Cookies Policy

Cookies are small data files sent by a website’s server to a web browser, processor memory or hard drive and stored there. They can be used for a range of different purposes, such as customising a website for a particular user, helping a user navigate a website, improving that user’s website experience, and storing that user’s preferences and login information.
 

Cookies can be classified as either ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential’.
Essential cookies: these are cookies that are either:

• used solely to carry out or facilitate the transmission of communications over a network; or
• strictly necessary to provide an online service (e.g. our website or a service on our website) which you have requested.

Non-essential cookies: these are any cookies that do not fall within the definition of essential cookies, such as cookies used to analyse your behaviour on a website (‘analytical’ cookies) or cookies used to display advertisements to you (‘advertising’ cookies).
 

Cookies can be classified as either ‘session’ or ‘persistent’, depending on how long they last after they are placed on your browser.

Session cookies: session cookies last for as long as you keep your browser open. They expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies: persistent cookies expire at a fixed point in time or if you manually delete them from your browser, whichever occurs first.
 

Cookies can be classified as ‘first party’ or ‘third party’.
First party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by our website domain.
Third party cookies: these are cookies placed on your device by third party website domains.
If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
 

These are cookies which are strictly necessary for our website to be able to operate or to provide you with a service on our website which you have requested. We use the following essential cookies on our website:

• [first party session cookies to remember your input when you fill in an online form over several pages on our website. These cookies are: [insert cookie names].]

• [first party session cookies for remembering the items you have placed in your shopping cart. These cookies are: [insert cookie names].]

• [first party session cookies to identify and authenticate you when you log into our website so you do not need to repeatedly enter your login information. These cookies are: [insert cookie names].]

• [first party [session OR persistent] security cookies used for detecting repeated failed login attempts. These cookies are: [insert cookie names].]

• [first party [session OR persistent] security cookies used to prevent abuse of the login system on our website. These cookies are: [insert cookie names].]

• [[first party OR third party] session multimedia player cookies to play [audio AND/OR video] content on our website. These cookies are: [insert cookie names].]

• [[first party OR third party] [session OR persistent] cookies to recognise whether you have accepted the use of cookies on our website. These cookies are: [insert cookie names]. These cookies expire after [insert time period for cookies to expire if they are persistent cookies e.g. 30 days].]

• [[first party OR third party] [session OR persistent] cookies to remember the language in which to display our website to you. These cookies are: [insert cookie names]. These cookies expire after [insert time period for cookies to expire if they are persistent cookies e.g. 30 days].]

• [[first party OR third party] [session OR persistent] [include the details of any additional purposes for which you use essential cookies on your website.] These cookies are: [insert cookie names].] These cookies expire after [insert time period for cookies to expire if they are persistent cookies e.g. 30 days].]

These are cookies that are designed for purposes such as enhancing a website’s functionality. These are either not strictly essential for the website or functionality which you have requested to work, or are cookies which serve non-essential purposes in addition to their essential purpose. We use the following functional cookies on our website:

• [[first party OR third party] [session OR persistent] cookies to recognise you when you use our live chat service. These cookies are: [insert cookie names]. These cookies expire after [insert time period for cookies to expire if they are persistent cookies e.g. 30 days].]
   
• [[first party OR third party] [session OR persistent] cookies to improve our website’s appearance our website and personalise it for you, including [insert details]. These cookies are: [insert cookie names]. These cookies expire after [insert time period for cookies to expire if they are persistent cookies e.g. 30 days].]
   
• [[first party OR third party] [session OR persistent] cookies to [include any additional purposes for which you use functional cookies on your website.] These cookies are: [insert cookie names]. These cookies expire after [insert time period for cookies to expire if they are persistent cookies e.g. 30 days].]

How to opt in or out from functional cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
 
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies
[Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from functional cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). We will only process such personal information if you have consented to us placing cookies on your computer or device.
Legitimate interests: improving your website experience and providing [or enhancing] the website functionality you have requested [and] [insert any additional purposes for which you use functional cookies or the information you gain from functional cookies e.g. analysing information about users of your website live chat service.]

