This Cookies Policy sets out the basis on which we, V-ESQ Ltd trading as Hypestar, use cookies and similar technologies on or in relation to our website, https://hypestar.com (our website).
This Cookies Policy is effective from 1st January 2017, updated on 15th August 2020.
‘Essential’ cookies are automatically placed on your computer or device when you access our website or take certain actions on our website. ‘Non-essential’ cookies and other technologies are only placed on your computer or device if you have consented to us doing so. For information on the difference between essential and non-essential cookies, see the section below entitled About cookies.
For information on how you consent and how you can withdraw your consent to us placing non-essential cookies and other technologies on your computer or device, see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies.
About cookies
What are cookies?
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.
Essential and non-essential cookies
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).
Session and persistent 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.
First and third party cookies
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.
Further information
If you require further information about cookies in general, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
Types of cookies used
We use the following cookies on or in relation to our website:
Essential cookies
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:
| Name of Cookie
| Essential or Non-essential? | Type of cookie | First or Third party? | Session or Persistent? | Expiry Time | Purpose |
| woocommerce_cart_hash | Essential | Technical | First party | Session | At end of session | WordPress – Contains information about the cart as a whole and used to keep the cart items accurate. |
| woocommerce_items_in_cart | Essential | Technical | First party | Session | At end of session | WordPress – Contains information about the cart as a whole and used to keep the cart items accurate |
| wp_woocommerce_session_# | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 2 days | WordPress – Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. |
| wc_cart_hash_# | Essential | Technical | First party | Session | End of Session | WordPress – Contains information about the cart as a whole and used to keep the cart items accurate. |
| wc_fragments_# | Essential | Technical | First party | Session | End of Session | Wocommerce – stores a visitors login information so they don’t need to keep logging in if browser closed |
| wc_cart_created | Essential | Technical | First party | Session | End of Session | Store performed actions on the website |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | Essential | Technical | First party | Session | End of Session | WordPress cookie for a logged in user. |
| wfvt_[id] | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 30 mins | Remembers the user’s submitted data when a comment is submitted in a blog post. The purpose is to auto-populate form fields for subsequent comments, in order to save time for the user. |
| wordfence_verifiedHuman | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 24 hrs | Wordfence Cookie used to verify if the visitor is a bot or human. |
| wordpress_logged_in_[id] | Essential | Technical | First party | Session | At end of session | Checks whether or not the current visitor is a logged in. |
| wordpress_sec_[id] | Essential | Technical | First party | Session | At end of session | Checks whether or not the current visitor is a logged in. |
| wordpress_test_cookie | Essential | Technical | First party | Session | At end of session | Check if your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies. |
| wp-settings-[id] | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 yr | Persists a user’s wp-admin configuration. |
| wp-settings-time-[id] | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 yr | Persists a user’s wp-admin configuration. |
| wp_automatewoo_visitor | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 60 days | AutomateWoo e-mail remarketing cookie |
| user_allowed_save_cookie | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 6 months | Indicates if a customer has given permission to accept cookies. |
| cookies.js | Essential | Technical | First party | Session | At end of session | Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry. |
| CookieConsent | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 yr | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain. |
| __paypal_storage__ | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | Store PayPal account details | |
| paypal | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | PayPal fraud prevention | |
| __stripe_mid | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 year | Stripe – Fraud prevention |
| __stripe_sid | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 30 mins | Stripe – Fraud prevention |
| wfwaf-authcookie-# | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 12 hrs | This cookie is used by the Wordfence firewall to perform a capability check of the current user before WordPress has been loaded. This is only set for users that are able to log into WordPress. |
| wf_loginalerted_# | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 year | This cookie is used to notify the Wordfence admin when an administrator logs in from a new device or location. This is only set for administrators. |
| wfCBLBypass | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 year | This cookie us used to allow certain users from blocked countries, even though their country has been blocked. |
| rc::a | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | Google reCAPTCHA – Filter requests from bots | |
| rc::b | Essential | Technical | First party | Session | End of session | Google reCAPTCHA – Filter requests from bots |
| rc::c | Essential | Technical | First party | Session | End of session | Google reCAPTCHA – Filter requests from bots |
| cmplz_choice | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 year | Complianz – Store if a cookie consent message has been dismissed |
| cmplz_id | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 year | Complianz – Store anonymized statistics |
| cmplz_user_data | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 year | Complianz – Determines which cookie banner to show |
| complianz_consent_status | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 year | Complianz – Store cookie consent preferences |
| cmplz_event_* | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 year | Complianz – Store cookie consent preferences |
| cmplz_all | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 year | Complianz – Store cookie consent preferences |
| complianz_policy_id | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 year | Complianz – Register accepted cookie policy ID |
| cmplz_marketing | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 year | Complianz – Store cookie consent preferences |
| cmplz_stats | Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 1 year | Complianz – Store cookie consent preferences |
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from essential cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: ensuring our site functions properly and providing you with online services you have requested.
How to opt out of essential cookies
Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, including essential cookies. Please note, however, that if you block all cookies, parts of our website and its functionality may not work or display properly.
