Cookie Policy

Cookie Information

When you browse any website, it might save or retrieve information via your browser, usually in the form of cookies. Cookies are small text files filled with minor amounts of information which get downloaded to your device when you visit a website. This information could pertain to you, your preferences, or your device, and is primarily used to ensure the site operates as you'd expect. While this information typically does not directly identify you, it can offer a more personalised browsing experience. As we value your privacy, you have the option to disable certain types of cookies.

 

Cookies created by the website owner (us) are labelled as "first-party cookies". Cookies created by other entities are "third-party cookies". Third-party cookies provide third-party features or functions on or through the website (such as advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The entities that create these third-party cookies can identify your device both when it visits our website and when it visits certain other websites.

 

 

Why do we use cookies?

There are various types of cookies. Some cookies are “strictly necessary” which enable you to access and use our entertainment services.

 

We also utilise functional, performance, and advertising cookies to enhance your experience. You can enable or disable these at any time, and you're always free to change your mind. We'll only use them with your consent.

 

The last type of cookies which may be used are those from other companies. These "third-party cookies" might monitor how you interact with various websites, including ours. For instance, you might encounter a social media company’s cookie when you see the option to share something. You can disable them, but not through us.

 

 

How long do cookies last?

Some cookies are deleted when you close your web browser. Others persist for longer durations, potentially indefinitely, and are saved on your device so they're ready when you return.

 

 

We use the following types of cookies:

 

Strictly Necessary Cookies:

• These are cookies essential for our websites' operation and according to our agreement with you. For instance, these cookies allow 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.

• Since these cookies are essential to deliver the website to you, you can't refuse them. However, you can block or delete them by adjusting your browser settings, as described later under "How to Manage Cookies".

 

Functionality Cookies:

• These are used to recognize you when you revisit our site. Subject to your preferences and choices, this allows us to personalize our content, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (like 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, follow the instructions later under "How can I control cookies?"

 

Analytical/Performance Cookies:

• These cookies help us monitor traffic on our websites, recognize and count the number of visitors, and observe how visitors navigate our websites. They help us continually enhance our websites, for instance, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily.

• We use Google Analytics for these analytical cookies, which is a third-party cookie.

• To refuse these cookies, follow the instructions later under "How can I control cookies?”

• For additional info on how Google uses cookies and how you can manage your cookies, please visit: policies.google.com/technologies/cookies

 

Targeting/Advertising Cookies:

• These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They carry out functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases, selecting advertisements based on your interests.

• With your consent, we may share this information with third parties for the same purpose. We might also work with advertising networks that gather info about the content on our websites you visit and info on other websites and services you visit. This could result in you seeing advertisements on/through our websites or our advertisements when you visit other third-party websites and services that we believe may be of interest to you. For more information on 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 (like DoubleClick, which is owned by Google).

• To refuse these cookies, follow the instructions later under "How can I control cookies?"

• For more info about DoubleClick and how you can manage your cookies, please visit Google's cookies page at policies.google.com/technologies/cookies.

 

 

How can I manage my cookies and tracking?

When you first visit our site, we will ask if you're okay with us using cookies.

 

You can decide whether to accept cookies by enabling a setting on your browser that allows you to reject cookies. If you choose to refuse cookies, you can still browse our website, but access to certain features and sections of our website might be limited.

 

You can learn more about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org, which offers useful information on cookies and details on how to block cookies on different types of browsers or mobile devices. You might also find these links helpful:

 

• https://www.aboutcookies.org/ (provides info about cookies on a variety of desktop browsers.)

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer

• Cookie settings in Firefox

• Cookie settings in Chrome

• Cookie settings in Safari

• Cookie settings in Edge

 

Please be aware that by blocking or deleting cookies used on our platform, you might not be able to fully benefit from the products and services we offer.

 

 

What about other tracking technologies?

Cookies aren't the only way to recognize or track website visitors. We may occasionally use other similar technologies, like web beacons (sometimes referred to as "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that include a unique identifier enabling us to recognize when someone has visited our website (or opened an email we've sent). This allows us, for instance, to monitor user traffic patterns from one page within our website to another, interact with cookies, understand if you've landed on our website from an online ad displayed on a third-party website, improve site performance, and measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies depend on cookies to work properly, and so declining cookies will hamper their functioning.

 

 

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service from Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics employs cookies or text files saved on your computer that enable analysis of your website usage. The information generated by the cookie about your website usage is usually sent to and stored on a Google server in the USA. However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address is abbreviated by Google within the member states of the EU or other states party 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 this website's operator to evaluate your usage of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to website usage and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address sent by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not combined with other data by Google.

 

You can prevent these cookies from being saved by adjusting the relevant setting in your browser software. However, please note that you may not be able to use all the website's functions to their full extent in that case.

 

You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie and related to your website usage (including your IP address) from being sent to Google and processed by Google by using the opt-out links mentioned above. More information is available at analytics.google.com.

 

 

Pixels

We use pixel-based tracking to record a visit or event on the platforms and to track ads.