13. Cookies Policy - Information Gifts & Lists collects from you
a. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is
sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a
website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. Each website can send
its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect
your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already
sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a
user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the
websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept
all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any
time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be
provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all
of Gifts & Lists features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your
browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
During the course of any visit to Gifts & Lists, the pages you see, along with a cookie,
are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website
publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user)
has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and
finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
b. How does Gifts & Lists use cookies?
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and
help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example: if on a previous
visit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from your cookie and
highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits. Gifts & Lists
also users a cookie to identify users when they adding items to their lists.
c. Third party advertising cookies
Most of the advertisements you see on the website are generated by third parties. Some of
these third parties generate their own cookies to track how many people have seen a
particular advertisement (or use the services of third parties to do this), and to track
how many people have seen it more than once. These cookies cannot be used to identify an
individual; they can only be used for statistical purposes, for example, in providing you
with advertisements that are more relevant to your interests. Some of the information
gleaned from third party cookies will be aggregated with other anonymous information for
statistical purposes. The third party companies that generate these cookies have their own,
very strict, privacy policies but we don't have access to these cookies; other than
allowing them to be served, we have no role to play in these cookies at all (although we
may use statistical information arising from these third party cookies and provided to us
by third parties, to improve the targeting of advertisements to users of the website).
If you would like to disable "third party" cookies generated by advertisers or providers of
targeted advertising services, you can turn them off by going to the third party's website
and getting them to generate a one-time "no thanks" cookie that will stop any further cookies
being written to your machine. For example to disable Google, ad-related cookies visit the
following address:
Google Advertising and Privacy
Please note, as of April 2009 Google has begun to make use of interest-based advertising. If
you wish to opt-out of this you can use the link provided above.
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