You can delete existing cookies from your browser by clearing your browsing data and ensuring that the option to delete cookies is selected.
For more detailed information on how to accept and reject cookies, including guidance for specific browsers, please see the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Non-essential cookies
We use the following types of non-essential cookies on our website:
- Functional cookies
- Analytical (or performance) cookies
- Targeting (or advertising) cookies
Functional cookies
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:
| Name of Cookie
| Essential or Non-essential? | Type of cookie | First or Third party? | Session or Persistent? | Expiry Time | Purpose |
| store_notice[notice id] | Non-Essential | Technical | First party | Session | End of session | Contains information which allows customers to dismiss the Store Notice. |
| woocommerce_recently_viewed | Non-Essential | Technical | First party | Session | End of Session | WordPress – Contains information used by the Recent Viewed Products widget. |
| woocommerce_current_currency | Non-Essential | Technical | First party | Persistent | 7 days | Contains information about the currency selected for estimating prices. |
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.
For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of functional cookies, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://hypestar.com/privacy-policy.
Analytical (or performance) cookies
Analytical (or performance) cookies track and gather data about what a user does on a website. These cookies are not essential for our website or its functionality to work. We use the following analytical cookies on our website:
| Name of Cookie
| Essential or Non-essential? | Type of cookie | First or Third party? | Session or Persistent? | Expiry Time | Purpose |
| collect | Non-Essential | Analytical | Third Party | Session | End of Session | Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
| _gid | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 1 day | Google Analytics – Used to distinguish users. |
| _gat_[id] | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 1 min | Google Analytics – Used to throttle request rate. |
| _ga | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 2 yrs | Google Analytics – Used to distinguish users. |
| _gac_[property-id] | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 90 days | Google Analytics – Contains campaign related information. |
| tk_r3d | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 3 days | Automattic – Used to improve user experience. |
| tk_ni | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 2 yrs | Automattic – Used to improve user experience. |
| tk_ai | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 5 yrs | WordPress – Stores a randomly-generated anonymous ID. This is only used within the dashboard area and is used for usage tracking, if enabled. |
| tk_qs | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 30 mins | Automattic – Used to improve user experience. |
| tk_tc | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Session | End of session | Automattic – Store the user’s usage history |
| wordpress_[hash] | Non-Essential | Performance | First party | Persistent | End of Session | WordPress – Contains information for a logged in user. |
| _hjClosedSurveyInvites | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor interacts with a Survey invitation modal popup. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown. |
| _hjDonePolls | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor completes a poll using the Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. |
| _hjMinimizedPolls | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Feedback Poll widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site. |
| _hjDoneTestersWidgets | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor submits their information in the Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the same form does not re-appear if it has already been filled in. |
| _hjMinimizedTestersWidgets | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set once a visitor minimizes a Recruit User Testers widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimizes when the visitor navigates through your site. |
| _hjIncludedInSample | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This session cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. |
| _hjShownFeedbackMessage | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 365 days | This cookie is set when a visitor minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if they navigate to another page where it is set to show. |
| _hjid | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 365 days | Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
| _hjRecordingLastActivity | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Session | End of session | This should be found in sessionStorage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a visitor recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the visitor performs an action that Hotjar records). |
| hjTLDTest | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Session | End of session | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). After this check, the cookie is removed. |
| _hjUserAttributesHash | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Session | End of session | User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated. |
| _hjCachedUserAttributes | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Session | End of session | This cookie stores User Attributes which are sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. These attributes will only be saved if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool. |
| _hjLocalStorageTest | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 100ms | This cookie is used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Script can use local storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set in this cookie. The data stored in_hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted immediately after creating it so the expected storage time is under 100ms. |
| _hjptid | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Session | End of session | This cookie is set for logged in users of Hotjar, who have Admin Team Member permissions. It is used during pricing experiments to show the Admin consistent pricing across the site. |
| _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 30 mins | The cookie is set so Hotjar can track the beginning of the user’s journey for a total session count. It does not contain any identifiable information. |
| _hjIncludedInPageviewSample | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistant | 1 day | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate Funnels. |
| mailchimp_landing_site | Non-Essential | Analytical | First party | Persistent | 27 days | Used to register how the user entered the website – This function is provided by Mailchimp. |
More information
Google Analytics cookies are classified as first party cookies as they are set by our website domain, although Google collects and processes information from our use of Google Analytics. To find out more about how Google handles information collected from Google Analytics, see Google Analytics’ privacy policy, which is available here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
For information on how Google uses data from cookies it uses, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
How to opt in or out from analytical cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites in general, you can do so here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from analytical cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: analysing how individuals use our website to help us improve our website and business. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of analytical cookies, including profiling, please see the section entitled Our use of automated decision making and profiling in our privacy policy, which is available here: https://hypestar.com/privacy-policy.
