COOKIE POLICY
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer by your browser. They’re used for many things, such as remembering whether you’ve visited the site before, so that you remain logged in – or to help us work out how many new website visitors we get each month.
They contain information about the use of your computer but don’t include personal information about you (they don’t store your name, for instance).
Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
This policy explains how cookies are used on our websites in general and how you can control the cookies that may be used on this site (please note that not all of them are used on every site).
About our Cookie policy
This Cookie Policy applies to all MC Publishing’s websites and mobile applications (“the Website”).
In this Cookie Policy, when we refer to any of our Websites, we mean any website or mobile application operated by or on behalf of MC Publishing Ltd, regardless of how you access the network. This Cookie Policy forms part of and is incorporated into our Website Terms and Conditions.
By accessing the Website, you agree that this Cookie Policy will apply whenever you access the Website on any device. We will alert you on our Websites when of changes to this policy. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to all such changes.
Cookies that we use
We use cookies for the following purposes:
Authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website
Status – we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website;
Forms – we use cookies to maintain the state of any form that you have partially completed – so may may return to it later
Security – we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;
Cookies used by our service providers
Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Managing cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies within the relevant user preferences area. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. To obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies on the most commonly used internet browsers, here are some links:
Google: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
Microsoft Edge: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
For cookie control on mobile devices then please refer to the documentation by searching for your devices online.
Blocking Cookies
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
Our details
This website is owned and operated by MC Publishing Ltd.
We are registered in England and Wales under registration number No. 4440255, and our registered office is at:
2 Princes Buildings
George Street
Bath BA1 2ED
Updated: May 2018