RECENT LEGISLATION in the UK and Europe requires websites to obtain explicit consent before leaving behind or reading files (mostly cookies) on their user’s computers. As a result of this legislation we need to make the use of cookies on our website very obvious to users.
Our aim at Pevensey Bay Life is to fully comply with this legislation, ‘both in spirit and in fact’. With this aim in mind we have implemented on the site a set of controls provide to us by Civic UK which give users full control of how to navigate our site in relation to our use of cookies.
Below we have set out our privacy policy in relation to our use of cookies.
This page contains information on what ‘cookies’ are, the cookies used by pevenseybaylife.co.uk and how to switch cookies off in your browser, how to specifically disable third party advertising cookies, and some useful links for further reading on the subject.
What are ‘cookies’?
‘Cookies’ are small text files that are stored by the browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Safari) on your computer or mobile phone. They allow websites to store such things as user preferences. You can think of cookies as providing a “memory” for the website, enabling it to recognise a user and respond appropriately.
How does pevenseybaylife.co.uk use cookies?
A visit to a page on pevenseybaylife.co.uk may generate the following types of cookie:
Anonymous analytics cookies
Registration cookies
Advertising cookies
Third party advertising cookies
Other third party cookies
Anonymous analytics cookies:
Every time a user visits our website, web analytics software provided by a third party generates an anonymous analytics cookie.
These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before.
Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies, and if you don’t, we generate new ones.
This allows us to track how many individual unique users we have, and how often they visit the site.
These cookies cannot be used to identify individuals; they are used for statistical purposes only. If you are logged in, we will also know the details you gave to us for this, such as username and email address.
Registration cookies
When you register with the pevenseybaylife, we generate cookies that signal whether you are signed in or not.
Our servers use these cookies to work out which account you are signed in with, and if you are allowed access to a particular service. It also allows us to associate any comments you post with your username.
If you have not selected ‘keep me signed in,’ your cookies get deleted when you either close your browser or shut down your computer.
While you are signed into the site, we combine information from your registration cookies with analytics cookies, which we could use to identify which pages you have seen on Pevensey Bay Life.
Advertising cookies
These cookies allow us to know whether or not you’ve seen an advert or a type of advert, and how long it is since you’ve seen it.
Third party advertising cookies
Some of the advertisements you see on Pevensey Bay Life are generated by third parties. Some of these third parties use their own anonymous cookies to track how many people have seen a particular ad, or to track how many people have seen it more than once.
The companies that generate these cookies have their own privacy policies, and Pevensey Bay Life has no access to read or write these cookies. These third party advertising cookies may be used by those third parties to anonymously target advertising to you on other websites, based on your visit to Pevensey Bay Life.
Other third party cookies
On some pages of pevenseybaylife.co.uk, third parties may also set their own anonymous cookies, for the purposes of tracking the success of their application, or customising the application for you. Because of how cookies work, pevenseybaylife.co.uk cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by pevenseybaylife.co.uk.
For example, when you share an article using a social media sharing button on Pevensey Bay Life, the social network that has created the button will record that you have done this.
How do I turn cookies off?
It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website.
All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. These settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, otherwise you should use the ‘Help’ option in your browser for more details.
Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
Cookie settings in Firefox
Cookie settings in Chrome
Cookie settings in Safari web and iOS.
