Cookies.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to block and delete cookies, please visit the ICO website.
3. WHY WE USE COOKIES
3.1 We use Cookies to improve your experience of our Site.
3.2 Cookies do many things such as enabling you to navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences and making the interaction between you and our Site faster and easier. For example, Cookies enable you to remain logged into our Site – without Cookies, you would have to log into our Site each time you visited it.
3.3 Some websites also use Cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based on your location and / or browsing habits.
4. TYPES OF COOKIES WE USE
4.1 We use the following types of Cookies: (a) Security: These Cookies allow us to promote security on our Site, (b) Analytics: We track Site traffic patterns so we can identify popular Site content and potential Site problems, (c) Site features: We measure how visitors use our Site so we can optimise the web pages and use of our Site, and (d) Advertising: We use non-identifiable information about you to show you advertising on our Site.
5. THIRD PARTY COOKIES
5.1 We may include advertising content (graphics, animations, video, etc.) in our broadcast advertising, which may contain Cookies placed by third parties. The placement and the use of Cookies by any such third parties will be subject to the privacy and/or cookies policies of those third parties.
5.2 These Cookies will help the third parties (while the Cookies are valid) to:
5.2.1 1. count the number of display advertising content delivered via our advertising; identify advertisements displayed; count the number of users who clicked on each ad, allowing them to calculate the amounts due and thereby establish statistics; and/or
5.2.2 2. recognise your device at any subsequent browsing of any other site or service on which these advertisers or third parties also place these Cookies and, if necessary, adapt these third party sites and services or advertisements they broadcast to your device.
5.3 Google Analytics
5.3.1 Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., uses Cookies to gather information about how visitors use our Site.Google Analytics uses its own Cookies, to analyse the use of our Site on our behalf. The information generated by the Cookies about your use of our Site is transmitted to Google. This information is then used for the purpose of compiling statistical reports to enable us to measure and analyse the number of visits to our Site and its pages, the average time spent on our Site and the pages viewed.
5.3.2 For further information about Google Analytics please visit www.google.com/analytics
5.3.3
5.4 Social buttons
5.4.1 These 'social buttons' are visible on our Site to allow you to share content via social networks, including (but not limited to) Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google Plus.Cookies are placed by these platforms on our Site, and allow them to collect information about your browsing.
5.4.2 To learn more about the privacy policy and Cookie management for Facebook click here, Twitter click here, Instagram click here and Google Plus click here.
5.5 IT tests
5.5.1 These Cookies, emanating from our contracted supplies, test at our request the features of our Site and the performance of user navigation of our site.
7. YOUR CHOICES REGARDING COOKIES
7.1 We think it’s important that you are able to control the collection of personal data relating to your use of our Platform, and have therefore made sure that you can opt out of any personal data collection using cookies or other technologies as set out below. (Please note that you cannot opt out of our use of Flash cookies or HTML5 local storage as these are necessary for the technical operation of the platform. However, we do not use these technologies to collect any personal data.) When you sign up to our Site, we will ask you if you will accept Cookies from us or our third parties. If you choose not to accept Cookies from us or our third parties, or if you accept Cookies but subsequently disable some or all of the Cookies through your web browser settings, you won't have access to many features that make your experience more efficient and some of our Site will not function properly.
8. INSTRUCTIONS FOR MANAGING COOKIES
8.1 Introduction: If you have a different browser type or version, please refer to your browser's "Help" menu.
8.2 Internet Explorer 7, 8, and 9: Click on the Tools menu, and then select Internet Options. Click on the Privacy tab. Move the slider to choose your preferred settings. For more specialised cookie settings, click on Sites or Advanced.
8.3 Google Chrome: Click on the Chrome menu, and then select Settings. Click Show advanced settings. Click on Content settings to choose your preferred settings.
8.4 Mozilla Firefox 14, 15 and 16: Click on the Firefox button (or Tools menu), and then select Options. For Mac OS X users, click on the Firefox menu, and then select Preferences. Click on the Privacy panel to choose your preferred settings. For more specialised cookie settings, set 'Firefox will:' to 'Use custom settings for history.'
8.5 Safari 5.1 and Later (Mac OS X): Click on the Safari menu, and then select Preferences. Click on the Privacy tab to display cookie settings. Choose your preferred settings. For more specialised cookie settings, click on Details.