PRIVACY POLICY.
Welcome to Yourtopia’s privacy policy notice.
Yourtopia respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website as either a customer, nail technician, beauty, or massage therapist.
Yourtopia respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website as either a customer, nail technician, beauty, or massage therapist.
This privacy notice is provided in a numbered format, to make it easier to go to the specific areas set out below.
1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
5. DATA SECURITY
6. DATA RETENTION
7. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
8. COOKIE POLICY
1. Important information and who we are
Purpose of this privacy notice
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Yourtopia collects and processes your personal data through the use of our website booking service, as either a customer, nail technician, beauty or massage therapist, including any data you may provide through this website when you book or perform a treatment, sign up to our email subscription, interact with us on social media or take part in a competition or survey.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them. If you are a nail technician, beauty or massage therapist, we will also provide to you a copy of our staff and contractor privacy notice.
Controller
Yourtopia is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
2. The data we collect about you
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
· Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
· Special Category Personal Data includes details about your health (or race or religion if ever relevant to treatments requested or performed by you)
· Contact Data includes billing address, address at which you want the treatment to take place, email address and telephone numbers.
· Financial Data includes bank account (or similar, such as Paypal, as might be relevant from time to time) and payment card details.
· Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you as either a client, nail technician or beauty or massage therapist.
· Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.
· Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, and services as a client, nail technician and beauty or massage therapist.
· Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use, and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter with you (for example, to provide you with a service). In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have booked with us (such as withdrawing your registration as a customer or nail
technician, beauty, or massage therapist, although that should only be in rare cases), but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
3. How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact details by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by phone or email. This includes personal data you provide when you:
· make or accept an appointment;
· purchase or sign up to our services;
· complète Our consultation forms
· request marketing to be sent to you
· enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
· give us some feedback directly through our website or through our nail technicians, beauty or massage therapists.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
· Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU;
· Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services such as:
o Stripe Inc is a global company we use to process online payments to the nail technician, beauty or massage therapists so that we can receive our commission. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy
o PayPal is a global company which we use to process online payments between customer users, nail technicians and beauty or massage therapists through our website. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
o Mailchimp is a global company which we use for email marketing. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
o Squarespace is a global company which we use we use to process bookings between customers nail technicians and beauty or massage therapists through our website. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy
4. How we use your personal data?
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
· Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
· Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
· Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Purpose/Activity Type of data To register you as a new customer or nail technician, beauty or massage therapist. Identity ,Contact, Financial, Profile, Marketing and Communications To process and deliver your service to your client, including:
(a) Allocating the correct therapist to provide the treatment to you as the customer user and introducing you to your customer user client as the nail technician, beauty or massage therapist
(b) Allowing the nail technician, beauty or massage therapist to attend your premises
(c) Allowing a nail technician, beauty or massage therapist todetermine the best way to provide any treatment to customer users or which products are most suitable for customer users
(d) Manage payments, fees and charges
(e) Collect and recover money owed to us/or the nail technician, beauty or massage therapist and/or customer users (such as for a refund) Identity, Contact, Financial, Transaction, Marketing and Communications, Usage To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey Identity, Contact, Profile, Marketing and Communications
Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
Third-party marketing
Opting out
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us because of a service purchase, service experience or other transaction.
Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy at the bottom of this page.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, where this is required or permitted by law.
5. Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
6. Data retention
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By law we must keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
7. Your legal rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
· Request access to your personal data.
· Request correction of your personal data.
· Request erasure of your personal data.
· Object to processing of your personal data.
· Request restriction of processing your personal data.
· Request transfer of your personal data.
· Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
THIRD PARTIES
External Third Parties
· Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.
o Stripe Inc is a global company we use to process online payments to the nail technician, beauty or massage therapists so that we can receive our commission. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy
o PayPal is a global company which we use to process online payments between customer users, nail technicians and beauty or massage therapists through our website. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
o Mailchimp is a global company which we use for email marketing. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
o Squarespace is a global company which we use we use to process bookings between customers nail technicians and beauty or massage therapists through our website. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
8. Cookie Policy
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is stored on your computer, tablet or phone when you visit a website. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.
There are two main types of cookie:
· session cookies—these are deleted when you finish browsing a website and are not stored on your computer longer than this.
· persistent cookies—these are stored on your computer after you have finished using a website so that the website provider can remember your preferences the next time you use it.
Cookies can be set by the website you have browsed, ie the website displayed in the uniform resource locator (URL) window. These are called first party cookies. Third party cookies are set by a website other than the one you are browsing.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
How do we use cookies?
· To estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
· To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests;
· To speed up your searches;
· To recognise you when you return to our site.
Consent
If you continue to use our Site we will assume that you are happy to receive all cookies from our website. However, if you would prefer to change your cookie settings, you can do so at any time—see below ‘Controlling our use of cookies’.
Controlling our use of cookies
Most browsers automatically accept cookies unless you change your internet browser settings. If you wish to restrict, block or delete the cookies which are set by any websites, you can generally do this through your browser settings. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your internet browser.
If you set your internet browser preferences to block all cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Cant find the answer you're looking for? Please head to our contact page, and we will be happy to help.
