Cookies policy

Cookies Policy

last updated: 30 September 2017

WHAT ARE COOKIES

Cookies are small data files which are stored on your device. They created when you visit a website and allow the website to recognise a particular device or browser.

There are several types of cookies:

First-party cookies are created by the website your are visiting.
Third-party cookies are set by a third party website, like advertising networks, separate from the website you are visiting.
Session cookies or transient cookie. The session cookie is stored in temporary memory and expired at the end of your browser session.
Persistent cookies are stored on your device until they expire (persistent cookies are set with expiration dates) or until the user deletes the cookies.

When you visit or interact with swapific.co.uk we may use two types of cookies: 'Session cookies' to allow us to link your actions during that particular browser session and 'Persistent cookies' to allow us to remember your preferences and recognise you when you return to our website.

Before the swapific.co.uk website stores cookies on your device, you will be presented with a message bar requesting your consent to set those cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of cookies, you are enabling swapific.co.uk to provide a better experience and service to you. Our cookies are either necessary for the functioning of swapific.co.uk, give you extra functionalities, help us improve our website's performance or help us to serve you relevant and targeted ads.

You may, if you wish, choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings. However, our website may not function fully or as intended and this can affect how you are able to interact with our website and could include the inability to login and use our website.

OUR USE OF COOKIES

Our use of cookies fall into the general categories below.

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the swapific.co.uk website. They allow you access to our website's services, tools and functions such as shopping-carts; they required to prevent fraudulent activity and improve security.
Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us to assess the performance of our website, to recognise and count the number of our users and help us understand how they use our website, or to improve the way our website works.
Functionality cookies. These are used to identify you when you sign into our website, personalise our content for you, and remember your specified preferences, interests, or past items viewed.
Advertising/Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We may use first-party advertising-related cookies and/or third-party advertising-related cookies to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

If you would like to opt-out of our cookies use you may do so by deleting, blocking, or disabling them as your browser or device permits. Most browsers have a configuration screen which allows the user to see what cookies have been stored on the computer, and optionally to delete them. The preferences for each browser you use will need to be set separately and different browsers offer different functionality and configuration options.

Opting out of our first-party advertising-related cookies, or out of third-party advertising-related cookies, does not necessarily mean that you will not see our advertising - our advertising will not be targetted to you through the use of first-party or third-party cookies.

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING PARTNERS AND INTEREST-BASED ADS

We also use third party advertising networks (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) to display advertisments on swapific.co.uk. These third party advertising networks may also use technologies such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our website to collect information that helps them determining your preferences in order to deliver interest-based advertising and other targeted content to you.

We do not provide any personally identifiable information to our third party advertising partners, but they may combine the non-personally identifiable information collected on our website with personally identifiable information they collect directly from you or receive from other sources.

We do not have access to or control over the information collection technologies that these third party advertising networks or any third party websites may use, and the information practices of these third party advertising networks and third party websites are subject to these parties' respective privacy policies, not our Privacy Policy.

With the exception of the use of cookies by our third-party advertising partners, we do not permit any third-party content on swapific.co.uk (such as swap ads, swap offers, member-to-member communications etc.) to include or utilise any cookies, or to collect your personal information. If you believe an ad or other third-party content might be collecting personal information or using tracking technologies on swapific.co.uk, please report it to here.

Information on third-party advertising-related cookies and how to opt-out of them can be found on third party websites below

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