groups where representatives of member churches meet for a particular Theme - these come under our web area called 'Working Together'.  

In addition, many agencies and organisations have a remit to work on behalf of the churches working together, for example the Association of Inter Church Families. All the agencies and organisation, called 'Bodies in Association', that have an ecumenical remit and a formal 'association' with Churches Togetehr in England, can be found in the web area we call 'Common Cause'.

Free Churches Group

Within the family of member churches of Churches Together in England, is the Free Churches Group. This group of churches has a long tradition of working together and jointly funds significant pieces of work, noteably Free Churches Education, Healthcare Chaplaincy and Prison Chaplaincy. A formal partnership exists between FCG / CTE, so a section of the CTE website presents the FCG webpages with a blue background.

Resources

Churches Together in England is a resource for making connections in mission and unity. The website itself is a resource for information, mailings, reports and news. Although we have a shop, our intention is to provide resources free.

Developments 

In 2012 we shall continue updating the website on a daily basis. We also have the following plans:

1. Produce more Gateway pages to make information easier to find.
2. Make various papers available under 'Features'
3. Add many more copyright free images for use on local websites
4. Provide an active Archive  

In summary, our website is a resource. It's purpose is to present information. We have more than 4000 page views per day. So, welcome to our website. It is a free service provided for all.

Re Cookies on the CTE website - as at 21.08.12

This page is a report of the 'cookie policy' on the CTE website as at 21.08.12.
 

A cookie is a small piece of text sent from a website and stored in a visitors's web browser. The cookie can be retrieved by the website the next time the visitor returns, so that the website can, for example, remember saved preferences.

A new EU law means that certain types of cookies, eg those determined non essential to the running of the website, can only be set after the visitor has consented to their use.

Guidance on the rules of cookies is provided by the Information Commissioner's Office: www.ico.gov.uk/cookies.

At CTE we have looked at the guidance provided by ICO and our technical web providers: Endis: www.endis.co.uk

Endis cookies Policy

In common with most other websites, we use cookies. A cookie is a small piece of text sent from a website and stored in your web browser. The cookie can be retrieved by the website the next time you return to the website, so that the website can, for example, remember your saved preferences.

By continuing to use this website you agree to us placing cookies on your computer. Most web browsers accept cookies by default, but you can change these settings to prevent this if you wish. You should consult the documentation of your web browser for advice on how to do this.

Endis cookies used on this website

CTE website cookies

The CTE website does not have advertisers or other third party interests and we control all the web material ourselves. Neither do we use research applications or plugins that could generate extra cookies which we do not know about. Our current audit of cookie use on the CTE website therefore suggests that only essential cookies are in use to make the website work, as listed by the Endis cookie policy above. As a result, we believe our cookie policy can be 'implied consent' as all our cookies are essential to the working of the site and of low risk to the visitor.

'Implied consent' means that visitors to the CTE website are not asked to provide 'explicit consent' to cookies on our website. However, 'implied consent' does mean that visitors to the CTE website should understand that essential cookies are sent from the CTE website to the visitors web browser as a result of their visit. These cookies help the visitor return to our website, move from one page to another more quickly, access information and other essential features of the website. They also assist the website in storing details when visitors wish to login, and they count the number of visitors we have to the site. Only details supplied by the visitor are stored on the CTE website and no third parties use cookies on our website.

We shall regularly review this policy and change as necessary to further comply with new guidelines and directives.

Jim Currin, CTE web manager. jim.currin@cte.org.uk