1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
5. DATA SECURITY
6. DATA RETENTION
7. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
8. COOKIE POLICY
1. Important information and who we are
Purpose of this privacy notice
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Yourtopia collects and processes your personal data through the use of our website booking service, as either a customer, nail technician, beauty or massage therapist, including any data you may provide through this website when you book or perform a treatment, sign up to our email subscription, interact with us on social media or take part in a competition or survey.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them. If you are a nail technician, beauty or massage therapist, we will also provide to you a copy of our staff and contractor privacy notice.
Controller
Yourtopia is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
2. The data we collect about you
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
· Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
· Special Category Personal Data includes details about your health (or race or religion if ever relevant to treatments requested or performed by you)
· Contact Data includes billing address, address at which you want the treatment to take place, email address and telephone numbers.
· Financial Data includes bank account (or similar, such as Paypal, as might be relevant from time to time) and payment card details.
· Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you as either a client, nail technician or beauty or massage therapist.
· Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.
· Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, and services as a client, nail technician and beauty or massage therapist.
· Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use, and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
If you fail to provide personal data
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter with you (for example, to provide you with a service). In this case, we may have to cancel a service you have booked with us (such as withdrawing your registration as a customer or nail
technician, beauty, or massage therapist, although that should only be in rare cases), but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
3. How is your personal data collected?
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact details by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by phone or email. This includes personal data you provide when you:
· make or accept an appointment;
· purchase or sign up to our services;
· complète Our consultation forms
· request marketing to be sent to you
· enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
· give us some feedback directly through our website or through our nail technicians, beauty or massage therapists.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
· Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU;
· Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services such as:
o Stripe Inc is a global company we use to process online payments to the nail technician, beauty or massage therapists so that we can receive our commission. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy
o PayPal is a global company which we use to process online payments between customer users, nail technicians and beauty or massage therapists through our website. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
o Mailchimp is a global company which we use for email marketing. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
o Squarespace is a global company which we use we use to process bookings between customers nail technicians and beauty or massage therapists through our website. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy
4. How we use your personal data?
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
· Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
· Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
· Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending third party direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by contacting us.
Purposes for which we will use your personal data
We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.
Purpose/Activity Type of data To register you as a new customer or nail technician, beauty or massage therapist. Identity ,Contact, Financial, Profile, Marketing and Communications To process and deliver your service to your client, including:
(a) Allocating the correct therapist to provide the treatment to you as the customer user and introducing you to your customer user client as the nail technician, beauty or massage therapist
(b) Allowing the nail technician, beauty or massage therapist to attend your premises
(c) Allowing a nail technician, beauty or massage therapist todetermine the best way to provide any treatment to customer users or which products are most suitable for customer users
(d) Manage payments, fees and charges
(e) Collect and recover money owed to us/or the nail technician, beauty or massage therapist and/or customer users (such as for a refund) Identity, Contact, Financial, Transaction, Marketing and Communications, Usage To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey Identity, Contact, Profile, Marketing and Communications
Marketing
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising.
Promotional offers from us
We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which services and offers may be relevant for you (we call this marketing).
You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
Third-party marketing
Opting out
Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us because of a service purchase, service experience or other transaction.
Cookies
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy at the bottom of this page.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, where this is required or permitted by law.
5. Data security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
6. Data retention
How long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
By law we must keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Request erasure below for further information.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
7. Your legal rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
· Request access to your personal data.
· Request correction of your personal data.
· Request erasure of your personal data.
· Object to processing of your personal data.
· Request restriction of processing your personal data.
· Request transfer of your personal data.
· Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
THIRD PARTIES
External Third Parties
· Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services.
o Stripe Inc is a global company we use to process online payments to the nail technician, beauty or massage therapists so that we can receive our commission. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy
o PayPal is a global company which we use to process online payments between customer users, nail technicians and beauty or massage therapists through our website. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
o Mailchimp is a global company which we use for email marketing. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
o Squarespace is a global company which we use we use to process bookings between customers nail technicians and beauty or massage therapists through our website. Their privacy policy can be accessed here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
8. Cookie Policy
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is stored on your computer, tablet or phone when you visit a website. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.
There are two main types of cookie:
· session cookies—these are deleted when you finish browsing a website and are not stored on your computer longer than this.
· persistent cookies—these are stored on your computer after you have finished using a website so that the website provider can remember your preferences the next time you use it.
Cookies can be set by the website you have browsed, ie the website displayed in the uniform resource locator (URL) window. These are called first party cookies. Third party cookies are set by a website other than the one you are browsing.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
How do we use cookies?
· To estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
· To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests;
· To speed up your searches;
· To recognise you when you return to our site.
Consent
If you continue to use our Site we will assume that you are happy to receive all cookies from our website. However, if you would prefer to change your cookie settings, you can do so at any time—see below ‘Controlling our use of cookies’.
Controlling our use of cookies
Most browsers automatically accept cookies unless you change your internet browser settings. If you wish to restrict, block or delete the cookies which are set by any websites, you can generally do this through your browser settings. These settings are usually found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your internet browser.
If you set your internet browser preferences to block all cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
Cant find the answer you're looking for? Please head to our contact page, and we will be happy to help.