Monday, 3 December 2012

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT COOKIES

IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT COOKIES

On the 26th May 2011, new rules came into force regarding cookies. These rules require that cookies can only be placed on devices where the user has given their consent. This notice is designed to provide you with more information about how Bauer Media (the publisher of this website) uses cookies and adheres to these rules.

What are Cookies?

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer's hard drive while you are viewing a website.

How does Bauer Media use Cookies?

Cookies allow us to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our websites.
Bauer Media does use persistent cookies, which stay on your computer or mobile media device even after you have gone offline.
Bauer Media will use different types of cookies at various different pages of your use of our websites, these types of cookies include:

Essential Cookies

These cookies are essential to the running of a Bauer Media website, such as Session cookies, which enable you to carry out some essential functions on Bauer Media's websites like maintaining login details for the session or a transaction. The Session cookies are not stored on your computer and will expire when you close your web browser session.

Bauer Media Marketing Cookies

These cookies are normally supplied by our approved partners or adverts delivered from Bauer Media's own systems and allow us to serve you adverts that you might be more interested in. This tracking system is anonymised and therefore it does not know who you are.

3rd Party Advertising Cookies

Many of our websites carry advertising. A certain amount of this advertising is tailored to the individual user. This "onsite behavioural targeting" uses cookies to discover general information about the pages you visit. The tracking system is anonymised and therefore it does not know who you are; it simply uses the limited information available to it to serve adverts to you, which it believes are relevant.

Tracking/User Analysis Cookies

Many of our websites also use cookies to track how many individual unique users we have and how often they visit Bauer Media's websites. We use 3rd party companies for this service such as Google Analytics provided by Google.

What to do if you want to control the use of Cookies?

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies using your web browser, but please be aware that for some parts of our websites to work you will need to accept cookies. Cookies can be removed or declined by changing your web browser settings. For more information please visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Please be aware that this is 3rd party website and as such Bauer Media accept no liability for the instructions given on this site.

How will Bauer Media comply with the Law change?

Bauer Media is working hard to implement the new rules and provide you with the ability to accept or decline cookies.
If you have any questions about this new law change, please contact dataprotectionofficer@bauermedia.co.uk.

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