We and any marketing companies we use also embed web beacons in our marketing emails and/or on our website. Web beacons are small GIF image files which enable us to track your receipt of our marketing emails, how often you view our adverts or website pages, your location, IP address and browser information. Web beacons are activated whenever you open a marketing email or access a page on our website which contains a web beacon. Web beacons transmit data when you view them but are not capable of accessing any other information on your computer. Web beacons are not stored on your hard drive unless you download a GIF image containing them.

Some (but not all) browsers enable you to restrict the use of web beacons by either preventing them from sending information back to their source (for example, when you choose browser settings that block cookies and trackers), or by not accessing the images containing them (for example, if you select a ‘do not display images (in emails)’ setting in your email server).

How to opt in or out
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
 
Legal basis for processing: we process the information we gather from the use of web beacons in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interest: [analysing the effectiveness of our email marketing campaigns [and/or [insert purpose of use of web beacons if you use them on your website in addition to email marketing]]. [For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of web beacons[, including [automated decision making] and [profiling]] please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: www.upshotmedia.co.uk/prvacy-policy.html
 

We DO NOT CURRENTLY use Facebook Pixel on our website. Facebook Pixel is a tracking code which allows us to track and monitor the success of advertisements we use on Facebook and to improve the effectiveness of those advertisements by recording information such as the device you used to access our website and the actions you took on our website using cookies. [We may also use Facebook Pixel to create retargeting advertisements and custom audiences for our advertisements on Facebook and on our website.

Facebook aggregates data gathered from our use of Facebook Pixel on our website with data it gathers from other sources, in order to improve and target advertisements displayed on its website or via its services, to improve its systems and to provide measurement services to third parties which use Facebook’s advertising services. You can find out more about how Facebook handles information they collect about you and other individuals by accessing their privacy policy, which is available here: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

How to opt in or out

See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies

Legal basis for processing: we process the information we gather from the use of web beacons in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interest: [analysing the effectiveness of our advertisements on Facebook. [For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of Facebook Pixel [, including [automated decision making] and [profiling]] please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: [insert link to privacy policy]
 

You can accept or reject non-essential cookies by using our cookie management tool. [insert description of how your cookie control tool works and how a user can turn on or off different types of cookies].]
 

You can accept or reject some or all cookies (for example, blocking all third party cookies) by adjusting your browser settings. If you do not know how to do this, the links below set out information about how to change your browser settings for some of the most commonly used web browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Apple Safari

Some browsers, such as Chrome and Firefox, allow you to change your settings to browse in ‘incognito’ mode, limiting the amount of data placed on your machine and automatically deleting any persistent cookies placed on your device when you finish your browsing session. There are also many third party applications which you can add to your browser to block or manage cookies.

 

To clear cookies that have previously been placed on your browser, you should select the option to clear your browsing history and ensure that the option to delete or clear cookies is included when you do so.

You can manage and opt out of personalisation of advertisements by Google by visiting Google’s ad settings page here https://adssettings.google.com/ and by:

• unticking the button entitled ‘Also use Google Account activity and information to personalize ads on these websites and apps and store that data in your Google Account’; and
• switching the ‘Ads Personalisation’ setting off (i.e. by ensuring the switch at the top of the page is set to the left/grey and not the right/blue).

Alternatively, you can install a free browser plugin here: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996
 
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
 

You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the browser add-on which is available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

You can opt out of Facebook and other companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe from showing you interest based ads by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com, selecting your country, clicking ‘Your Ad Choices’, then locating Facebook (and any other companies you want to block) and selecting the ‘Off’ option.

This Cookies Policy is based on a template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information, please visit https://gdprprivacypolicy.org

The copyright in this Cookies Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved. Where we display the GDPR Privacy Policy logo on our website, this is used to indicate that we have adopted a privacy policy template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy as the basis for this Privacy Policy.