Cookie Policy
Our website – Storyofyourday.co.uk/com – uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks, such as Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies we use on our website
Website Function Cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Allowing you to add comments to our site
WordPress, the software that runs this website, may also use cookies when you comment on a blog post to identify you on return visits. We do not use this information for any other reason.
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Analytical/performance cookies
They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use Storyofyourday.co.uk/com We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements, for example improving site search.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit on Storyofyourday.co.uk/com
- how long you spend on each Storyofyourday.co.uk/com page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We do not collect or store your personal information so this information cannot be used to identify who you are.
We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data, but Google Analytics set their own cookies
Targeting cookies.
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
This website uses a widget from ShareThis which facilitates the sharing of pages/ links from this website across various social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. ShareThis cookies track your use of social media buttons on Storyofyourday.co.uk/com.
Doubleclick.net cookie collects data to measure any viewed or clicked adverts (if any published) and is tracked by Google Analytics.
Vimeo and YouTube
We use external video services to host videos on this website. Whilst we have done what we can to limit data collection, this type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where videos are embedded, even when you do not watch it.
We embed videos from either our official YouTube channel or Vimeo channel using YouTube or Vimeo’s privacy-enhanced mode and this cookie recognises playbacks. It does not store personally-identifiable cookie information.
This cookie is used to deliver YouTube inline adverts or related Vimeo videos more relevant to you and your interests.
YouTube is a video service provided by Google that allows this website to embed video content. You can read YouTube’s Privacy Policy here.
Vimeo is a video service provided by Vimeo, LLC that allows this website to incorporate video content on its pages.
Vimeo sets a number of cookies on any page that embeds a Vimeo video. While we have no control over these cookies, they appear to include a mixture of pieces of information to measure the number and behaviour of Vimeo viewers, to hold information about current viewing video settings as well as a personal identification token, if you are logged into Vimeo.
If you want to prevent this transmission and storage of data by Vimeo about you and your behaviour on our website, you must log out of Vimeo before you visit our site. Vimeo’s Privacy Policy provides more detailed information concerning this, in particular regarding the collection and use of data by Vimeo.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of ours and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
All cookies will expire after 8 months
For further information on cookies generally visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.