Cookies and Privacy
Cookies explained
Cookies are small files which can be placed on your computer by webpages to hold pieces of information which can be later retrieved. There are basically two main types of cookies, one being called session or transient cookies and the other being called permanent or persistent. The session type of cookie is only saved into the computer’s memory and it will be removed if you close down your browsers. The persistent type of cookie is saved onto your computer’s hard drive and is given an ‘expiration’ date by the code that stores it and it will remain on your hard drive until that date, unless you manually delete it yourself. There are more details on the different types of cookies there are and their uses here. Some of the common uses of cookies are for counting how many unique people are viewing particular content or for holding some form of ‘userid’ to recognise and individual returning to a website and show them personallised content. Some cookies are stored in plain text, others are encrypted, like those placed on your computer by online banks.
Usage of cookies on this website
On Visitattractions.co.uk we add Google Analytics code to our pages. This code enables the Google Analytics tool we use to collect information regarding the visitors to our site and their usage of our pages. We do make sure that your IP address is anonymised. You can disable the placing of these cookies, if you wish, by going to the Google analytics opt-out page and installing the browser addon there.
The Visitattractions.co.uk website may also contain adverts in the form of banners and ads created by third parties, including Google, which could also contain cookies. Third party cookies can also be encountered when clicking any links we have that go to external websites (not owned by Visitattractions.co.uk). Our links to vendor websites go via 3rd party companies. These companies pass traffic from one website to another and keep a note of those customers usually by using a cookie. Then if those customers make a purchase, on the vendor’s website, a commission is awarded to the owner of the website that referred them.
Although Visitattractions.co.uk does not used personalised ads other third party vendors, including Google, might. To block these you can update your settings for Google here.
Options in your browser to control cookies
You can change the settings in your browser to prevent any cookies getting stored on your computer, or you can set it so you don’t allow certain types of cookies to be stored. This page contains information on how to get to those options within your particular browser. Alternately this page shows you how to use your browser options to delete the cookies that are on your computer at the moment.
Cookie Law
This statement is to comply with the law which came into force on the 26th May 2011 regarding cookies and their use on EU websites. Cookie Law at AboutCookies.org has extra information on this law should you wish to find out more.
Data Protection and Privacy Policy
In compliance with UK data protection laws (our country of residence) this policy informs you of any personal information that is gathered by the Visitattractions.co.uk website and how we use and protect it.
Our webserver may automatically collect information about your IP address. This data is logged when requests for webpages are processed. This data is used only for internal purposes of analysing usage of the Visitattractions.co.uk website and is not passed onto any third parties.
We collect the e-mail addresses and potentially names of those who communicate with us via e-mail. This information is held for internal use only and then discarded.
Visitattractions.co.uk contains links to third party websites. If you follow any link to an external website it is your responsibility to check their websites cookies & privacy policies before submitting any personal data to their website.
This Cookie and Privacy statement only relates to Visitattractions.co.uk and not any sites that it links to. Other websites should have their own cookie and privacy policy statements.