Targeting (or advertising) cookies
Targeting (or advertising) cookies record information about your visit to and use of our website, for advertising purposes. We use the targeting cookies for the following purposes on our website:
| Name of Cookie
| Essential or Non-essential? | Type of cookie | First or Third party? | Session or Persistent? | Expiry Time | Purpose |
| _fbp | Non-Essential | Targeting (or advertising) | First party | Persistent | 90 days | Facebook – Contains user data to deliver our Facebook marketing and advertising. |
| _fbc | Non-Essential | Targeting (or advertising) | First party | Persistent | 90 days | Facebook – Contains user data to deliver our Facebook marketing and advertising |
| fr | Non-Essential | Targeting (or advertising) | Third party | Persistent | 90 days | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| tr | Non-Essential | Targeting (or advertising) | Third party | Session | End of session | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. |
| datr | Non-Essential | Targeting (or advertising) | Third party | Persistent | 2 years | Used by Facebook to identify the web browser being used to connect to Facebook independent of the logged in user. This cookie plays a key role in Facebook’s security and site integrity features. |
| sb | Non-Essential | Targeting (or advertising) | Third party | Persistent | 2 years | Used by Facebook to show a range of advertising products, such as real-time bidding from third-party advertisers. |
| wd | Non-Essential | Targeting (or advertising) | Third party | Persistent | 7 days | This cookie stores the browser window dimensions and is used by Facebook to optimise the rendering of the page. |
| _hjIncludedInSample | Non-Essential | Targeting (or advertising) | First party | Session | End of session | Determines if the user’s navigation should be registered in a certain statistical place holder. |
| _pin_unauth | Non-Essential | Targeting (or advertising) | First party | Persistent | 1 year | Used by Pinterest to track the usage of services. |
How to opt in or out from advertising cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from advertising cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from advertising cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: displaying advertisements to you about our products and services. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of advertising cookies, 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: https://hypestar.com/privacy-policy.
Third party cookies
Third parties use cookies to analyse your use of our website and/or to display advertisements (including third party advertisements) to you e.g. advertisement conversion tracking such as Google AdWords. Third party cookies used in relation to our website include:
- Google AdWords cookies to track whether you have come to us via an advertisement we have placed on a search engine results page or elsewhere across the internet, such as another website and to record information relating to how you came to us such as your location when you accessed our website, the time of day you visited and the device you were using and any other information collected about you e.g. by AdWords tracking or conversion cookies. Google may use different cookies to track how you came to our website depending on what advertisement you clicked on and where.
- Google remarketing cookies to display advertisements to you about our goods and services across the internet, including on other websites you visit. Google uses cookies to display advertisements to you about our products and services on other websites and locations across the internet based on the fact that you have visited our website. Google may also display other advertisements across the internet to you about third party services using the Google AdSense network, although this is beyond our control. For more information about Google remarketing, click here: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2453998?hl=en.
- Google cookies to display advertisements on our website. We use Google AdSense on our website. Google uses cookies to display advertisements to you on our website about third party goods and services based on the websites you have visited and your online behaviour and interests. For more information about Google AdSense, click here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/6242051?hl=en.
More information
For information about the cookies Google uses in relation to the above, see the ‘Advertising’ section on the Types of cookies used by Google page in Google’s cookies policy, which is available here: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/
For information about how Google uses data from cookies for its own purposes, please visit the following link www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
How to opt in or out from third party cookies
See the section below entitled How to accept or reject cookies
Processing information about you contained in or obtained from third party cookies
Legal basis for processing: we process information about you contained in or obtained from third party cookies in our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation).
Legitimate interests: the purposes for which we use the third party cookies as described. For further information on how we use the information gathered from our use of third party cookies, 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: https://hypestar.com/privacy-policy.
Other technologies
Web beacons
We and any marketing companies we use also embed web beacons in our marketing emails 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 analytics. 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: https://hypestar.com/privacy.
Facebook Pixel
We may 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: https://hypestar.com/privacy-policy.
How to accept or reject cookies
There are a number of different ways in which you can accept or reject some or all cookies and similar technologies. Some of the main methods of doing so are described below:
You are welcome to block the use of some or all of the cookies we use on our website. However, please be aware that doing so may impair our website and its functionality or may even render some or all of it unusable.
You should also be aware that clearing all cookies from your browser will also delete any cookies that are storing your preferences, for example, whether you have accepted cookies on a website or any cookies that are blocking other cookies.
You can find more detailed information about cookies and adjusting your browser settings by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org
Accepting or rejecting cookies
Browser settings
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: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB
- Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-browsing-search-download-history-firefox?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Clear+Recent+History
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
- Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
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.
Existing 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.
Google Adsettings
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
Web beacons
You can opt in to us using web beacons in our marketing emails by: ticking an opt-in box when you sign up for our mailing list
You can opt out of our use of web beacons in our marketing emails by: clicking the unsubscribe link in any email sent to you by email.
Facebook Pixel
Blocking Facebook
You can install a browser add-on tool or extension to stop Facebook tracking you on third party websites. Please check with your browser support for add-ons and extensions.
European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance Tool
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.
Copyright, credit and logo
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.