COOKIES ON THE ARTS BOUND WEBSITE
This site, like many others, uses small files called cookies to help us customise your experience. Find out more about cookies and how you can control them.
This page provides information about what a cookie is, what cookies the ARTS BOUND website uses, how to disable cookies in your browser, how to disable advertising cookies, and some useful links for further reading on this topic.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a browser (such as Internet Explorer or Safari) stores on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to remember things like user preferences. You can think of cookies as a “memory” for a website so it can recognise you when you return and respond appropriately.
How does the ARTS BOUND website use cookies?
Visiting a page on the ARTS BOUND website may result in the following types of cookies being created:
Anonymous analytics cookies
Geotargeting cookies
Registration cookies
Advertising cookies
Third party advertising cookies
Anonymous analytics cookies:
Each time someone visits our website, software provided by another organisation generates an “anonymous analytics cookie”.
These cookies can tell us whether you have visited the site before.
Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don’t, we will generate new ones.
This allows us to track the number of individual users and how often they visit the site.
If you are not logged into ARTS BOUND, we cannot use these cookies to identify you personally. We use them to compile statistics, such as the number of times a page has been visited. If you are logged in, we will also see the data you have provided to us to do so, such as your username and email address.
Geotargeting cookies
These cookies are used by software that attempts to determine which country you are in based on information provided by your browser when you click on a web page. This cookie is completely anonymous and we only use it to help you navigate to the right region or website.
Registration cookies
When you register with ARTS BOUND , we generate cookies that let us know whether you are logged in or not.
Our servers use these cookies to determine which account you are logged in with and whether you are allowed to access a particular service.
While you are logged in to any of the sites, we combine the information from your registration cookies with analytics cookies, which we may use to determine which pages you have viewed on ARTS BOUND .
Advertising cookies
These cookies allow us to know whether you have seen an advertisement or a type of advertisement, and how long ago you saw it.
We also use cookies to enable targeted advertising. We may use cookies set by another organisation to help us target advertising to you more accurately. These cookies are anonymous – they store information about what you view on our site, but not who you are.
Other third party cookies
On some pages of our website, other organisations may also set their own anonymous cookies. They do this to track the success of their application or to customise the application for you. Because of the way cookies work, our website cannot access these cookies and the other organisation cannot access the data in the cookies we use on our website.
How do I disable cookies?
You can usually set your browser to stop accepting cookies or to stop it from accepting cookies from a particular website. However, we cannot tell if you are logged in without the use of cookies, so you will not be able to leave comments.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. To understand these settings, you may find the following links helpful, or you can use the “Help” option in your browser for more information.
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari and iOS web browser.
Useful links
If you want to learn more about cookies and how they are used online, you may find the following links helpful:
Microsoft Cookie Guide
All About Cookies
The IAB has provided the following website which provides information specifically related to privacy issues related to online advertising:
youronlinechoices.co.uk/uk
For further legal information on privacy issues you may find the following links useful:
Data Protection Act 1998
Information Commissioner’s Office