This website uses a standard accepted internet technology commonly referred to as “cookies” to collect and store information about our visitors. This information allows us to remember certain settings, improve functionality of our site and to offer interest based advertising.

What Are Cookies?

A “cookie” is essentially just a very small text file. They typically include a unique anonymous unique assigned to each visitor. When you visit a website the website server computer requests permission from your device to store the cookie file. The file is typically stored in a location specifically reserved for storage of cookies. Generally speaking, each unique site can send its own cookie to your device only if your browser or device preferences or settings allow it. Due to privacy concerns, settings normally only allow a website to access and view its own cookies and not those sent from other websites.

Our web server logs and those of third parties may obtain information about how users navigate through, interact with, and use our website. Information collected via cookies and related technology may include (but is not limited to) details about:

• Your IP address and or general location details
• The date, time and duration of your visit to our site
• Details pertaining to which pages were visited or what content was accessed and interacted with on our site
• Limited information regarding websites visited just prior to and immediately after your visit

Third party vendors beyond our control, such as Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. For further details, please see Google’s Privacy Policy. Alternatively, you can choose to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest based advertising by visiting aboutads.info.

SkimLinks Cookie(s) and Automated Data Collection:

Name of Cookie:

• t_gid (outside the UK and EMEA)
(Third party)

Name of other automated means of data collection:

• SkimJS
• Link Wrapper
(Third party)

Purpose(s) of cookie or other automated means of data collection:

The Skimlinks Group provides the following explanation on the purpose of their cookies and automated data collection methods:

The Skimlinks Group uses the above automated means of data collection to earn income from our content. The service works by creating/tagging links within content that a user is reading which, if clicked, takes the user to a third party merchant’s website where the products and/or services can be purchased. If the user then buys something as a result of clicking on these links, the publisher is paid a referral fee by the merchant through Skimlinks. This referral fee does not come out of users’ pockets, nor does it affect the price users pay or the experience users have on the merchant’s site.

In respect of Users outside the UK and EMEA, the Skimlinks Group also stores or reads the t_gid cookie when a User visits a web page or clicks on content on a publisher’s properties, in order optimize, personalize, analyze, and recommend content to Users.

You can find out more about how the above cookie and automated means of data collection works and how the Skimlinks Group handles your data, including how to opt-out, by reviewing Skimlinks’ Privacy Policy (accessible here) and the Privacy Policy of its affiliate company, Taboola (accessible here).

Please note that in order for us to benefit from the Skimlinks Group’s services, the Skimlinks Group works with alongside other third parties, called “affiliate networks”, who may also set cookies on your device. Affiliate networks are not processors or subprocessors of Skimlinks. An overview of these affiliate networks and a link to their respective privacy policies can be found here.

Duration:

SkimJS: As long as SkimJS is enabled by us on our website and other Properties.
Link Wrapper: As long as Link Wrapper syntax is enabled by us on our website and Properties.
t_gid: 1 year.