When you visit any web site, it may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded on your device when you visit a website. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. The information does not usually directly identify you, but it can give you a more personalized web experience. Because we respect your right to privacy, you can choose not to allow some types of cookies.
Cookies set by the website owner (Us) are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by other parties are called "third party cookies". Third-party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognise your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
There are different types of cookies. Some cookies are “strictly necessary” which enable you to access and use our entertainment services.
We also use functional, performance and advertising cookies to make your experience more enjoyable. You can switch these on or off at any time and you can always change your mind. We’ll only use them if you have agreed to them.
The last type of cookie which may be used are those from other companies. These "third-party cookies" might track how you use different websites, including ours. For example, you might get a social media company’s cookie when you see the option to share something. You can turn them off, but not through us.
How long do cookies last?
Some are erased when you close the browser on your website or app. Others stay longer, sometimes forever, and are saved onto your device so that they’re there when you come back.
We use the following types of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies:
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our websites and under our terms with you. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our websites, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services. These are first-party cookies set by us. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Website to you, you cannot refuse them.
You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings as described below under the heading "Disabling cookies".
Functionality Cookies:
These are used to recognise you when you return to Our Site. This enables us, subject to your choices and preferences, to personalise Our content, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). These are first-party cookies set by us or third-party cookies (such as Google). To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading "How can I control cookies?"
Analytical/performance cookies:
These cookies allow us to monitor traffic on our websites, to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our websites when they are using them. These cookies help us to continually improve the way our websites work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use Google Analytics for analytics cookies. This is a third-party cookie. To refuse these Cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading "How can I control cookies?”
For more information about how Google uses cookies and how you can manage your Cookies, please click here: policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
Targeting/advertising cookies:
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests
Subject to your consent, we may share this information with third parties for this same purpose. We may also work with advertising networks that gather information about the content on those of our websites that you visit and on information on other websites and services you visit. This may result in you seeing advertisements on/or through our websites or our advertisements when you visit other websites and services of third parties which we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how to turn this feature off see below or visit http://www.youronlinechoices.co/uk/. These are first-party cookies set by us or third-party cookies (such as DoubleClick which is owned by Google).
To refuse these Cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading "How can I control cookies?"
For more information about DoubleClick and how you can manage your Cookies, please visit Google's cookies page at policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
How do I control my cookies and tracking?
When you visit us for the first time we will ask you if you wish to accept the cookies we use.
You can choose whether or not to accept cookies by activating a setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website however access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted.
You can learn more about cookies by visiting
www.allaboutcookies.org which provides useful information on cookies and further information on how to block cookies using different types of browser or mobile device. You may also find the following links helpful:
• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari
• Cookie settings in Edge
Please note, however, that by blocking or deleting cookies used on the platforms, you may not be able to take full advantage of the products and services that are on offer.
What about other tracking technologies?
Cookies are not the only way to recognise or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognise when someone has visited our Website (or opened an e-mail that we have sent them). This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Website to another, to deliver or communicate with Cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on Cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.
Google Analytics
This Website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies or text files. These are saved on your computer and allow your usage of the website to be analysed. The information generated by the cookie about your usage of this Website is generally sent to a Google server in the USA and saved there. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this Website, your IP address is shortened by Google within the member states of the EU or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this Website to evaluate your usage of the Website, to compile reports about the Website activities and to perform further services connected to Website usage and Internet usage in its dealings with the Website operator. The IP address sent by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined together with other data by Google.
You can prevent these cookies from being saved by making an appropriate setting in your browser software. However, you may then not be able to use all the Website's functions to their full extent.
You can also prevent the data (incl. your IP address) generated by the cookie and related to your usage of the Website from being sent to Google and processed by Google by using the above-mentioned opt-out links. More information is available at
analytics.google.com.
Pixels
We use pixel-based tracking to track a visit or event on the Platforms and to track advertisement.
